![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to learn more, read my full Firewatch Review at Geekdad. It doesn’t take very long to play Firewatch (it made the list of Vulture’s 21 Best Video games you can finish in 6 hours or less), so if you like video games and the outdoors, it’s definitely fun and worth checking out. There are moments that really touching, some that are heartbreaking, and a few that are a little terrifying. I sort of expected it to be an adventure game, and it has elements of that, but it’s also a game about loneliness, escaping, and humanity. I find it hard to believe that the character wouldn’t know this is for poop, but it’s played for humor value, so I can give it a soft pass. At one point Henry finds a trowel on a stump with some toilet paper. Especially when things starts to get a little spooky.įirewatch has some funny moments, too. But the scenery of the game is gorgeous and definitely evokes the feeling of being alone outdoors. This can become a little tedious - especially the second time through. In order to complete the various tasks that Delilah sends him on, Henry does a lot of walking through the woods. The choices you make during Henry’s talks with Delilah will determine the direction their relationship takes. Henry’s only real human contact is via walkie-talkie conversations with Delilah, his supervisor from the next mountain over. In Firewatch, you play the part of Henry, a gent who’s taken a job at a fire lookout tower in the secluded Wyoming wilderness in 1989. The designers of the game nailed the look and feel of both the inside and exterior of these towers spot on. I was even more thrilled when I got a look under the hood. No surprise, then, that I was a little excited - and perhaps a little skeptical - when I learned about Firewatch, a video game from Campo Santo. Firewatch, the Fire Lookout Tower Video Game The views from that tower were incredible, and I was fortunate to have experienced them. I was very sad when I’d heard it had been destroyed by fire. The last weekend the Needles Fire Lookout Tower stood vigil over the Golden Trout Wilderness. Most memorably, I visited Needles Lookout Tower in the Sequoia National Forest the weekend before it burned down in 2011. I’ve visited quite a few in California, but the first I ever visited was Vetter Mountain in the Angeles National Forest. It Starts With an Appreciation of Fire Lookout Towers ![]()
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