What Was Firewatch Actually About Anyways? 

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Fun fact: the Firewatch team were hired to work on Half-Life: Alyx

This guy’s gonna go big

"She's sick, and I shouldn't be here but I am." "I'm sorry Henry what is is?"

Throughout this game, you never see anyone, at all, you only talk to Delilah on your radio, with a charismatic personality which leads you to develop a sort of relationship, and once it finally leads up to seeing her at the end, she is gone. That was a hard punch

I like at the end of the game: its not “escape the fire” or “get rescued” its “go home” and that’s perfect

I don’t know you tell me

I was obsessed with this game when it came out and dug myself deep into the community and the different theories that cropped up after its release. I was surprised to see this video from this channel after subscribing when I watched the TF2 video. This was a great deep dive into a game that I know left me and a lot of other people asking more questions than the amount of answers that we got. Great Analysis and I didn't lose interest at all during this video. Absolutely great.

“Moving on” and leaving Julia before she dies is not what “for better or worse” really means though. To do so is to sell out the promise we make to our marriage partner. For me, Henry taking the job was Henry running away from the pain. I totally understand why he did it of course, but that doesn’t change his betrayal of Julia into anything other than what it really was. A betrayal. Many a man has sat beside a dying partner, however long and painful the journey. THAT is why Delilah said he needed to see her again. Epic game.

I really wish this game was longer. There's so much more that could happen over the course of the summer.

Alzheimers is a terminal disease. I would have stayed with my wife until she died. From her symptoms it sounded like her end was near.

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“What I know about Henry”

What I loved about Firewatch (aside from the great dialogues & voice actors and the stunning atmosphere in those woods) is how it messes with the player and the expactations everyone has in video games. There's all of this mysterious stuff happening, and you are like "There HAS to be some sort of conspiracy, a nerve-wrecking plot twist, it's a video game after all!". And even the game itself contributes to that by the comments Henry and Delilah make.

I had a powerful experience playing this game, the discovery of the old man's cave was at first to me confusing, but the more time I spent there picking up objects, I slowly pieced it together; then Delilah rejecting the main character at the end really tied it all together - the stories our minds tell us are sometimes far from reality, but the underlying truth which prompts us to think of those stories is always close to home in the end. It's so easy to get wrapped up in an exciting fantasy, and ironically, that's usually what you do in games; but not this one, you learn all too quickly how plain and sad the real story always is. A story like this could really teach people to be more grounded and mature, as it did for me. Loved your analysis; really lined up with how I interpreted the events despite my eyes rolling at seeing the title - glad I gave it a watch. Thanks for rekindling my love for this story!

Dementia is really depressing. Almost feels like you losing a person you love, losing your own being.

It was about having huge hands.

Chris Remo the guy who did the soundtrack just helps the story with his music, change my mind.

I remember how everybody was mad about the ending because they expected to get something supernatural, or conspiracy or something that wouldn't usually happen in real life which will shock the player. But that wasn't the point of the game. It was, as you already pointed out, paranoia. The game even makes you paranoiac which leads you to think there's just something abnormal is going on, while actually almost everything we encounter can be explained in a simpler way. At the end of the game, i was actually shocked in a way i almost never experienced before in an entertainment medium. I was shocked because i realized i was paraoinac. Everything suddenly made sense because, simply, there wasn't a conspiracy behind them. And that's something you usually don't get as an ending message in a video game or movie. Movies and games aim to pull you off from real life to drift you into a world of fantasy, where everything is exaggarated and beyond-real. Firewatch shocked me because while i was expecting (and lowcase wanted) an interesting conspiracy, it slapped me in the face that life is not full of interesting conspiracies. It was hard to swallow that seeing the bittersweet reality of life was more dissapointing than my worst conspiracy theory. That also, in a way, made me understand how people fall into weirdest conspiracy theories in real life.

you forgot to answer the most important question in this game: why does the sun rise in the west and set in the east. I have some art from this game as wallpaper and it drives me mad.