Firewatch is a first-person single-player mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
I played this back in August 2021 and just found some screenshots. I enjoyed it as a game but my over-riding memory is this:
Basically, the protagonist is a shit.
Also, very, very lazy effort on the stars:
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A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
I had very fond memories of this but, actually, it’s pretty bad. There is a super high body count, though!
★★
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic—a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Simultaneously total 1 ⭐️ timey-wimy bollocks and a 5 ⭐️ masterpiece of such ambitious extent you’ll be mulling it over for days afterwards.
★★½
The year is 1988. Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. After an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different, which leads Abby to suspect her best friend may be possessed by a demon. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
I wanted to like this but there is very little to recommend it. I have never used the word ‘pastiche’ in my life but it is perfect here.
Watch Jennifer’s Body instead.
★★
A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.
