NOCLIP Pocket E33 - The Accident Boat - Firewatch

There might be two naked podcasters out here. Thank you for joining
us again this week! We’re going to be talking about Firewatch, the
first and currently only game from Campo Santo. Firewatch is a
walking simulator mystery game set in a open world forest, but that
really doesn’t get to the meat of why you should play this game.
While the game world is beautifully designed, and it’s fun to
explore the forest, the key to the game’s success is in building a
relationship between yourself and the game’s other lead character
Delilah. Everything from scripting to the voice performances of the
lead actors really sells their dynamic and makes the character
exploration a real joy to play through, even though the narrative
itself is pretty troubling. And that’s the beauty of it. Firewatch
does a lot to put you in the headspace of its lead character,
making you really focus on the moment to moment little things that
are going on, while still being able to explore its big picture
themes in the time between conversations. Also, you can adopt a
turtle, which is pretty great too. We’re going to be talking about
how the A and B plots of the game intermingle and how the tone of
each effects how we feel about the game overall, visual style and
color, and a hypothetical short film version of Pixar’s Up. So
that’s Firewatch, possibly a couple years late, but it’s been on
the list for a while. Did you play this game at release, or at any
point over its releases on a bunch of different platforms over the
years? Were you aware that they were bought by Valve and if so, are
you as sad as we are that their next game seems to have been pretty
much shut down because of it? Let us know on our Discord, or in the
comments! Next time, we’re going to be tackling another indie game
in the form of Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery EP, so be sure to
check us out then.