Reimagining the Firewatch Story

In this article, we will discuss a bit about the plot of Firewatch and its ending.

It's actually really sad that after building up such a close bond between Delilah and Henry, the two characters never meet at the end of the game. Hell, we can't even see their faces! It can be assumed that such an intriguing ending will delight us with the continuation of the game, but the story seems to be over. You can put a bold point, and this is a fact.

The story begins with the protagonist named Henry finding two teenage girls skinny-dipping in a lake and setting off fireworks. Soon their tent is torn apart, things are lying around. There are no girls, where could they have gone? A strange signal is heard on the shore of the lake. Following the sound, Henry finds a walkie-talkie, when he suddenly receives a serious blow to the head and faints.

Soon, Henry stumbles upon a small camp of scientists, where all the actions of Delilah and our hero are described in stages. Was someone following them? Have they been experimented on? Leaving this place, literally 300 meters away, we see that someone is setting it on fire. Someone reports that he has a tape of the conversation between Delilah and Henry, edited so that they wanted to hide the girls' story. They are being blackmailed.

In the end (SPOILER ATTENTION!!!) we learn that this was all done by a distraught father who accidentally killed his child and then decided to simply disappear into the woods of Wyoming. Out of nowhere, teenage girls appeared who just left the place. Further, Delilah and Henry are evacuated from here by helicopter. By the way, if you read our article about the endings of the game, you may know that Henry may even stay in the burning forest.

At the end of the game, we get a short and awkward farewell of the characters to each other over the walkie-talkie. And it's all???

On the other hand, the story of the game actually turned out to be intriguing. She kept me personally in suspense until the very end. But when it turned out that Ned caused the death of his son, all dreams were shattered. Everything began to look somehow cheap in my eyes. The whole final act of the game does not create a feeling of some kind of winning. You can’t jump out of a chair (from an armchair) and exclaim something like: “Hurrah! I won!". This is the ending (and both), which leaves a huge number of questions after itself, rather than giving definite answers. Something small and disappointing.

As I moved towards the extraction point, I was convinced that at least something else was bound to happen. Something that will throw a new light on the events taking place here, turn history around - but it never came to that.

Do not misunderstand me. I enjoyed my time playing Firewatch. But in my opinion, the writers were able to create this huge intriguing story, and then just ruined everything with a sharp and too straightforward ending. What do you think, did the story turn out to deserve a 10/10 rating?