Wow. Literally had to put the controller down to collect myself. Think I'm done with this game for the night.

Yea. Talk about a kick in the balls to start off. Kind of like the beginning of Up.

It's very creative and well done for sure. Unfortunately I don't feel the rest of game holds up its end of the bargain.

Brought back painful memories of my grandmother. I think the reason it hit me so hard is because I pretty much did the same thing, though to a far lesser extent.

It's a real shame to have to open with that sequence, because it makes it impossible for the rest of the game to live up to. The game is fantastic, but that opening brought me feelings unlike anything I've played outside of that part in the walking dead season 1 episode 3 (which shares the same writer).

I nearly shed some tears.

Honestly I hugged my wife after playing through the intro.

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I felt the intro was a little heavy handed. I would have rather have had Henry's backstory revealed throughout the game. It would have had more time to build instead of dumping all that information on the player within the first 5 mins. I've had family members struggle with that disease and I wasn't as much affected as I was put off.

man, just played the intro, what a fucking gutpunch.

studying to be a nurse and seeing the effects of dementia so very frequently, this kind of hit close.

I was my Dad's carer for 3 years when he was diagnosed with Alzheimers. This intro really hit home for me.

I felt this way too. Honestly, I've never been a fan of this style of intro (see: Up and Finding Nemo's is almost similar), and if I'd known the game was gonna pull that out of the gate (as opposed to the general tone I'd gotten from other stuff I'd seen) I may not have bought it.

I also currently have a family member going through this and it just felt like a "LOOK HOW SAD THIS IS" moment.

I'm afraid it's as linear as everyone says. You can't get to the spot where the key is 'till the plot progresses to that point. I'm not even sure how you'd continue the game from that? Definetly not by just them going on about their business for those remaining +70 days.

The intro definitely was a gut-wrenching one for me as well, which was a nice feat with how simplistic it was presented.

Yah..

Is it still considered politically in-correct by people to use my reaction to the opening along with the phrase "trigger warning?". Cause holy crap. It seems like everyone else got to continue on with the game, and good I'd rather people not have the same issue I do, but wow.

I think the 8 mins steam shows my having played this will be all it will ever show. But hey, I want games like this made so uh..I guess I tossed in money for the next game they make and/or the next game like it.

Isn't that bad for everyone else but man..just. Man.

I'm not a player who is receptive to emotional stimuli, but even from that perspective I think the intro was great. I feel like it did a truly amazing job of conveying to the player who Henry is as a person, not just in what happened to him but also the limitations on choices you can make. Sure, there's some wriggle room in how you can have him act, but just as much is conveyed by the answers you can't give. You absolutely can't have him move across the country for Julia's job. I felt like I had a stark impression of just who he was and where he was coming from by the end, and going into the meat of the game I had some firm opinions about him just from that stuff alone.