@sinjunb: Okay, but a lot of it still doesn't make sense. Ned was never reported missing by any family or friends? Brain had to have had a mother? That body would have been found pretty damn quickly being in a known cave, as well as Ned for hanging around that area. The whole mystery felt unrealistic, and as a result the way Delilah and Henry's relationship concluded did as well.
I also have gripes about how they never met up for lunch or something considering how close they were? At the end of that game I was baffled at how close her post was.
Also how does she cut off contact? Delilah said to deal with Julia, then maybe she could come down to Boulder to see Henry? Did I misinterpret that? Or you must mean her getting on the early chopper?
It really bothered me that it became some dumb mystery that ended up having no pay off as well as not making very much sense... The initial moments of the game, setting up this question of if it's wrong to fall in love with someone else while your spouse has dementia, a disease that kills the mind but not quite the body, was unbelievably interesting. It's one of those impossibly hard questions, and they really had me up until the morning after the Fire Naming Scene. The scene can play out very intimately and seems to start putting serious pressure on that question, then the game LITERALLY sucker punches you out of this character piece and into a mystery. The tricks with paranoia were at times very effective but overall it was a huge letdown that the story went that way.
The ending is something I'm still sitting on... Delilah leaves the whole relationship up in the air. He tells Henry to go see Julia and sort that out before seeing her, and that's completely fair, but why wouldn't she wait for Henry? He's wandering through smoke, alone, asking for her to stay and she leaves. I get that she sabotaged her relationship with Javier in the past but nothing else sets her personality up in a way that'd suggest she wouldn't stay, just in case. I guess it mostly makes sense, but I just felt like there was so much more left on the table to explore between the two. (Like instead of a mystery!)
At the end of the day, I loved certain parts about it a whole damn lot, but Firewatch is my biggest disappointment of the year so far.
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