Firewatch's Ending is pretty Anti-Climatic (Spoilers)

[roguesquirrel]

I liked what the ending was going for, but i felt really miffed by it because it was the one time in the game where it felt i was picking dialogue options and what Henry spat out was VASTLY different than what i intended with the prompt. It left me in a really weird spot when the credits rolled.

 

[Icemonk191]

It's a great ending. The game is about how trying to run away from and ignore your problems is a bad thing. If the conspiracy turned out to be real, or if Henry's relationship with Delilah went anywhere, that would fly in the face of the game's central theme. The ending disappoints because nothing good was going to come of Henry abandoning his deteriorating wife.

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The fact that so many people obviously don't understand the theme of this game honesty baffles me. In a weird way It's kinda a good litmus test to see if people can understand art or not.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

It is purposefully disappointing but that didn't make me feel any better about it when I got there.

 

[caylen]

The ending wasn't incredibly impactful for myself, but I thought it was an extremely worthwhile story & game to experience, and the conclusion felt very poignant. It was a deliberate, purposeful ending, and I dug that & the nebulousness about the lives beyond the summer we rangered.

The first two chapters of the game really, really resonated with me, as did the setting & pace of the story itself. Totally see why it's decisive, though!

 

[Calvarok]

it would have been uninteresting without the twist but the way it happened was still only just a little bit more interesting.