Delilah :(

[WARFAR]

This is one of the BEST yet MOST DEPRESSING games i have ever played. Why couldn`t there be a happier ending whit Delilah? :(

If you want to feel bad and depressed for a week this is the game for you. The two main caracters and their dialauge is so good, love Delilah`s personality, wish there was a happier ending.

This game is basiclly an amazing, but very depressing story. Probably why it was 10% off...

[CosmicD]

yes that hit a nerve with me, I can't really go into it too deep or I'll be just sad. You can make the ending a bit more uplifting though.


But you know, it still ends in male tears, and she drinks them, Maybe unintentionally but still... it's so emotionally devastating if you're a sensitive person.

Perhaps some people won't respond to the way the story goes, you can avoid alot of that with conversation but it makes me so sad that I just replayed until day 2 or 3 and then stopped because I don't want to remember :P

[Kyrah Abattoir]

As the devs mentioned in an interview, they tried several times to setup a scene where she would have stayed, and the more fleshed out her character was, the more they realised that it was going against everything she does and is.

They would have done it because the players wanted it, not because it corresponded to the character she is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0WX2S1w1E&feature=youtu.be&t=2858
at 47:38

[CosmicD]

I was about to write this as a respons on the firewatch wiki to somebody with the same sentiments, so I wrote that down and I was still in the editing field, when I came here and choose to probably reply

So after giving this some thought I come to the following conclusion, and it hits me on how it's the same as what the devs think, and it's actually a very powerful message.


I felt played by her but actually this isn't really something that you have to blame on HER. And it's not personal. You project it too much on yourself as a player if you feel down because of that. (and my god did I feel down), But in the story, she is very well aware that the main protagonist has a wife and so she holds back. Delilah has much class! And the protagonist should be thankful for that.

It's one of these occasions where the affection with world NPC's you have "as the observer" clearly becomes an affliction and conflicts with the story.YOU (the gamer) have this potential crush/relationship with D where you really want to meet her and she denies you that, and you can make henry feel sad about this as well (or lighten up the last conversation) but the mutual interchangability stops there. He might feel sad about not meeting her. You can think she's witty and sarcastic and likes YOU and grows on YOU (the gamer) and assume she wants to meet YOU. But her moral limit is not your moral limit as the player, it's towards Henry's. And as the dev says she wants out.

She is a legendary lady simply because she doesn't forget that "Henry" has a disabled wilfe he has to care for. And so this firewatch crush isn't meant to last. If Delilah was a disrespectful ♥♥♥♥♥, she would have acted on it. But she isn't, so slow clap generator for her.

And this is a very powerful lesson for people who are really in that situation. And it leaves the player somwhat in male tears (even me at this point) :) That's what's beautiful about this ending.

[shieldgenerator7]

The part about having a loved one go insane and in the hospital had the biggest impact on me. It's really heartbreaking.

[CosmicD]

I know this situation intimately but it's not my wife (I'm single) it's a relative. So my dispair as a player was "please Delilah notice me and take me in your arms" but nope.. DENIED... then coming to that realisation that this is far too cheesy and I'd rather remember the sarcastic relationship we had.

[CosmicD]

oh Delilah, you.........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKFxN1tukg


This video makes me understand, not even because of what's said about the events in the video, but the connection I make with june fire, D's talking behind Henry's back saying "he doesn't have a clue" and then wanting him to burn everything down in wapiti station,

and her not wanting to meet henry at the end, it all makes sense now.

Bye ♥♥♥♥♥ :P

[yusupov]

Originally posted by Kyrah Abattoir:

As the devs mentioned in an interview, they tried several times to setup a scene where she would have stayed, and the more fleshed out her character was, the more they realised that it was going against everything she does and is.

They would have done it because the players wanted it, not because it corresponded to the character she is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0WX2S1w1E&feature=youtu.be&t=2858
at 47:38

im going to have to check that out. i agree w/ them but i wonder if they also agree delilah was also just not a person youd want to be in a significant relationship with. didnt like her as a person much at all & its unclear to me why i dont see that impression (actually havent seen it at all) from people whove finished the game.