3/16/2023 0 Comments Dear esther review ps4![]() You make your way across the island and you’re rewarded with more of his story. You’re eager to know more – which is good because that’s all this game is about doing. We’re hearing his deep, personal letters to his wife and you really end up feeling strongly for this man who you’ve never met. The emotion and the softness with which we’re told the narrative through the letters makes the player feel like they’ve known this man for their whole life. From the moment he stops talking you just want to hear more: the voice acting is spectacular. From the very beginning, you’re dumped on a deserted island with no one and nothing to guide you – no instructions or tutorial, just this man reading these heartfelt letters. Pushing the personal connection I feel aside though, the story is still magnificent. I recognise places he talked about, having visited them myself, and his story is a lot more vivid in my mind than it would be for someone else. Also, maybe the fact that the man is British and the South West of England, where I personally live, is mentioned in his story, I feel a stronger connection than someone in America would feel. Somewhat boring gameplay aside though, I cannot fault the beauty of Dear Esther. In a game like this which is so heavily about exploring, not being able to jump and explore more than the set path is aggravating. As a gamer, you want more to a game than just walking slowly – there wasn’t even a run button. The entire time I was playing, just out of instinct, I would walk up to something – say an abandoned boat – and attempt to jump to it even though I knew full well that this wasn’t possible and pressing every button on my controller would not change the fact that they all just zoomed in. This pretty much sums up the gameplay of Dear Esther. ![]() ![]() There’s no puzzles, no tasks, no combat and little of anything else – and while this may not seem like a conventional idea, and frankly when it’s written down it sounds like a boring one, Dear Esther has a charm about it that cannot be disregarded.Įvery single button on your PS4 controller, except for the D-pad and analogue sticks, is used to zoom in on minute details that you see in the game including cave paintings, various unusual things in the distance and some notes and maps at the beginning of the game. Developed by The Chinese Room and published by Curve Digital, ‘Dear Esther: Landmark Edition’ is a first person exploration game where the player makes their way across an island listening to a man read letters he wrote to his deceased wife. Going in with little to no knowledge of what the game was, I’ve come out the other side with a feeling of being pleasantly surprised and sadly underwhelmed. After its first release in 2012, which was met with mixed reviews and controversy due to the origins of the game itself, Dear Esther is back on our screens. ![]()
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