Video game dear esther full#
It can take up between six to eight full runs in order to have heard every fragment of narration at least once.ĭespite the fragmented narration, the overall story told by the Narrator has a few consistancies: the Narrator tells the story of how, after leaving the hospital for kidney stone surgery, he and Esther were involved in a car crash with a man named Paul, resulting in Esther's death. This results in the narration to somewhat lack coherency, forcing the player to draw their own conclusions to the story and making the game replayable. Each fragment is semi-randomly generated, with each location have between two to four variations in narration, which changes each time the player restarts the game again. These fragments of narration are triggered as the player reaches various key locations along the path, typically when certain landmarks are in view, or when the player approaches those same landmarks.
Video game dear esther series#
Throughout the player's journey across the island, a disembodied narrator speaks, reading aloud fragments from a series of letters to a woman named Esther (It is not directly specified who the Narrator is, but it is generally believed that he is Esther's husband, as well as the player character).
The player walks up the cliff path towards the beacon and, upon reaching it, climbs to the top of the tower and leaps off the cliff, taking flight and flying around the island and across the bay before the game ends, fading to black. From here the player character makes their way out of the cave, falling down more shafts before having a vision of a motorway, completely sunk underwater, before awakening on a moonlit beach beneath a cliff, where a radio beacon stands. The player walks past the lighthouse, along a cliff edge, past a beach strewn with shipwrecks, and various abandoned buildings including an old bothy, until eventually they fall down a hole into a massive network of caves, lit by bioluminecent fungus. The game opens on an old pier in front of a long-abandoned lighthouse, and the player can begin walking around.
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