![]() ![]() Most of the game was built around trying to tell an engaging story. This is the case for The Suicide of Rachel Foster. The genre is mostly known for using the environment to help tell the story. Instead of focusing on the gameplay this genre generally puts their time into telling an engaging story and crafting an interesting environment to explore. The appeal of most walking simulators are their stories and overall atmosphere. Those that don’t mind the genre though should read on. If you have never really cared for the genre I see no reason why the game will change your mind. ![]() Basically your opinion of the game is going to depend on your opinion of walking simulators. The whole game is based around searching the hotel looking for clues. This should be evident pretty early based on how slow your character moves as the run is barely faster than the normal walk. There are no action packed sequences that require precise actions to be taken, and there are minimal puzzles to solve. In many ways it feels more like an interactive story than a traditional video game. The Suicide of Rachel Foster is not the type of game that you play for its gameplay. I expected this going into the game and it pretty much delivered exactly what I was expecting. Simply put there isn’t much to The Suicide of Rachel Foster’s gameplay. The gameplay still basically boils down to just walking around and interacting with objects. You will eventually get access to a couple of tools that help you explore the hotel. The gameplay is pretty basic as you mostly just walk around the hotel while exploring and searching for clues on what happened ten years earlier. It does a pretty good job describing the gameplay though. I generally hate that term as it is pretty dismissive of the genre which is built mostly around its story and atmosphere rather than its gameplay. Can you finally discover the truth to what happened to Rachel Foster ten years ago?Īs I mentioned earlier The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a walking simulator. As the two explore the hotel they discover that the events of ten years ago might not have gone down exactly as everyone first thought. As she has nowhere to go she starts to investigate the hotel with the help of a FEMA agent named Irving who talks with her over the telephone. She ends up trapped at the hotel as a blizzard hits the area to the point where she isn’t able to leave for several days. Before she is able to sell the hotel Nicole is forced to visit and examine the hotel before she signs the paperwork to sell it. In her will her mother tells her to sell the family hotel and give the money to Rachel’s family to make up for what happened ten years earlier. The story picks up ten years later after her mother dies. After finding out about the affair Nicole and her mother left her father. Nicole was a happy teenager until her whole life was overturned when it was discovered that her father Leonard had an affair with Rachel Foster a teenage girl around Nicole’s age which ended in a pregnancy. The Suicide of Rachel Foster takes place in 1993. The Suicide of Rachel Foster tells an interesting and pretty dark mystery that is compelling for fans of good game stories even if the gameplay is a little lacking and the story has a few missteps along the way. While I never checked out The Suicide of Rachel Foster when it originally came out, the game was released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One a couple days ago which gave me the opportunity to check it out on PlayStation 4. While I wouldn’t call it my favorite genre, I appreciate it as I enjoy games that actually put a lot of effort into their stories. The genre has a pretty big fanbase though of people that want a video game that tells a truly compelling story. A lot of people hate the genre as the gameplay is usually pretty limited due to the games generally relying more on storytelling. ![]() The walking simulator is arguably one of the most controversial video game genres. ![]() Released back in February of this year The Suicide of Rachel Foster had a pretty successful launch for the walking simulator genre. ![]()
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