Many players guessed right off the bat that Rachel was actually murdered, especially those already familiar with these narrative-driven style games.less than ideal in an Environmental Narrative Game (considering that getting invested in the plot and characters is the whole point of games in this genre). Needless to say, having your audience largely unable to connect with your protagonists or sympathise with their situation is. The fact that the game never really interrogates the validity of 49-year-old Leonard's romantic and sexual relationship with 16-year-old Rachel and in fact ends by chastising Nicole for not unquestioningly supporting their "true love" was enough to put a lot of players off the story. Audience-Alienating Premise: One of the main cruxes of the plot is Leonard and Rachel's affair.Both protagonists abruptly committing suicide, or alternatively Nicole going insane, also made the whole thing seem pointless and unnecessarily bleak to some players. Audience-Alienating Ending: Lots of players have stated they didn't mind the game's plot and could've viewed it as a decent Environmental Narrative Game if it weren't for the ending, due to it never actively condemning Leonard's actions and instead pushing all the blame on his wife while she is certainly guilty of killing Rachel, the narrative glosses over the married Leonard having an inappropriate relationship with a teenager, and even seems to present him sympathetically.Or perhaps Claire acted purely from spite, having already decided to leave Leonard but wanting to deny him a chance at happiness with Rachel. Why did Claire murder Rachel and go to the effort of making it look like a suicide when she ultimately left her husband anyway? Perhaps Claire deluded herself into believing it would all go back to normal after Rachel was gone (maybe she didn't even intend for the body to be found, with it being four weeks before Rachel's remains were discovered) only to realize she couldn't stomach staying with her cheating husband in a town where she and her daughter were constantly harassed (especially given Leonard continued to fixate on Rachel).It really doesn't help that at the time of Rachel's death she'd been having sex with Leonard for nine months, meaning she was possibly only 15 when the affair began (which would make it statutory rape). Many players interpret Leonard as having taken advantage of a lonely and troubled teenager and insists it was love to justify it to himself, while Rachel was likely starved for affection and approval from an adult. Was Leonard and Rachel's relationship genuine love, or did he abuse her? Leonard insists it was the former, with Irving and eventually Nicole agreeing with this interpretation, but many players view it as abuse, pointing out that Rachel was not only young enough to be Leonard's daughter and barely old enough to consent, she was extremely vulnerable her father was excessively strict with high expectations, she was bullied at school, and she was seeking tutoring from Leonard due to her dyslexia and speech impediment, spending long hours alone with him. A story of love and death, where melancholy and nostalgia melt into a thrilling ghost tale. With his help, Nicole starts to investigate a mystery far deeper than what people in the valley thought. As the weather unexpectedly turns for the worst, Nicole has no way to leave the large mountain lodge, and finds support in Irving, a young FEMA agent, using one of the first radio telephones ever built. With the will and determination to put that chapter behind her, she returns to the hotel with the family's lawyer to audit the decaying structure. Now that both of her parents have passed, Nicole hopes to fulfill her mother's last will to sell the hotel and make amends to Rachel's relatives. 1993 - LEWIS & CLARK COUNTY, MONTANA, US Ten years ago, teenager Nicole and her mother left the family hotel after discovering her father Leonard's affair with, and pregnancy of Rachel, a girl her own age who eventually committed suicide. Ten years ago, teenager Nicole and her mother left the family Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth. Summary: Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.
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