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Edith finch3/28/2023 ![]() ![]() To call What Remains of Edith Finch a game may be slightly disingenuous it’s more of a storybook. In What Remains of Edith Finch, Edith moves from room to room, reading the stories of each demise and piecing together her family history, hoping the house will give up its secrets. The truth about those deaths was always a murky area for Edith her mom didn’t like talking about the past, and the stories told by her grandma Edie were difficult to believe. The Finches have always believed themselves to be under a curse, and they all died long before their time - sometimes mysteriously, sometimes tragically. Her entire family is gone, though that's no spoiler. You play as the titular Finch, returning home for the first time in seven years. Those lives, experienced through brief flashbacks, make you love those people just enough to genuinely miss them when you remember they’re gone. What Remains of Edith Finch is a very sad game, because it does the hard work of letting you get to know each member of the Finch family before taking them away. Grief is more easily evoked - kill off a favorite character and boom, your player is sad and angry and hurt and all the things that come with a loss.īut true sadness, inextricably interwoven with love, is not such an easy lever to pull. Sadness is a difficult thing to convey convincingly in a game. Its previous game, The Unfinished Swan, is about a young boy coming to terms with the death of his mother. ![]() I expected What Remains of Edith Finch to be weird and vaguely menacing, but instead found it to be heartbreakingly sweet.ĭeveloper Giant Sparrow is no stranger to sadness.
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