![]() ![]() You play the eldest Greenbriar daughter, Kaitlin, who returns from a gap year in Europe one dark and stormy night to find the family's new house deserted and dotted with cryptic Post-It notes from her sister Samantha. Three years on, Gone Home's cast of fully developed female characters remains sadly unusual in video games. ![]() This is a troubled kind of reverence, however, because Gone Home is also a charming if familiar tale about how our belongings may come to define and limit us, a lesson about the periodic necessity of letting everything go - and, without wanting to sound too bookish, a clever excavation of the operations of sexuality and gender within a white, middle class American family in the 1990s. I carefully replaced a scrunched-up manuscript page on the floor next to a bin after reading it, for example, wary of disturbing the scene in however trivial a fashion. Even the Greenbriar family's garbage has an aura of sanctity. But in Gone Home every object is a belonging, and the game cultivates enough sympathy for its cast that meddling with their effects comes to feel indecent. They exist to be barged into and ransacked, their incidental furnishings trampled or smashed in the quest for loot. Houses in video games are seldom treated with this level of courtesy. #Gone home ps4 Ps4#Availability: Released this week on PS4 and Xbox One in Europe.Gone Home has many ways of pulling on the player's heartstrings - especially if you're of a certain age, and given to welling up at the sight of button badges, or the lush click of cassette player buttons - but one of the game's most affecting tactics is simply that it lets you put objects back, exactly as you found them, with a context-sensitive input. Letters to Katie, found by opening Sam's Journal in the Attic.Witty and melancholic, Gone Home is a triumphant exploration of a beautifully textured family space.I Said Yes, found by looking at the drawing on the futon in the Attic.In the Attic, found by picking up the Attic Key in the Foyer Secret Room. ![]()
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