Dear Esther: Landmark Edition 2018 (Developers Commentary) - Chapter 1 Lighthouse
5Video Content: We revisit Dear Esther and listen to the Developers Commentary to help provide answers to a ton of questions pertaining to the game, development and story. I add in my commentary along the way reflecting back on my experience and discuss my thoughts on the Developers comments.
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Dear Esther is a first-person exploration video game.
The "gameplay" in Dear Esther is minimal, the only object being to explore an uninhabited Hebridean island, listening to an anonymous man read a series of letter fragments to a woman named Esther. The letters suggest that Esther was his wife and that she is dead, killed in a car crash. As the player reaches a new location on the island, the game plays a new letter fragment relating to that area. Different fragments are played in each playthrough of the game, revealing different aspects of the story each time. Several other unseen characters are referred to by the narrator: a man named Donnelly, who charted the island in the past;[8] Paul, who is suggested to be the drunk driver in the accident in which Esther died;and a shepherd named Jakobson who lived on the island in the 18th century. As the player explores the island, they find the derelict remains of buildings, a shipwreck, and a cave system whose walls are adorned with images resembling chemical diagrams, circuit diagrams, neurons and bacteria. At various points a figure is seen walking away from the player in the distance, but disappears before they can be reached. The identities of the characters become more blurred as the game progresses, as the narration moves between topics and relates the characters in different ways. The ambiguity of the randomly played letter fragments forces the player to draw their own conclusions of the story.
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SDG currently has 298 views spread across 8 videos for Dear Esther. About 4 hours worth of Dear Esther videos were uploaded to his channel, roughly 1.52% of the content that SDG has uploaded to YouTube.