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Normally I'm all about story quality over gameplay quality, but wow I really hated Dear Esther.

I'm not saying that I wanted enemies to shoot or platforms to climb or whatever but I would have liked something, anything to do other than just move along the set path. Even if the game had just trusted me to turn on my own flashlight that would have been something. When your contribution to a game is more or less just holding down the forwards key what is the point of even being there at all.

The best I can say about Dear Esther was that it was a reasonably good short film hamstrung by the fact it needed my constant input to keep going.

And yes I am probably criticizing it as being a terrible example of a genre it is not a part of, and I would argue that that genre is 'game'.

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SpoilerI know games are a medium and not a genre but whatever.