I was feeding back to Delilah what I already knew based on the intro. Even after Henry began to disclose to Delilah the details about his relationship with Julia, I never felt like I was learning anything new about Henry. He turns Henry into a character who sounds genuinely likable.īut if I had to describe Henry as a character, “awkward” and “likable” are the only two words that come to mind. He’s voiced by Rich Sommer, who played Harry Crane in Mad Men. Sommer’s performance is superb. I appreciated that Henry isn’t the typical video game protagonist. I never felt as close to Henry again as I did during that introduction, however, which is ironic considering I was in his shoes for the rest of the game. I have also seen immediate family members suffering from Alzheimer’s, which gave me a touchstone by which to understand Henry’s situation. The intro effectively conveyed to me the sense of narrative ownership upon which adventure games depend, though I felt sure that the results of my choices would be purely cosmetic. The text adventure is literally a fill-in-the-blanks exercise, with the player determining some of the fine details as to how Henry met Julia, what their relationship was like prior to her falling ill, and how Henry handled her illness once it became advanced. We are told about all of this via a text-adventure-style prologue, intercut with shots of Henry driving and then hiking out to the lookout tower.

Henry tried and failed to provide the care that Julia needed, and she was taken home to Australia by her parents, where they could watch over her properly. His wife, Julia, suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Henry has taken the isolated job to get away from a family tragedy.

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