10 Emotionally Intense Video Game Moments You Weren't Ready For

4. "You See Julia" - Firewatch

The written word has been conjuring up scenarios and characters for as long as we could comprehend it, but making a small sequence of connotative situations controllable is all the more affecting.

Such is the intro for Firewatch, where you go from the ever-relatable setup of trying to talk to someone on a night out, all the way through the hiccups and enjoyable parts of a relationship, to even buying your first pet together.

The text on-screen is interspersed with your character making his way through a dense, alienating forest. The text on-screen then starts detailing how your partner was diagnosed with onset dementia at age 41, and following you spending too much time in bars to drink the problem away, her family has relocated her back to Australia.

It's a lot to take in, and it's here where the starts proper, dropping you into this new position as a fire-watcher, deciding how to take Harry's priorities and prerogatives forward.