The Suicide of Rachel FosterĮxploring the hotel, my immediate thought was The Shining, especially finding a similar looking carpet on the upper floor - make no mistake, that’s not a coincidence. It isn’t a bland, standardised hotel: it’s one of those unique character hotels, the kind I’d imagine you’d find in a beauty spot nestled in the American wilderness, far from the hotel chains that you find everywhere else. The first thing that is striking about the hotel is its design. With little else to do, the only thing left is to explore. Nicole is here to inspect the hotel prior to its sale when a blizzard causes her to get stranded. This is important to the tone of the game, though more on this later. It’s been ten years since she was last there, and despite the hotel being closed for some years, it is still in good shape. The Suicide of Rachel Foster sees you take the role of protagonist Nicole as she returns to her family run hotel after the death of her father. Though I have done many miles of virtual ambling and I still looked forward to a stroll with The Suicide of Rachel Foster. Regardless of my opinions on the subject, I would class myself as Cultured Vultures’ official Head of Video Game Walking, as I seem to be the man to take on these sorts of adventure mystery titles. I’ve spoken about my thoughts on the phrase on several occasions before now and have no desire to repeat myself. The term ‘walking simulator’ gets applied to many first-person interactive fiction games, often rather erroneously, and I am certain it’ll get tacked onto The Suicide of Rachel Foster. Sure, if you look back there were games like Myst and Sentient in the 1990s, but this genre didn’t really develop into its own niche until this past decade.
It’s hard to believe that, not so long ago, the first person mystery/exploration genre barely existed.
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