INFO-
Developer-thechineseroom,Robert Briscoe
Programmer-Jack Morgan
Artist-Robert Briscoe,Ben Andrews (concept art)
Writer-Dan Pinchbeck
Composer-Jessica Curry
Engine-Source
Platform-Microsoft Windows,Mac OS X
Release date-Original-June 2008
Remake-February 14, 2012
Genre-Experimental, Visual novel
Mode-Single-player
Media/distribution-Digital distribution
DESCRIPTION-
Dear Esther is an experimental "ghost story" computer game developed by indie game developer thechineseroom. It was first released in June 2008 as a free Source engine mod, and has since been remade for a commercial release on Steam on February 14, 2012.Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: "Dear Esther..." - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years. Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story-driven experience, Dear Esther fuses it’s beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption.
PLOT-
The player progresses through the plot of Dear Esther via a series of voiced-over letter fragments to a woman named Esther. The game does not directly specify who the narrator is, but there are suggestions he is Esther's husband and that she is dead, killed in an automobile accident. These monologue fragments are triggered as the player reaches certain locations in the game; each one is either random, or specific to the area the player is currently exploring. This random selection of voice-over parts causes a lack of coherency, and forces the player to draw their own conclusions. As the game progresses, other unseen characters are referred to: Jakobson, an eighteenth-century shepherd and hermit, and Donnelly, who charted the island some time in the past. Later in the game, the readings begin to allude to the story of Paul on the road to Damascus, which is also the subject of some of the graffiti found painted on the cliff walls.
At the game's end, the player reaches the radio mast atop the island's peak and climbs a ladder to the top of the tower after a final monologue by the narrator, then jumps off and falls to the shore below. Before reaching the bottom, the player becomes a bird and flies through the bay as the game ends.
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS-
OS:Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz or higher
Memory:1 GB RAM
Graphics:DirectX 9 compatible video card with Shader model 3.0. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better
DirectX: 9
Hard Drive:2 GB HD space
Sound:DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Repacked by: DWi
Type: Lossy /v:50% 896x504 va:barely lossy@32kHz a:rebuild
Language: English
Size: 683 MB
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PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
PART 6
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