In a game committed to such realism in it's storytelling, to the point where firewatch manages to duplicate Henry's emotions within the player far better than many other games, firewatch succeeds in presenting a narrative that someone could truly have lived. That's what makes it beautiful. Firewatch challenges the typical structure of what defines a videogame story, and I'd say Henry's time in the woods feels like how it actually would - merely a brief, slightly delusional, escape from the world. Yet, firewatch withdraws itself to being a restrained and quietly introspective experience, where I feel it could have benefitted from, and I expected it to be, aiming a little higher.