Then the car does not take any role and is not mentioned until the last scene, when Nicole uses the car to commit suicide. In the beginning, she tries to leave in it, and mentions it being a 1984 Dodge. The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House: Near the end it turns out that Irving is calling Nicole from inside the hotel.Calling Parents by Their Name: Nicole refers to her father as "Leonard" after she got alienated from him because of his relationship with Rachel.Bland-Name Product: They are all over the place in the hotel, from cleaning to food products.Big, Screwed-Up Family: Nicole has a pedophile father and a child-murdering mother.Big Electric Switch: The generator room has a few of these.Nicole comments "Vandals" when she sees it. It must be recent, made after the hotel was closed down, given that even the can of paint is there. Bathroom Stall Graffiti: There is a large graffiti in the men's bathroom. ![]() Irving could be deliberately exaggerating, but Nicole is supposed to have grown up in the region so she should know he is speaking nonsense. Anyone with personal experience of harsh winters can tell you it may feel unpleasant, but with reasonable winter clothing you can easily spend an hour outdoors in that weather without dropping dead. ![]() Early on in the game Irving says that walking around outside in a blizzard with the temperature at twenty below would cause her "lungs to collapse within minutes".That blood would be dried to the point of being black and unwashable. When Nicole finds the blanket which was used to transport the dead Rachel to the cliff to fake suicide, she starts washing it and bright red blood starts seeping out of it.All other significant characters are already dead when the game begins. Anyone Can Die: Irving and potentially Nicole both commit suicide at the end.This might have been the reason for Rachel's attraction to Leonard. Abusive Parents: Rachel's father Reverend Foster is described to have been a very strict parent who placed high expectations on Rachel.Some of the technology in the hotel is even older, given how it's been on the decline since The '80s. Nicole has to use a radio telephone to communicate with Irving and has no other way of contacting the outside world. The '90s: The game takes place in December of 1993.Spoiler warning: due to the mystery nature of the story, even the trope names can spoil. ![]() To advance the story, you have to achieve certain objectives, from mundane things such as finding food to investigating the past. Most of the playable area is available for explore from a fairly early point, but new areas become available progressively as you reach the conclusion. The gameplay is typical that of Environmental Narrative Games: you explore the hotel and try to find out what happened from Story Breadcrumbs along the way. As time progresses, things become more and more weird. Someone calls over the, supposedly dead, main-line telephone telling her that Rachel didn't commit suicide and warning her not to sell the hotel. ![]() Soon enough, weird things start happening. Nicole's only companion is a FEMA agent named Irving who she talks with on a radio telephone. Unfortunately, a huge storm arrives, cutting off the hotel from the world for several days. After the death of her father, Nicole returns to the hotel to inspect it before selling it. The game's events begin 10 years later, in December 1993. Once the relationship is revealed, the girl jumps off the cliff, and Leonard's wife, Claire Wilson, leaves the place with their daughter Nicole, also 16. Leonard McGrath, owner of Timberline Hotel, a mountain hotel in Lewis and Clark county, Montana, has an affair with the much younger, 16 year old, Rachel Foster, daughter of a Reverend. It was developed by ONE-O-ONE Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment, released in 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The Suicide of Rachel Foster (TSORF for short) is a Psychological Thriller Environmental Narrative Game.
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