The explorer starts off in a very small room with not much to go on. A fairly generous checkpointing system took some of the sting out of this, but obviously this is less than ideal. As you literally cannot play on without talking, we were forced to reboot the game each time. Several times throughout our playthrough, the walkies abruptly stopped working. Looking at you gracious leader! ( well, damn… – Ed) We did have a few issues with the comms though. It was fun not hearing your co op partner, the silence presumably meaning they were concentrating hard – until they figured out they were not holding down the button for the walkie talkie, leading to the oft heard ‘I’ve been talking for ages’ after they had realised. Chatting requires you to hold down a button to open comms – this also has the side effect of you both not being able to talk at the same time. In order to communicate, We Were Here has a very interesting take on being able to talk with your co op partner, in the form of a walkie talkie! So you have to play the game not using any external voice chat, relying solely on the in game voice function via the walkie talkies. Not being able to see what your co op partner can required a whole new level of communication for me. When you launch the title, you’re both put into completely different rooms and that is what made this such a fun experience. Both have very different roles throughout the experience to solve the puzzles. So you start of with being given the choice of playing as the explorer or the librarian. Be them very easy or sometimes terrifyingly hard (we shall get to the terrifying part later) the requirement of co-op adds a unique element to proceedings. My play through was with our gracious leader Jamie (aIn this review I will avoid any hints or tips for puzzles, as it was quite an experience trying to figure them out with your co op partner. But, I was in it for the long haul and all I am going to say is I’m glad I waited. 2 Players are required to even start the game, but technical issues meant we were struggling to get going. We got off to a bit of a rocky start with We Were Here.
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