Great walk is a game that I loved deeply, and also a game that I have repeatedly said that I don’t think I could play a second time. The magic was phenomenal, but as they said in Titanium Court, he was exhausted. And yet this game continues to find ways to pull me in so gently, even months after my initial playthrough. I interviewed the game developers. I found a popular community hero and went on an aerial adventure with him.
And a few days ago I successfully completed Great walkThis is the latest (to my knowledge) best-hidden puzzle, and it has been appropriately rewarded for it.
I’m about to ruin the (first) ending of Great walk for you. If you have not yet completed the game and intend to do so, do not continue reading. It’s truly magical to discover all this for yourself. Nothing here about the second ending, so if you’re still working on that you can continue:
Great walk has a wonderful credits sequence in which you and your group sit in chairs around an outdoor movie screen and watch as the game’s theme plays, slowly and bittersweet. I was openly crying while this was happening in my game, even as I laughed at the antics of my friends jumping around the screen, reading people’s names out loud in silly voices as the sun began to rise in the distance. Man, I have tears in my eyes writing about this now!
Shortly after my adventure ended, I saw someone else who had finished Great walk publication on a link, hidden in the credits. I went back to look for it via the credits in the main menu, and there it was: a URL. I visited the website. The website has some simple instructions that I followed. Then I waited. I went on vacation. Someone else picked up my mail. (Note: I’ve updated this post because Panic’s Cabel Sasser tells me the link doesn’t appear in the game’s credits, just in the main menu version!)
A few days ago, I was going through my pile of unopened holiday mail and found a crumpled envelope with my address handwritten on it. It was thin, almost empty. But I slid it out, and inside there was, obviouslythe same reward as for all other puzzles in Great walk: a strange red shape of indeterminate name covered with multicolored confetti. This was the very last one of its kind I would (almost certainly) find:
There was also a little added bonus inside:
That was all. It’s perfect.
I’ve thought about it several times over the past few months, but this time I really think I’m done Great walk.
You can also get one if you complete the game, click the link and follow the instructions. It says this is only good “while supplies last”, so they may be out of the little red things, but hopefully you can get yours in time, if you want one.
I don’t know where the proper red tip facility is to drop this one off. I guess sewing it onto my sick denim jacket will have to do.
Gn tech
