Tahseen Cairn Review

I came into this game thinking I would hate the climbing mechanics but I had an amazing time with it. The controls are great and the mountain is so fun to climb. Even with the slips and set backs, I enjoyed my time with Cairn. However, it reached a point where I was no longer climbing because I was having fun, I was climbing out of spite for Aava. The actor and writers did an amazing job at creating a complex character that I felt that I understood, yet ended up hating with all my heart. Never have I ever hated a character so much, that I actually wanted them to succeed. I hated the way she acted and the way she spoke to others, I hated the way she thought of the mountain and hated how everything important to her was ignored in favour of it. It did make me sympathetic to Aava and her mission to climb this mountain at the start. Then slowly over the course of the climb, I started to hate her more and more as her personality came out. She was badly depressed and the only thing keeping her going was her addiction to climbing the peak. This unhealthy obsession lead to her ignoring any calls she got from loved ones, not caring for her own well being or that of others, and not heading the warning given to her about this climb. To be honest, I felt like she had made her mind from the start, and it took me too long to realise that this was a one way trip, making me an accessory to this suicide by mountain. I wanted her to prevail, not because I wanted to see her overcome the mountain, but because I wanted her to have what she so desperately wants, an end to it all. It did give me an option to choose weather to keep climbing or to go back down the mountain, I felt that Aava was going to make it to the top, and I kept pushing her out of spite. This is one Cairn that I’m happy to see knocked down 7/10