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Here’s how to perform your duty as a Watcher and do the Allmother proud.

Watcher carries a crude knife while a occupant looks down from above

This can be easier than relying on only your eyes.

In your first communion, you’ll be inundated with characters and conversations that are visible across barriers.

This also means thatcharacters and places will be seen from different angles and with different names.

Florence floats through the air, Monika stares forward, Pidgeons with mohawks and leather jackets

Part of unraveling the story is finding links between the multiple languages.

A spoiler light example from the first communion is a heart engraved with “V+H.”

When you later encounter Veevee with an unknown boy, you could assume this is Hessian.

Bang Bang Fire sits next to a whale plushie in a memory of Iris’s room

Living up to the title of observer means you’ll want to take notes.

This isespecially important with names.

The main content that can be missed in a playthrough are thedialogues and achievements for fully exploring each chapter.

Watcher sits at a school desk during the first communion of 1000xresist

you could avoid this by noting your currently listed objective and doing everything else first.

The Orchard is much less worrying for completionists.

There’s always a story to tell, and from many perspectives.

A mysterious occupant looms in the sky in one of Iris’s memories

A sick student lies in an infirmary bed at Iris’s school. The same bed is visible in the future versions of the scene

Watcher and a confused soldier observes a fox statue, long after the memory of what a fox is has been forgotten.

A set of four unmarked graves found by watcher and secretary while exploring the orchard.

Healer asks Watcher some probing questions while the two are alone in communion.

Game art from Our Life Beginnings & Always, Life Is Strange True Colors, Butterfly Soup and Monster Prom.

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