For instance, Angie runs into Ciaran early on, the somewhat slow-witted but well-meaning groundskeeper for George’s farm. It helps that the supporting cast is well-drawn and memorable, too. Saving is important in almost any game, and it makes a powerful statement about addiction that it makes Angie have a smoke whenever you want to save. It also does a fantastic job of implementing its themes into gameplay-the most telling example of this is the fact that you save by smoking. In fact, there were some scenes later on that felt wonderfully cathartic despite the doom hanging over everything. Despite the down-beat, bittersweet ending I got on my playthrough, I didn’t feel like it was too miserable or that it wallowed too much in Angie’s plight.
And make no mistake, the game does not sugarcoat Angie’s situation-there are numerous moments throughout of her pondering how unfair it is, and while it’s certainly quite dreary and depressing, the game’s final chapter does a lot to pay that sorrow off. If The Cat Lady was about forgiving one’s self for their past, Burnhouse Lane is about living while you can and embracing life despite how unfair and cruel it can be. While the setup is initially very similar to The Cat Lady, the specifics of the plot are very different. Each chapter focuses on one of those tasks, and along the way she meets new people while caring for an elderly man named George in the countryside. She is told there by a giant, malformed cat that there are several tasks she must complete to be rid of her illness. After attempting suicide, she is brought to the eponymous Burnhouse Lane, a strange, other worldly place for folks who have one foot in the cradle and the other in the grave. Burnhouse Lane instead follows a woman named Angie who has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer after losing her husband to the same illness (his name is James, and this is far from the only nod to Silent Hill 2 Harvester snuck in). Each chapter focused on a different antagonist, giving it a very episodic feel. TCL was about Susan Ashworth, a woman with profound depression, learning to live again while also fighting off Parasites that usually took the form of psychopathic murderers. And at a glance, there are a lot of borrowed elements from that title. This apparently started off as a direct sequel to the first entry in the trilogy, The Cat Lady.
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