Posted on: April 8, 2024
LeftHandedMatt
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Good, but outstays its welcome
Essentially an expanded version of Her Story, so if you enjoyed that game you should find lots to like about this too. But while the narrative is intriguing, I enjoyed this less. Instead of following one character we now explore four, with a number of side characters too. The central mechanic works because of the enticing mystery, but it has some flaws. All you need to do here is watch videos and use them find keywords which you can use to search for more videos. Eventually this does outstay its welcome. Fortunately the acting is fantastic and as you uncover more of the plot it's genuinely involving. But your enjoyment really relies on you being able to find the right videos to piece things together. By the end of my playthrough, I didn't have enough to fully understand things and the ending left me unsatisfied. Watching the videos can be a chore. A video will start playing at the point the keyword you searched for appears - this might be right at the end of a clip. A massive flaw is that you can't jump to the start of them, instead you have to rewind. Some videos are up to 10 minutes long and this process is draining. I lost a lot of enthusiasm for the game thanks to this. Most videos also on show one side of a conversation, so you need to try and find the accompanying other half to make proper sense of things. That means you're watching long conversations twice, if you can even find them. And some long videos are so completely empty of anything eventful (a character sleeping). I expected more of an evolution from Her Story, which this isn't (for that, look at Sam Barlow's next game, Immortality). Great narrative with a mix of colourful characters, but a little difficult to fully recommend.
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