A somewhat interactive movie

You can call Tender Loving Care a lot of things, but uninteresting is not one of them. In it, you get to watch a bit of the movie as well as answer some psychological evaluation questions and your reactions to the last scene you've watched. This format is unique - you don't play a character, nor can you directly influence what happens, yet your responses do affect how things play out, including the ending. Unfortunately, there is no way of telling how your responses affect the story and with just one save slot, you'll have to start over to see any alternate scenes. The parts where you wander about in 3D recreations of the game settings are very much like Rob Landeros's previous 7th Guest, only it totally strips out the puzzles. You get some additional insight if you read some of the character diaries or files, but you won't miss much if you skip directly to the evaluation. It's essentially like DVD bonus content for a movie. The acting is probably some of the best the FMV genre has to offer, for what it's worth. The production value is on par with your average TV movie and the actors are okay. John Hurt surprisingly doesn't phone it in (a lot of these FMV games have one "name" actor during a drought period in their career) and I found myself just wanting to listen to his voiceover. The "adult" scenes aren't anything you wouldn't see on late night cable TV in the U.S. It's all serviceable erotic thriller cheese. This version of the game seems to be a port of the iOS version, which in turn was the DVD version reprogrammed to run a WebKit browser. As a result, the video is in terribly compressed WebM. And although it's supposed to be "uncensored" at least one scene is edited presumably to comply with App Store rules. Would've been great to just have the DVD ISO mounted in a DVD player. In the end, TLC is definitely an interesting little nugget that shows the intriguing direction FMV games could be taken in, as well as a study into why the genre ultimately failed.