The first hour or so was somewhat interesting, but that's to be expected in a mystery game. As time went on, the experience boiled down to typing in keywords words (and much later on, random words) and hoping that an unwatched video will pop up in the search results. It doesn't help that the interface only displays a maximum of 5 videos as search results. I think that the limitation is there to artificially drag out the play time. Given that many of the videos are about 15 seconds long with nothing really significant being shown or said, this FMV game has yet another reason to feel like a real drag. It was also disappointing that there wasn't a way to view all of the videos in order, so the story felt pretty disjointed. I imagine law enforcement in real life would really struggle without file explorers or even command line interfaces that can list directories and ALL file contents, but that's exactly what the interface in this game lacks. In the player's case, one would be better off just going through the game files and watching everything from there. I suppose one could also find a compilation video of everything in order as well (there is one by the way). The story itself was rather underwhelming as well. It 'ends' rather ambiguously, which is not something that I mind, but the disjointed way in which it is presented had done all the damage it needed to turn me from being 'interested' to 'indifferent'. I think I actually found the experience of reading about how the game was made to be more interesting than 'playing' the game itself. At least the actress, Viva Seifert, did a reasonable job. 'Her Story' poses an interesting question, and it's one that we all need to consider before putting this FMV game on a pedestal: Does a film with a running time of about 1 hour and 40 minutes being chopped up into tiny bits and viewed in random order sound good to you?
