Completed with 100% of achievements unlocked; all videos viewed. An impressively engaging taking on the "FMV" genre, Her Story puts the player in an investigative role, exploring a fictional police database of clips cut from interviews with a female murder suspect - the catch being that your only means of querying the database is using the words spoken in each short clip (which are often only a few seconds long). Some keywords are obvious, of course, but to form a reasonably full picture of events takes a fair amount of effort - which is what makes the experience so engaging, as your attempt to untangle the roles of the various individuals involved.

The whole game uses only a single actress, who does an impressive job with the script, even if it gets a little far-fetched in places. There's clearly been a lot of work put into that script all the same, to ensure that there are just enough strings to tug on and make further progress, without becoming either too straightforward or too obscure - and the game smartly leaves you to draw your own conclusions about some of the fine detail.

Reviewed on Dec 27, 2022


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