Telling lies is a game that hates its players. It's an expensive version of Her Story with a basic ass plot zero catharsis finale.
Players leave Her Story after an arc, you get your answers but there are still a few questions that remain open to interpretation, it's fun storytelling done well using a very minimal and limited technique.
Telling Lies forgoes the interrogation setting for two sided (but seperate) video calls between David and the rest of the cast. There are a lot of silence in these calls, a lot of them are barely relevant fluff.
The acting is generally pretty good, the main guy is annoying and seem fake the entire time. It kinds fits the character so maybe they're actually brilliant.
The game keeps the backwards search system but it makes less sense on a modern 2019 laptop than it did on an 80s PC.
The scrubbing system is horrendous. Playing videos starts from when the searched term is first said and not from the start. There is no official way to play them from the start and the scrubbing, with its three speeds l, is painfully slow.
I was about 20 videos in before I realised this. And around a 100 before I found out there's a perhaps a bug perhaps hidden feature to skip to the start. You need to hold rewind as soon as you hit play and after the soundclip ends it will play the clip from the start.
These clips amount to hours upon hours of blinks and silence. The constarct is flimsy and despite the plot being simple and straight forward its so broken and drowned in noise and silence that makes it hard to follow. It's a hollow detached experience.
Did I mention this game has multiple endings? That don't contradict each other and are very short and could easily just be a part of an epilogue? They're determined by the character you spend most time with, what significance does this have in a game like this?
None of them are very good, they're just a couple bland blurbs about the main characters' fate
There are three women in the game, one is a sex worker, one was is a victim of harassment and abuse and the other was sexualy assaulted.
All of them perform a striptease at some point.
Every aspect of this game feels like trolling.
The game has a solitaire mini game that's missing a card. Why? Because fuck you
The time I spent playing Telling Lies I could play Her Story like three times, and it was time better spent.
Players leave Her Story after an arc, you get your answers but there are still a few questions that remain open to interpretation, it's fun storytelling done well using a very minimal and limited technique.
Telling Lies forgoes the interrogation setting for two sided (but seperate) video calls between David and the rest of the cast. There are a lot of silence in these calls, a lot of them are barely relevant fluff.
The acting is generally pretty good, the main guy is annoying and seem fake the entire time. It kinds fits the character so maybe they're actually brilliant.
The game keeps the backwards search system but it makes less sense on a modern 2019 laptop than it did on an 80s PC.
The scrubbing system is horrendous. Playing videos starts from when the searched term is first said and not from the start. There is no official way to play them from the start and the scrubbing, with its three speeds l, is painfully slow.
I was about 20 videos in before I realised this. And around a 100 before I found out there's a perhaps a bug perhaps hidden feature to skip to the start. You need to hold rewind as soon as you hit play and after the soundclip ends it will play the clip from the start.
These clips amount to hours upon hours of blinks and silence. The constarct is flimsy and despite the plot being simple and straight forward its so broken and drowned in noise and silence that makes it hard to follow. It's a hollow detached experience.
Did I mention this game has multiple endings? That don't contradict each other and are very short and could easily just be a part of an epilogue? They're determined by the character you spend most time with, what significance does this have in a game like this?
None of them are very good, they're just a couple bland blurbs about the main characters' fate
There are three women in the game, one is a sex worker, one was is a victim of harassment and abuse and the other was sexualy assaulted.
All of them perform a striptease at some point.
Every aspect of this game feels like trolling.
The game has a solitaire mini game that's missing a card. Why? Because fuck you
The time I spent playing Telling Lies I could play Her Story like three times, and it was time better spent.