The game is just alright ¯\(ツ)/¯. I loved Her Story and got a sudden urge to play Immortality but I decided that I should play this one first.
The story is okay but the way it was presented and the "gameplay" was annoying as hell. Watching clips of one side of a video call is cool and unique but then you have an 8-minute video to watch which is half-filled with silence as the other person is speaking, and then you have the 8-minute video of the other side of the call. As opposed to Her Story which I think had more digestible clips that were usually around 2 minutes. Telling Lies starts playing clips from the search term that you put in, which would be fine if there was a button to rewind to the very start of the video but there isn't. So a large portion of the game is spent rewinding clips slowly.
The surprisingly big cast with really good acting probably kept me engaged enough to keep playing through this game. Didn't expect to recognize anyone but seeing Alexandra Shipp and James Scully surprised me lol.
There are also these big moments that end up not feeling big at all and you don't get to see the aftermath of what actually happens to the characters so you get left with a sense of nonclosure and you're not really sure if you've seen all the videos that you need to see or not.
Excited to play Immortality soon though.
The story is okay but the way it was presented and the "gameplay" was annoying as hell. Watching clips of one side of a video call is cool and unique but then you have an 8-minute video to watch which is half-filled with silence as the other person is speaking, and then you have the 8-minute video of the other side of the call. As opposed to Her Story which I think had more digestible clips that were usually around 2 minutes. Telling Lies starts playing clips from the search term that you put in, which would be fine if there was a button to rewind to the very start of the video but there isn't. So a large portion of the game is spent rewinding clips slowly.
The surprisingly big cast with really good acting probably kept me engaged enough to keep playing through this game. Didn't expect to recognize anyone but seeing Alexandra Shipp and James Scully surprised me lol.
There are also these big moments that end up not feeling big at all and you don't get to see the aftermath of what actually happens to the characters so you get left with a sense of nonclosure and you're not really sure if you've seen all the videos that you need to see or not.
Excited to play Immortality soon though.