The latest game from creator, Sam Barlow, Immortality is an interactive game where you must scrub recovered archive footage of fictional actress Marissa Marcel to discover what happened to her after a 30+ year career in film. Over three decades, you find footage from three films, 1968's erotic thriller Ambrosio, the 1970's detective mystery Minsky, and the 2000's thiller Two of Everything (all fictional films).
You start with a single video where Marisa is on the game's version of The Late Show and is talking about her first film Ambrosio and how it wasn't released, and that her next film Minsky was being made with the Director of Photography of her first film, leading this second one as the Director. To gather additional scenes, you must enter an image mode where you can highlight a person or thing as your subject and you will be taken to another clip containing the selected option. So from talk show you could click on Marissa to see another scene she was in, the host to watch another interview, a chair to be directed to scenes with chairs in them, and so on.
This will eventually run you through all three films and behind the scenes footage where you start to find that things had changed for Marissa since she first started working in the industry. Seeing how she has adapted to the work and how she sees others. New questions will arise as off the scene comments are said or references to something that happened in the film or behind the camera. You must figure out what caused her to vanish.
Additionally, the film allows you to play it at various speeds or frame by frame and even backwards. It is here that the true story of the game is hidden in subliminal footage of a woman known as "The One" will discuss scenes as an outside participating party, that is never shown in the scene unless played in reverse. The story really picks up intrique with these secrets and by the end of the game you have experiences one of the best games (imo) of the last few years.
You start with a single video where Marisa is on the game's version of The Late Show and is talking about her first film Ambrosio and how it wasn't released, and that her next film Minsky was being made with the Director of Photography of her first film, leading this second one as the Director. To gather additional scenes, you must enter an image mode where you can highlight a person or thing as your subject and you will be taken to another clip containing the selected option. So from talk show you could click on Marissa to see another scene she was in, the host to watch another interview, a chair to be directed to scenes with chairs in them, and so on.
This will eventually run you through all three films and behind the scenes footage where you start to find that things had changed for Marissa since she first started working in the industry. Seeing how she has adapted to the work and how she sees others. New questions will arise as off the scene comments are said or references to something that happened in the film or behind the camera. You must figure out what caused her to vanish.
Additionally, the film allows you to play it at various speeds or frame by frame and even backwards. It is here that the true story of the game is hidden in subliminal footage of a woman known as "The One" will discuss scenes as an outside participating party, that is never shown in the scene unless played in reverse. The story really picks up intrique with these secrets and by the end of the game you have experiences one of the best games (imo) of the last few years.