If you enjoy FMV games then this is worth the play through - especially if you find it on sale or through game pass/ps plus premium/ etc.
this game really makes you think about your internet safety and areas of morally gray decisions. It takes time to get used to staring at someone talking like it’s at you. So you feel invasive and uncomfortable. Especially some of the conversations.
The controls are pretty simple. The cursor snaps around to fields you can click if you use a controller and it feels odd if your not used to the cursor snapping back to a spot or jumping to a new one.
Some helpful hints for someone trying to get all trophies/ achievements. If you bookmark every video you can track how many you watched easily and there are lists online you can match up dates to see what you missed. You can also use the info ( “i” icon) too. There are 170 videos I had 169 in my info icon based off what I read online but missed one and had to search through everything to find - confirmed it shows 170 in the info field and I got the trophy (you have to sit through the unskippable end credits to get it to count so if miss any you’ll keep having to watch the ending and credits again). The good thing is if you miss one you go back to right before you download the videos.
I had to use a list of keywords to find some of the videos there’s just so many to find.
Some challenges - when you find a video it plays at the moment of a keyword. If you are interested in the storyline you have to slowly rewind there’s no way to start at the beginning of videos. This is annoying since you search based on keywords and there are videos that the last seconds start and you have to go back and watch it all.
It’s hard to follow because you are watching videos as you find them. Even using obviously signals like David’s facial hair of understand the timeline, it doesn’t fully help. The whole telling lies felt missing - because you’re skipping around it’s hard to catch the deceit to the right extent. I read a guide after completing and missing some of the events that happened which made me annoyed spending so much time finding all the videos. And I may have missed watching all the videos in their entirety which made it easy of miss it.
The searching is tedious the first part it was interesting but I kept forgetting keywords. My play style was to watch all 5 videos in my keyword search but that meant having to jot down other words I wanted to search later. I most often used the keyboard search function instead of the selection in the video because I didn’t want to rewatch the same videos and track down the word in the subtitle.
It might be better to play a different way but you’ll have to make a note of searches to repeat.
It would have been nice once you searched a keyword top the five videos were grouped together in a folder. You can see your history but you have to click through them all over again. I also think the videos should auto tag your keywords as you searched and they came up in the 5 viewable. The tagging feature is too much work. I only used it for the trophy and it’s a lot of work to add new ones, and assign them. And go go that for even 100 videos would double / triple play time.
It also would have been cool to offer an option to play all videos in chronological order especially if you found all of them. I’d be interested in seeing that. Maybe it’s on YouTube.
Anyway - I’m giving it a generous 3.5 stars for the story / acting / using FMV technique.
this game really makes you think about your internet safety and areas of morally gray decisions. It takes time to get used to staring at someone talking like it’s at you. So you feel invasive and uncomfortable. Especially some of the conversations.
The controls are pretty simple. The cursor snaps around to fields you can click if you use a controller and it feels odd if your not used to the cursor snapping back to a spot or jumping to a new one.
Some helpful hints for someone trying to get all trophies/ achievements. If you bookmark every video you can track how many you watched easily and there are lists online you can match up dates to see what you missed. You can also use the info ( “i” icon) too. There are 170 videos I had 169 in my info icon based off what I read online but missed one and had to search through everything to find - confirmed it shows 170 in the info field and I got the trophy (you have to sit through the unskippable end credits to get it to count so if miss any you’ll keep having to watch the ending and credits again). The good thing is if you miss one you go back to right before you download the videos.
I had to use a list of keywords to find some of the videos there’s just so many to find.
Some challenges - when you find a video it plays at the moment of a keyword. If you are interested in the storyline you have to slowly rewind there’s no way to start at the beginning of videos. This is annoying since you search based on keywords and there are videos that the last seconds start and you have to go back and watch it all.
It’s hard to follow because you are watching videos as you find them. Even using obviously signals like David’s facial hair of understand the timeline, it doesn’t fully help. The whole telling lies felt missing - because you’re skipping around it’s hard to catch the deceit to the right extent. I read a guide after completing and missing some of the events that happened which made me annoyed spending so much time finding all the videos. And I may have missed watching all the videos in their entirety which made it easy of miss it.
The searching is tedious the first part it was interesting but I kept forgetting keywords. My play style was to watch all 5 videos in my keyword search but that meant having to jot down other words I wanted to search later. I most often used the keyboard search function instead of the selection in the video because I didn’t want to rewatch the same videos and track down the word in the subtitle.
It might be better to play a different way but you’ll have to make a note of searches to repeat.
It would have been nice once you searched a keyword top the five videos were grouped together in a folder. You can see your history but you have to click through them all over again. I also think the videos should auto tag your keywords as you searched and they came up in the 5 viewable. The tagging feature is too much work. I only used it for the trophy and it’s a lot of work to add new ones, and assign them. And go go that for even 100 videos would double / triple play time.
It also would have been cool to offer an option to play all videos in chronological order especially if you found all of them. I’d be interested in seeing that. Maybe it’s on YouTube.
Anyway - I’m giving it a generous 3.5 stars for the story / acting / using FMV technique.