It's no Obra Dinn but it's a hell of a lot better than L.A. Noire. Her Story has some of the best deductive-based gameplay I've seen and I appreciate how player-driven and player-reliant it is. There's no talking voice in your head, no tutorial, no guidance of any kind. It contrasts significantly to a game like Orwell which I played just recently and sort of drives the player directly towards the solution. I do think that Barlow's choice to organize the plot in an entirely non-chronological, non-linear, completely open way somewhat harmed the structure of the game as a whole. One of the main "gotcha" hooks in the game that feels like it should honestly be the ending (and it technically is, chronologically this happens in the last of the seven interviews) only took me about 20 or 30 minutes to discover and I ended up feeling like I spent the next 2, 2.5 hours just putzing around trying to learn more about the characters to flesh out the world. Despite that this is a really good game and despite my grievances with the writing this is easily one of the most detective-y detective games out there. Would recommend if you have two or three hours to lounge around staring at FMV tapes scratching your head.