Her Story was perhaps the pinnacle of FMV games for me. Sam Barlow was unable to create the same tension and capture the same essential spirit this time. Telling Lies can be completed having half the clips watched. If you want to push yourself to reveal all the story, it feels more like boredom rather than an excitement to solve what went around. Is it a problem with cast? Not at all. The story, if not any lesser, is as circuitous as Her Story's. However, the interface is designed poorly enough to have you scrambled around. When it lets you down it is followed by the fact that you open up the videos where your prompted keyword is located so it's an hassle in itself to start from the beginning which is not exactly a thing despite the game has a rewind button as usual. Then you go, rewind and rewind. You do it til you go insane. The question is still there to click. Is it a necessary challenge to accomplish a game while you can just watch its story in complete chronological order if not solving things are satisfying enough?