Yesssss I love Her Story - that “curiosity as game mechanic” was really well done, and I wish there were more games in the ‘genre’.
I did play the later game “Immortality” which is a bit similar in gameplay - you can click on something in one scene to find other scenes with the same character / object in them. I enjoyed that, though it didn’t have the same exploration-narrative magic of Her Story. I definitely found it harder to get engaged with at first.
It must be really difficult to craft a story that reveals itself well in that clip/connection format. It’s not a simple linear narrative, and avoiding sequence breaks (where you get a clip that reveals things you shouldn’t yet know) is so important. Though I think Her Story handles that well by keeping clips short enough that you don’t have the context with just a single clip.
Oof, haven’t thought about them in years and now I want more.
I should take another look at Telling Lies. When it came out there were a lot of complaints about what you said, it drops you into the middle of a scene and I think you had to slowly rewind to the start of the clip? I read later that (?) they added a feature to skip back to the start with a single button press (or maybe that was a steam mod?). Anyways, I never ended up playing it.
I was watching the other game: “#wargames” for a while but it stopped being sold and vanished from the internet.
It’s all but the worst phrase and we need to all but stop using it! All but most of the time the actual all but intended meaning can all but be found by just all but removing “all but”. Switzerland is all but all all but but surrounded == Switzerland is all but surrounded