Her Story (Mac)

A great interactive story really. Use search words and terms to unlock clips (over 200 of varying lengths from a few seconds to a minute) of a woman being interviewed by cops, and piece together the story. But it’s so well put together, works really and is surprisingly compulsive in trying to find more videos. Hits get less successful (diminishing returns) as you progress obviously but there is a skill to it (listen carefully to the clips and suss out key words that may occur across more than one clip etc).

I found all but one random clip in middle and a block of 8 towards the end. (A database diagram shows which ones you’ve found.) Found the random one after I made credits roll, but still no idea about the block of 8 (I know when in the interview they are but not how to trigger them?!). Gonna look it up.

Well worth a few quid and few hours of time. Onto Telling Lies shortly.

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The problem with Her Story was that, if you got the right search terms, you could see the clips that were meant to be seen later very early on, making the rest a dull mop-up.

Andy wrote:

The problem with Her Story was that, if you got the right search terms, you could see the clips that were meant to be seen later very early on, making the rest a dull mop-up.

I get that but still prefer it to telling lies, watching someone go “aha”; “mmm”; “aha” isn’t my idea of fun.   Also where the fuck is the rewind button?

Just finished The Witness.

I'll try and go into more detail about it another time, but I did not like it.

It's oh so very clever and well put together, and quite pretty. The ambient sounds are good too. I liked some of the puzzles.

There's just something cold, and quite off about it all. I generally get what it's about, but there are probably more efficient and pleasant ways of getting that stuff across. It feels quite hollow somehow.

I am kind of proud that I managed to force myself through the endless bumper book of puzzles, many of which were dreadfully repetitive, and some that were genuinely unpleasant. I did enjoy some of the environment based ones, until they overstayed their welcome.

I got it for free so there's that, it got to the point where I had to get to the end to see if there was more to it, but having done that I now realise I should have done something more productive and enriching with the time.


5/10

Nah you're doing it wrong

Classic Muzzy Moot

Unless Blow's point is telling you epiphany burn-out is a real thing and effects hundreds of cosmic brain game designers like him so what chance do you have of making a good game.

What a dick head.

I think I enjoyed playing A Short Hike more than any other new game I've played this year.  I mean, I haven't played many new games but still.

I legit choked up at the peak.

I was tempted but it's tricky to gauge how well a GB homage platformer plays from trailers. Glad Awesome Pea had a demo as I didn't like it. Recommended then?

Stranger's Wrath on the PC for the billionth time.

Now that it launches from Steam I can get achievements, so that was a good excuse for another playthrough - even though my last one was only a few weeks ago.

What joy to see that a number of achievements are bugged and don't unlock, and some require you to get them in one playthrough as the counters reset if you quit the game. Not great for the hidden barrels that appear in the first town and right at the end of the game - that's a long time to play in one sitting.

Luckily there are ways of getting around them so I've got all apart from the bounty 250 outlaws. Not sure whether to do the workaround or just play again and capture that many in one sitting. Obviously I'll do the latter as it's another excuse to play this again.

Also, been playing on Switch. Too many stutters for me, it's not terrible, but not a patch on the PC version or even the PS3 - which was 720p rather than 1080p. Deadzone on the joy cons and pro controller are annoying as well as it makes it harder to aim. Still, it's SW so it's automatically the best thing on the Switch.

It ran fine on Vita so there’s really no excuse for a poor port

Oh ok

Maybe I should dust the vita off

I played it on og Xbox as well and i sweAr Down it was fine on vita

Going to play through the xbox version again as it’s been a couple of years and rose tinted glasses ....

First impressions are the cut scenes look much better than any modern version when viewed on a crt.

Normal game looks a bit ropey, rubbish textures, and blurry sd graphics. 30fps (ntsc version) which is a shock especially on a crt.

Controls nicely (unlike vita) and load times are very fast - second only to the pc version.

Will play through a couple of towns to check the consistency of frame rate.

You did all that levelling up before the credits?

At least it should make the rest of it easy, I guess.