Jello Reviews (Double Feature) - "Her Story" & "Telling Lies"
Added 2022-09-22 07:11:25 +0000 UTCA double-feature audio review of indie games "Her Story" and its spiritual sequel "Telling Lies".
The first half of this review is completely spoiler-free. The second half goes into spoilers.
HER STORY - 8/10
If you like...
Murder Mysteries
Old FMV Games
VHS Tapes
Non-linear storytelling
Exploration as games as a narrative medium
Search Engines
...then you might like Her Story!
TELLING LIES - 4/10
Don't play Telling Lies.
Comments
Haven’t played either game and this is my second time listening through and it just hit me that for the polygraph clips I’m willing to bet that the mechanic for those is to guess correctly and type in the search bar one of the questions Hannah was asked during the polygraph session
Bestpartofwakingup
2022-11-26 19:24:30 +0000 UTCminor point, but apparently for the lie detector scenes, you need to specifically put "yes" and "no" in double quotes like i just did in this sentence. failing that, you can use the ADMIN_RANDOM command to get random clips until you get the lie detector ones (which, while random, is biased in favor of unseen clips, i think).
Brethren Toons
2022-10-20 02:52:58 +0000 UTCIf you enjoy detective style games, I recommend checking out Detective Grimoire: Secret of the Swamp. It has a system where you need to select from lists of nouns and verb phrases rather than a "Choose option A through C for who you think did it" which I absolutely adore. ...Also you can make fun nonesense sentences like "That little girl isn't warm enough for my beard to have happened".
Finn Underwood
2022-09-30 20:14:51 +0000 UTCyour perspective on the "gruff detective with marital issues" had me take another look at one of my ocs who was a divorced detective and i decided to rework his story. now hes happily married, and my story is better for it since i could make his wife a prominent character!
QueenSonoko
2022-09-23 22:45:47 +0000 UTCI will admit that even though I noticed this on my own and I agreed, Yam was the one to say it out loud first. True Crime/Mystery is the most easy-to-spot "written by a man" genre though.
JelloApocalypse
2022-09-22 18:17:07 +0000 UTCBRB gonna go write a game script about a healthy loving crime-solving married couple
Candaru Driemor
2022-09-22 16:39:14 +0000 UTCJust. Ugh. Why are so many of these characters that are terrible cop men with awful family relationships? Why do writers like him so much he's SO BAD
Fan Trades
2022-09-22 15:52:23 +0000 UTC“So obviously written by a man” — GENUINELY comforting to hear a guy point this out. The amount of times I’ve watched something and gone “I’m not being sexist, right? This is bad writing and specifically from a male perspective?”
Candaru Driemor
2022-09-22 15:33:08 +0000 UTC
