Her Story

great !

Vine por la investigación, me quedé por la actuación....y terminé haciendo un excel. Her Story es especial para quien disfruta de armar un rompecabezas, pieza por pieza. El Rastreador de Clips que hay en ti lo agradecerá. Es como rellenar un álbum de figuritas, solo que usando palabras claves..., una palabra te lleva a un clip y a una nueva palabra clave que te lleva a otro nuevo clip....y cuando te das cuenta creaste una planilla en excel para entender mejor la cronología, cuantos clips y duración por fechas, quien es quien, ropa, colores, barra de progreso....clip tras clip tras clip tras clip... Her Story es Viva Seifert, pero "su historia"....es otro tema. Destaca su sobresaliente actuación, con un manejo de los gestos y expresiones, que junto a su encanto, te seducen a quedarte un rato más...solo otro clip... La historia...."her story"...por otro lado, lamentablemente tiene algunos puntos flojos, partiendo de la premisa que el personaje está siendo interrogado por la policía, la manera en que habla, los diálogos y otras sorpresas, no se condicen con la situación. El problema no es la actuación, sino la dirección, como se decidió contar la historia. De todas formas, puedo entender, Sam Barlow busca acercar el personaje al jugador, y en esa intención, se pueden tolerar algunas licencias, para que la mecánica del juego funcione y la historia sea contada. La mecánica del juego es simple y en su simpleza, atractiva. Hay algunos (bastantes) clips de relleno, otros más difíciles de encontrar. Si después de un tiempo te aburre y ya no se te ocurre que más escribir, preparate una taza de café ;-) armate de paciencia y volvé a intentarlo. [spoiler]Tampoco me cierra la historia, y la historia no cierra. El final abierto me deja perplejo, no se si es acertado o flojo.[/spoiler] El logro del mini-juego "Mirror Game" es una complicación innecesaria, impedimento molesto para el 100% de logros y juego "completado", peor aún, nada tiene que ver con el juego en si... Her Story es un FMV entretenido, aún con sus puntos débiles, es buen juego. Recomendado. Al inicio la primera palabra es MURDER, y para finalizar me despido gritando (y cantando): Murderer... MUUUURDEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEERRR!!!.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gQ_BhVqts

Very nice and mysterious game. For anyone who wants to be a detective

Interesting game , i liked it but the ambiguous ending felt a bit lackluster since there are clues hinting towards either explanations.This feels a bit cheap to add more mistique to the game.

Extremely interesting gimmick good story and super fun mechanics seems unreasonable to get 100 percent without a guide.

A very cool experience! I was totally hooked, although it did become a bit tedious once I had figured out the story but still had several fragments left to hunt down. I was determined to figure it out, though, and got there soon enough. There are also guides available if you need them. Can absolutely recommend this if you want to explore alternative ways of storytelling and would like to solve an intriguing mystery!

I think I may have slightly ruined this game for myself by accidently stumbling upon the ending video early. Then again, I suppose that's just the nature of the format - the rough must be taken with the smooth, etc. etc., and I am of the opinion that more games should be experimenting with nonlinear storytelling.

Recommended with the caveats that it is (1) extremely short and (2) a bit underbaked in terms of design. Play this if you are interested in the design of detective games that dare to thread in experimental waters. In 'her story', you attempt to solve a case by spitting through hours of police interview footage of a woman under question. The game uses live FMV footage of an actress. You cannot watch the footage sequentially, instead, you have to search the interview for certain keywords to see how they are mentioned. This creates an entirely non-lineair way of experiencing the story. Reminiscent of 'Return of the Obra Dinn' or 'Case of the Golden Idol'. I love the dedication to non-linearity: There are no gated clips or footage, the experience of the story is entirely guided by your curiosity, which makes it an almost frictionless puzzlebox to uncover. However, I now discover why these guardrails are generally in place, since one trope-savvy keyword search unveiled the major twist to me within 10 minutes of playing the game. Non-linearity has no respect for a dramatic structure. A similar thing happened with solving the crime, but here I just stumbled upon the most incriminating message, which undid al the sleuthing I had done in reconstructing the crime. The game also doesn't have any true mechanic on solving the crime. Instead, a prompt will show up and politely ask you if you feel like you have gotten what you wanted from the experience, which is slanted more through the question if you have an emotional understanding of the case rather than a judicial one. I actually preferred how 'Obra Dinn' makes its questions purely judicial and leaves the sympathies and moralities entirely to the player. That both made a wry political statement as well as permitting the freedom of the player. The game permits enough freedom, but so much that it doesn't feel like the game properly entices you to solve the case. It is missing goalposts and that has an effect on engagement, even if designing such goalposts for a detective game can be a real headache. That approach to case design based on your emotional connection is also very dependent on how actually emotionally engaging the case is. Overall, the actress does a fine job but the overall production feels a little cheap. There are some charming, offhand moments to find but they are too few and far between. The actual story is also very convoluted in a way that those detective stories can be, with the world inexplicably functioning like a rube goldberg machine which a lot of words are spilled on to justify its logic. In general, I think it should have leaned into the campy elements more or gone full procedural and grounded. That doesn't sound that positive now does it? Well, sometimes a strong experiment can do a lot! If you approach this like an impressive attempt of creating an immersive 'black story' (you know that card game), you will have a lot of fun with it to figure it out in a short, breezy evening.