Her Story

Great hook to the story at the start of the game, followed by an intriguing set of events and revelations. I would have preferred a more organised clip visualisation method. Highty recommended.

Cool concept, but the actual execution grew a bit tedious for me overtime. There's no guaranteeing that you'll come up with the important words needed and the lack of an ending is disappointing. Best enjoyed from watching a playthrough of somebody else playing it, because it's really anticlimactic when you solve the game immediately but then the game decides you have to keep playing it until it randomly decides that you're done. Took me 1.7 hours to get through everything this game had to offer from scratch on a fresh save, which may not sound very long, but I grew bored of typing words with no matches, so I found walkthroughs super helpful. Very unique nonlinear storytelling but did not hold up as well as I had remembered a decade ago as someone who had forgotten everything that had happened in this, 5/10. (spoilers following this point) the twists aren't very well executed because the two identical twins both act too much like the same person instead of having distinct personalities and once you do figure out the plot, it doesn't really make any sort of sense, because the scenes contradict each other with the red herrings trying to throw you off too much that by the time you put together what's real, the game has frequently denied it even being possible. It just feels lazy in hindsight and it could've been executed better and I wish it was more fun to play. The minimal plot hinges on shock value plot twists trying to be dark and disturbing but it's just... not very? Sam Barlow also pulls the same one-trick pony stunt with Immortality, where you see everything nonlinear, so everything is excused for not making sense because that's supposed to be interesting enough, but it's basically the same game again.

Very interesting story with fragmented narrative. You search for videos in a sort of 90s software using tags. Nice experience trying to build chronologically the scenes

It's a wild ride. Just when you've thought you figured it out, you haven't.

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Es macht Spaß sich immer mehr Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Ich finde dass die "Ermittler"-Arbeit bei "The roottrees are dead" besser gelöst ist. In "Her story" schaue ich "nur" Videos und setze die Story in meinem Kopf halbwegs zusammen. Für ein oder zwei Abende ganz nett und vor allem mal eine andere Spielidee.

Such a cool game. I've never played anything like it. It may feel gimmicky but there's a really cool story here that I couldn't look away from..