Her Story |OT| Type M for Murder

One of the few games to get awarded twice on stage. Outstanding, and absolutely deserved. I'm proud that the jurors were able to look past the AAA obvious picks and choose this game for both awards. It really shows that this industry, slowly but surely, is getting to the point of actual arts criticism. Bravo.
 
As much shit everyone gives for video game stories being shit and even criticising Her Story for being mundane of all things, I do think it deserved an award and definitely recognition for being so different from the competition that it had to win. Especially when the most common complaints about 'story-driven' games that you're simply playing through a movie as it unfolds with varying amounts of playing choice and related consequence branching built in.
 
I was thinking about buying this game for weeks and, with all those awards, I guess it's time. Looks very, very, very interesting.
 
Yes, do it. Also for anyone else interested, pick it up on Steam right now for a couple of bucks. It'll last you a few hours. Definitely go into it blind.
 
Played this for couple of hours and still tons of things to unfold. Great so far!

Here's my notes up to the current point if you want to see them:

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"Finished" the game, 100% of database found. Had to bruteforce the last ~5% though
how do you get the "Yes" and "No" videos for the lie detector part without the admin_random code otherwise?

What a great experience and a truly well written and interesting story!

Here's the final version of my notes
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I really wish the woman was better at acting. If she were, this game could have been really, really great despite all of the sort of dumb contrivances in the execution.
 
I really wish the woman was better at acting. If she were, this game could have been really, really great despite all of the sort of dumb contrivances in the execution.

Yeah, she's not great but she has her moments. (I think Her Story is really, really great regardless.) I'm glad she got Best Performance though, the performance she gave was more vital to the game she was in than any other actor in any other game this year.
 
Yeah, she's not great but she has her moments. (I think Her Story is really, really great regardless.) I'm glad she got Best Performance though, the performance she gave was more vital to the game she was in than any other actor in any other game this year.
I can see that, even if I didn't really like her acting much. I feel like this will be a game I look back on fondly even though my feelings aren't super high on it in the moment, if that makes any sense.
 
I though the actor was great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ She aced
both personalities
, giving
them both distinct features but didn't fall into overstating some key differences just to point out "this is now Person X"
 
"Finished" the game, 100% of database found. Had to bruteforce the last ~5% though
how do you get the "Yes" and "No" videos for the lie detector part without the admin_random code otherwise?

What a great experience and a truly well written and interesting story!

Here's the final version of my notes
ve3qTKa.png
Someone needs to section you, heh
 
I though the actor was great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ She aced
both personalities
, giving
them both distinct features but didn't fall into overstating some key differences just to point out "this is now Person X"

I second your sentiment.

Viva was great (especially for a first role). I think she played it as close to real life as possible
without resorting to angel/devil cliches, making it nearly impossible to figure out if she is one person or a twin.
Beautiful work on her part.
 
think im gonna bite. any issues with playing this on ios? are there cross saves or would i have to start over between ipad and iphone?
 
Metroid Prime, Spec Ops The Line, and now Her Story with the best use of face reflections in firstperson view of videogames. Love that the lighting changes (like police siren red and blues) based on the content of the clip.
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Finished the game, loved it.
 
Metroid Prime, Spec Ops The Line, and now Her Story with the best use of face reflections in firstperson view of videogames. Love that the lighting changes (like police siren red and blues) based on the content of the clip.
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Finished the game, loved it.

Scared the daylights out of me the first time.
 
without resorting to angel/devil cliches, making it nearly impossible to figure out if she is one person or a twin.

From her acting, you can't figure it out, but from the hints, and the concrete evidence, it's pretty clear there is a real twin sister :

- Eve has a tatoo, clearly not Hannah. You can see Hannah's arm clear enough on
- The cop clearly speaks about many unidentified fingerprints that do not match with the
single person with personality trouble disorder.
- Hannah has a bruise, and one day after, Eve has nothing on her face.

Plus, when you watch all the videos from the steam folder, it's pretty clear that the twist was that Eve and Hannah were twins.

Very overrated game imo, the idea was great but I felt that the interraction with the game was very... minimal. I thought you could interact with the game more, like click on evidence on the video for exemple, pause at a crucial moment to watch elements you could have missed... Do what a true detective do in those kind of situation. But all you can do is watch the video, and all you have to do to understand the story is watching the person talking about her life. The story isn't that complicated and since you're free to type whatever you want on the search tab, you can find the truth pretty easily at 50% of the game. Fans of the game made it convulted as fuck with
the PTD false theory
, but really the story is too simple, it's just a matter of watching all the video and the actor wasn't good enough to make it very interesting.
 
What kind of ending are we looking at here? Is there some specific clip you're supposed to find or just 100% completion or something like that? I'm asking because this seems like the kind of game that might not have an ending or a roll credits moment in the traditional sense.
 
What kind of ending are we looking at here? Is there some specific clip you're supposed to find or just 100% completion or something like that? I'm asking because this seems like the kind of game that might not have an ending or a roll credits moment in the traditional sense.

It has a direct ending, though you can play after it. Not sure exactly what triggers, if it's just a specific scene, a certain percent (not 100 for sure) or just a certain amount of specific videos, but most people will see it.
 
What kind of ending are we looking at here? Is there some specific clip you're supposed to find or just 100% completion or something like that? I'm asking because this seems like the kind of game that might not have an ending or a roll credits moment in the traditional sense.
I got the ending thing after finding like 1/3 of the database so I think it has to do with finding the right number of important scenes. Which can unfortunately (or fortunately?) happen earlier than it should.
 
80 minutes in, I was loving it, and then I made the mistake (which apparently many others have) that the "clear session" button would clear the user session videos and not just detonate my savegame. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
 
Yeah, the clear session terminology is... unfortunate.


I thought the actress did a terrific job, I didn't feel like it was amateurish at all.
 
What an awesome game. It was nice to have so much agency in putting together the narrative.

I thought the actress did a fantastic job, too. If I had played this earlier it would definitely be on my top 10 list for 2015. Just so different from everything else I've played.
 
Finally got around to playing the game last night and finished it in one sitting. I loved it. Going to keep it installed in my laptop to play with non-gamer friends if the opportunity ever comes up.

Question about Hannah's parents:
Is it canon that they were deliberately poisoned by Eve? It feels ambiguous based on the videos I've seen so far but in my head Eve is a sympathetic character so maybe that's making me biased.
 
I did like that completely organically I typed
her story
as a genuine query and got the video that tells of
how the murder happened
.
 
Finished it after a couple hours (but still have quite a few videos to try to access though), but even though I loved it I have to say that it really pushes the boundary of what might actually be called "a game".

In essence, it is not really different from having a Youtube session and typing keywords relating to an event/ person you want to know more about I think.

In my humble opinion thus, it is not a videogame and rather a story you have to piece together, but I guess ymmv on that notion and obviously others disagree with me.

Great job by the actress (actually a British singer).

PS: the damn song is stuck in my head... :(
 
Man, I've just worked out (I think) that there's two ladies. At first I thought she was schizophrenic, but it actually looks like two identical twins. One (Eve) is dressed always in white, doesn't wear a wedding ring and always has a blank wall behind her when being interviewed, while the other (Hannah) wears many different outfits, has a wedding ring and looks to have shelves or something behind when she's being interviewed.
 
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