Every mention of this place or that person is a potentially important detail to help you figure out what's going on, and in Telling Lies, the devil truly is in the details.Įach clip is labeled with a date and time, which quickly becomes a very important factor in your investigation. From there, you'll begin to collect a list of nouns that help push the story forward. Simply figuring out each character's name feels like a huge win, and opens up entirely new avenues to explore. Telling Lies, on the other hand, offers a constant sense of discovery as characters, relationships, motives, and events are revealed, expanded, and even sometimes contradicted in each clip. Her Story felt like a journey to answer a single burning question, and each clip got you one step closer to that answer.

Evolving The GenreĪs connected as Her Story and Telling Lies are, their differences can not be overstated. The story Barlow has constructed (or de-constructed, rather) is a deeply personal and complicated narrative that doesn't rely on figuring out a twist to make sense of it all like Her Story does, but instead takes the player on a thematically rich journey through the lives of four very human characters. You are free to explore footage for as long as you'd like, only 'completing' the game when you feel satisfied that you fully understand the events as they happened. There is no progression system in the game per se.

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