Her Story 17+

One of the more chilling and unique gaming experiences I have encountered. After I completed the game it reminded me a great deal of the feeling I got from the Simogo trilogy of Year Walk, Device 6, and Sailor's Dream. I could not give 5 stars however because there seemed to be something missing in both the game play options and story. In terms of story I personally would have liked a little more of Hannah (either through description or video) and it was hard to care about victims in story due due to lack of information. Perhaps an enhanced addition with documents to explore would have tipped this game into a 5 star experience. Also an Easter Egg at end would have been appropriate, although I appreciate the fact that there isn't one because I expected it. Despite critique a must-play game for anyone who like progressive, unconventional gaming experience. Definitely a "game" changer.

I liked the mysterious nature of the game, but there is NO definite ending. You are never told anything or shown that you got to the end of the case or you have watched all the relevant videos. I kept waiting for something to tell me I solved it, but nothing ever did. It was only after I went online to chat groups that I figured out that I had solved the story literally the first day I started to play. I do not like games that have no sense of accomplishment or finality. The idea of the game is clever. But it’s ridiculous to not give it an ending or definite story. It’s like the makers want it to be so mysterious that they forgot to have an ending. It felt like they wasted my time because I kept searching and playing, thinking that there was more to the story because there was nothing telling me I had won or found all the videos. It’s also ridiculous that there are sites dedicated to the discussion of what the real story is. If no one is sure, then the creators have not told a tight, definitive story in the first place. If you are happy to just wonder and never know for sure if you’ve figured it out, this game is interesting. If you like closure, you might want to skip it.

Murder, mental illness, fairy tales, and skullduggery. How can you go wrong? The premise is interesting; you are investigating a case via short videos stored on an old desktop PC. All you have to do it piece it together with the limited tools at your disposal. Using keywords, you view the videos, seemingly at random, to pull the together the story of what happened. (There is a *trick* to viewing the videos in order.) I enjoyed the story, and the actress, Viva Siefert, is beautiful and intriguing. At the end, I am still left with questions about what really is happening, but a story that excites your imagination and curiosity after it ends is part of the fun. *** Technical issue: on the iPad, the game runs upside-down, making it impossible to use my keypad. Just saying. ***