![]() Big doesn’t always mean better in Barlow’s latest – its vastness can sometimes leave the investigation feeling rudderless, overwhelming you with detail – but its ambition is startling, and if you can bear spending an inordinate amount of time watching actors staring blankly and nodding, the sudden plot twists rival any of this summer’s blockbuster thrillers.Īs Sam explained in our extensive interview about the game, the story kicks off with a woman entering her apartment, plugging an external hard drive into her laptop and booting it up. ![]() In gameplay terms, this boils down to a much bigger cast and a much wider narrative to unravel. Whilst the earlier game had you sorting through fragmented clips of seven fictional police interviews of a victim’s wife to try to uncover the real story behind his disappearance, here players are given a whole NSA database of video files to find, rewind and fast-forward through, captured from the Facetimes and webcam footage of four different people over two years. Telling Lies is like the developer’s 2015 cult indie hit Her Story told on a Hollywood scale. If the premise of scrubbing through very personal FMV-style recordings to piece together an enigmatic story sounds familiar, it’s probably because creator Sam Barlow has been here before. ![]() It’s during the eighth minute of watching a stranger read his daughter a bedtime story in Telling Lies that I decide that this might not be the video to crack my case wide open, but at least there were plenty more private conversations where that came from to spy on.
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