You could certainly advance the argument that Sam Barlow single-handedly reinvented the long-derided “FMV game” genre with “Her Story,” a cinematic investigative game where players use search strin…
,” the long-anticipated follow-up to the indie hit that put him on the map. While it resembles “Her Story” in almost every element – even down to the simulacra of a PC interface that serves as the game’s central hub – Barlow says that the game represents a “generational leap,” such as the one between the original “Legend of Zelda” and its SNES sequel “A Link to the Past.
While Barlow is very canny to avoid spoilers, he says that the game still has some elements of law enforcement, albeit in a much murkier form than the previous game. One of the game’s most striking visual elements is the face of the woman you control silhouetted in the center of the screen, showing how she reacts to every revelation.
Though it’s a fascinating addition of another layer to the game’s core plot, Barlow says that the idea was borne of a vague displeasure about one of the design decisions of “Her Story.” In that game, players can easily view a diagram that keeps track of what slivers of footage they’ve seen, down to every last second.
In fact, originally, if enough time passed, the game would lock the player out completely, forcing them to start the game again if they wanted to see every scrap of video. “I felt very secure in that decision, until I was playing it one night, and I got so into the footage that I lost track of time,” Barlow says. “And then the game kicked me out, and I was so angry at myself. I realized that cut against everything the game was saying about what games could be, what investigations could be.
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