It’s your weapon and your shield as you navigate your way through the seemingly endless amount of content (it does end, thankfully, though it sure feels like a mountain to climb at the games beginning). You play as an investigator who attempts to piece all of these stories together, her outline very faintly visible throughout the game as a reflection on the screen and providing the odd cut-scene as she talks to her partner, lurking behind her at milestone moments in the story.Īs with any solid narrative-driven interactive experience the story soon becomes Telling Lies primary mechanic. Your visuals are little more than a laptop screen, used to play the evidence videos connected via an external hard drive.
At first Telling Lies is somewhat intimidating. Sam Barlow evidently has a gift of storytelling, allowing you to fall into his tightly crafted narrative with little more than your own intent focus and a metric ton of characters talking into a video camera. The phrase ‘you need to bloody pay attention’ hasn’t felt to apt in gaming since, well, Her Story.
This time around there’s a tangled web of a story that you need to piece together bit by bit as you go, stranding together the truth from these characters that on the surface, isn’t easy to decipher. From the creator of 2015’s Her Story, it’s another live-action FMV thriller that tasks you with dissecting a plethora of video footage to find the common threads and reach a resolution, good or bad.
Whether it be the Wales Interactive / D’Avekki output or Flavourworks fantastic Erica, as technology improves to allow you to feel more involved than ever in these live-action gaming experiences, Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies arrives on consoles after, well, you could say a hugely successful year on Steam to take its place and stand amongst the best the genre has to offer. How does it translate? The Finger Guns Review įMV-based narrative driven stories are in one hell of a good place right now. Sam Barlow's Her Story follow up Telling Lies lands on console.
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