For example, typing in the word “husband” will return a clip in which she talks about meeting, marrying, and possibly fighting with her husband. You can type in any word or series of words this woman may have said at any point during the interview process, and the database will give you clips of any interviews in which she said those words. The transcripts of every interview this woman has given while in custody are searchable within the database. How you go about finding answers to those questions is completely up to you. The single keyword searched for is “murder.” That's just what a guilty person would say, right?įive videos are pulled up at the start totaling maybe 5 minutes, and all the videos raise a litany of questions about who this person is, what she has done, where she is right now, and why she did it. One should at least have a grasp of the setup, You boot up the game, and you’re presented with an ancient relic of a mid-90s police database, already keyed into a series of grainy VHS interviews with a shy, evasive woman speaking to an unseen, unheard interrogator. Every word that inches up to what Her Story ultimately becomes cheapens what’s waiting for players down this particular rabbit hole. The catch-22 is that talking about the game involves a spoiler minefield. It’s a 200-piece psychological puzzle offering the cheap, gamey thrills of putting two parts together, but it is much deeper, darker, and even sadder when you realize what the picture might be when it’s finished. But that’s where Her Story gets its power.

It’s not a moment the game is counting down to, and out of the context-the context I’d built over the half hour or so-it could even be written off or missed. All it took for Her Story to become brilliant was a name.

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