IMMORTALITY Reviews

ggggg

Masterpiece

Can’t stop thinking about the mechanics behind how they got this to work ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5

Very complex and very well acted.

really fucking weird, nobody achieves anything alone

I really wanted to like this game, but several years in and they still haven't fixed the audio. The audio quality is so bad you can't hear most of the dialogue and to play the game you have to depend on subtitles. Personally I find it to be so intolerable that I can't and won't finish the game. I can't say anything positive when the developer has put no effort into fixing it.

A slow mystery that drags during the early build up, but with a emotional and thoughtful pay-off for the intended audience. Recommended if you have any interest in broader film culture, world history and experimental story-telling in videogames. Worth experiencing for the mystery, suspense and thought-provoking subject matter. Some scenes with nudity, theatrical gore, intimate scenes and SA (both performed and implied) Pros: + Compelling story that has a number of endings - see it all the way through if you can, but you should reach the credits after about 8-12 hours with plenty left to do. + A compelling performance from an ensemble cast, led by Manon Gage and Charlotta Mohlin's performances which form the bulk of the game's narrative thread + Simple mechanics that reward patience and keen observation - if you are the sort of person to scrutinize a photograph or film scene for framing or objects placed around the scene, you will be quickly rewarded with a full series of negatives that furthers the story Cons - Discovering new clips will suddenly shift you from one clip to another, which can really affect how you experience the story; watching the clips in either their intended editing sequence or filming order should go a long way in helping to keep track of things - Using a controller is a must for fast-forwarding/rewinding and scrubbing through clips, but steam input or xinput on the Steam version is not implemented well with some strange input behaviors - Some users report stuttering on decent hardware, refer to PC Gaming Wiki for possible solutions - The method of discovering certain clips is quite finicky: the hardest clips to discover are those without actors in them, as you will have to find the right objects from other clips to unlock them. Many objects are held by hand, so an imprecise click can end up discovering a hand in another scene. One clip seemed to require point-and-click logic to unlock, where you have to click on a wedding band of a character to unlock a specific scene. While each clip has multiple triggers from other scenes, some triggers are more reliable than others in a frustrating way. - Some hidden clips appear to be unwatchable after you trigger them for the first time - There is no encyclopedia or library to review characters or objects found. While you can get a labelled image of an actor or object after they are selected from a viewed clip, navigating through collected images to see who's who and what's what is not convenient

I write this as someone who enjoyed Her Story tremendously and had a really good time with Telling Lies. 'Immortality' is a triple-whammy of ultra-pretentious, art-school wannabe noodling. Yes, I got the twist. Frankly it was quite underwhelming and disappointing. The overall experience feels extremely disjointed, disorienting and never gives you a single reason to care for any of the characters on screen. Even after spending five hours with this and unlocking the majority of scenes, I couldn't bring myself to continue, because I simply had zero emotional investment in anything on screen.

I think I started this game twice and swiftly abandoned it after feeling bewildered as to how to interact with the game. Third attempt--holy **** I got hooked quick. I think the games main barrier to entry is the head space you need going in. I don't know how to exactly describe the head space except if you are hooked on youtube shorts, you aint in the head space. If you like Slay the Princess, Outer Wilds, Blue Prince, Return of the Obra Dinn--you have capacity to reach the head space. 9/10.