Loretta Reviews

Waaaaaay better than I thought it would be! This was genuinely an enthralling thriller!

An incredibly thrilling character portrait game about a broken marriage and the many secret they keep from each other and themselves. You are Loretta, and you are not fine, it´s hard to say when did it start and what triggered, but Loretta is extremelly unhappy and circumstances just keep clogging to make things even worst. The game is a narrative experience above all, there are some minor puzzles (that once completed you don´t have to repeat if you are not starting a new game but rather reloading previous chapters on the same save) and some minor inventory and item management, but it´s very minimal. There are choices along the way though, and this tailors the tale as you progress, even if some choices lead to dead ends, this are very specific choices but have tremendous weight on the story. I really don´t want to dig mutch into the story and that´s the main appeal of the game, but that´s because I trully think this one needs to be experienced. Like I said, it´s a fascinating character study of this broken woman. The graphical style and minimalistic audio design match perfectly with the tone it´s trying to provide and it´s written masterfully, slowly pealing back the mystery around the past of the marriage and other side plots that collide masterfully on the ending, which there are several (6 definitives and various fake ones along the way). It´s on the short side, and even replaying to see the other endings won´t take much, but it´s a very very unique psychological thriller that makes me hype for anything else this developer has store for the future, playing it was like that one lazy sunday you saw an old detective movie you didn´t knew existed and now you are telling all your friends they should see it ´cause they don´t make movies like that any more. Keep me hooked from start to finish and now I wish there was a sequel, a remake, a movie adaptation, a comicbook or anything just to give me more of this mesmerizing character.