Jerry Lambert

This is not really a game at all. It's a concept in story telling... and not a good one. You just watch a bunch of boring video clips in random order and at some point you will halfway figure out what the story is about and then it just ends. No twist, no satisfaction, no resolution, it literally just ends out of nowhere. And the post ending sequence is super lame. To watch the boring video clips it creates the illusion of being interactive by making you do a keyword search on a computer desktop and then it starts the video at that keyword. You then have to literally rewind the video to the beginning, which takes forever. By the way, you are watching the clips on a characters computer and I have yet to encounter a digital video player with a VCR like "rewind" function. Because, why would anyone put a freaking rewind function on a digital media player? There are some hidden camera clips. But mostly you only get to watch clips of one side of a conversation, like a Skype chat, but only one side. So, in a ten minute video clip you may just watch a person sit there and nod or eat noodles for six minutes. Eventually you might find the other side of the conversation. At some points they are also talking into a phone, but mostly it is Skype like chats. The thing is though, they are not wearing headsets or earphones. They can obviously hear the person on the other end of the video conversation which means that the video that you are watching should have picked up the sound on both sides of the conversation. But you can only hear the person that is shown in the video, which is stupid. Also, you can see the dim reflection of the character that you are supposedly "playing", which suggests the character is looking at a monitor, and it's dirty. I hate a dirty screen, but there is nothing that you can do about it. The actors are good with what they were given. But that is about all that is good about this so called "game". The main dude looks a lot like Tom Hardy. All of the women are beautiful. There is a lot of cursing so I used a lot of naughty words to find the videos. That was somewhat funny for ten minutes. There is no nudity or intercourse that I found but there are some really sensual solo scenes with scantily clad characters. The story is lame. The characters are lame. It's totally not a game by any definition of the word. It's a bunch of videos that tie a lame story together and you are forced to watch them out of order and one sided. You do no detective work or riddle solving or have any real role in the experience at all. If the story led to something, anything at all, then one might be justified in calling it a puzzle. But it doesn't. You are mainly a spectator. If this is a game, then binge watching Breaking Bad in random episode order on unlabeled VHS tapes that haven't been rewound is also a game. Actually no, Breaking Bad is a great story no matter how you structure it. This is more like binge watching Lost in random episode order on unlabeled VHS tapes that haven't been rewound. I figure that cam girls and the people who watch them will like this title. It's an exercise in voyeurism. I'm pretty open minded and by no means am I a puritan, but the whole concept and execution is perverted. I really do not understand why this thing was so well received by critics. This is not a game, it is a digital video player with a stupid cataloging system and even stupider VCR like rewind function. I thought that it was a waste of an afternoon.

The best cinematic achievement ever. Great storytelling and character development combined with amazing visuals. Every frame is a work of art, almost every frame is a masterpiece. Don't listen to the negative reviews of the final season. These are the rants of millennials who have never really lost anything or had things not go their way and who are accustomed to being spoon fed the same honey sweet recipe that makes them rub their bellies and say "yummy". This series is more like eating a raw horse heart and drinking fermented goats milk while everyone around you dies. It isn't sweet, it isn't pleasant, it isn't for the weak of heart or mind. It's for people who like to be surprised and who aren't afraid to feel real emotions.