Hi everyone, and welcome back to My Week Unwrapped, where I discuss all the games I've been playing over the last seven days. I actually skipped last week because I spent most of it playing Telling Lies, so it didn't seem to make much sense to write a roundup for that and a couple of other games. I then spent most of this week playing GRIS, so this will still be a…
Telling Lies By: Sam Barlow / Annapurna Interactive Telling Lies is the latest nonlinear, searchable full-motion video game (FMV) by Her Story creator, Sam Barlow. It's a much bigger game, and therefore it takes more persistence to find all the clips. I wrote a review here, but also recorded my first playthrough with it. So I'm going to include all my gameplay videos here, as well as offer some helpful info to…
Telling Lies By: Sam Barlow / Annapurna Interactive Last week, I wrote up a very vague preview of Sam Barlow's Telling Lies, the spiritual successor to one of my favorite games ever, Her Story. I emphasized the length and scope of the game as, instead of one actress, we now get a full cast. The four main characters are played by Logan Marshall-Green, Angela Sarafyan, Alexandra Shipp and Kerry Bishé, and the…
Telling Lies By: Sam Barlow / Annapurna Interactive Sam Barlow's Her Story is one of my favorite video games, perhaps the one that's stuck with me the most. I clearly remember back in 2015, getting it a few days ahead of release and thinking I would just play for a little bit and then get back to cleaning my apartment. But my home stayed dirty that day, because I couldn't put my…
