You have to remember it, and that is a sign of how clunky a database as a user interface can be. If you forget to rewind the conversation, you may miss something that is important to the plot.

But it will start playing at the point it mentions the keyword. When you search on a keyword, you often can discover a new conversation that will advance your state of learning in the mystery. If you search for Chris’s name, you only get the top five results in the search, as opposed to all of the videos available. If you are a bit paranoid about that, it’s understandable. I just wondered if I had missed one of his videos. Too often you get just a slice of a particular character, and that’s all you ever get. One character named Chris plays a major role in one scene, but that character is virtually unknown before that. But in Telling Lies, you can come across 30 characters. If a character has a small role, you know it. In a movie, you get to see characters from the start to the end. You can’t search for spoilers like, “Tell me what the ending of the story is.” You then control the pace and direction of the narrative by doing searches that generate addition revelations and keywords. You can’t speed this process up because it’s not a smart database. The story is a linear mystery, but it unfolds in a nonlinear way based on which words you search for first. You watch the clips where those words are spoken, and then you piece together the story. You explore the database by typing search terms. The footage (taken from surreptitiously obtained smartphone video surveillance) covers two years in the intimate lives of four people whose lives are linked by a single incident. Except you forget that you are playing as the woman, who has her own role to play as a character.Ĭheck out our GamesBeat review vault for past reviews. You play the entire game sitting in front of the laptop searching through that video for clues. Telling Lies starts out with a woman who sits down in front of a laptop loaded with a stolen National Security Agency database full of film footage.

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