As you are only ever able to view the first five clips of any popular search term, you'll need to find less common words and phrases to wheedle out the more obscure clips. "Simon," by contrast, returns 61 results. "Hope" might turn up just a single entry, but if the snippet is short, with only a few words of monologue, then it can be a valuable hit. You fire search terms at the game in the same way that one fires missiles at co-ordinates in a game of Battleships, hoping to hit a target through a combination of guesswork and clues that guide your strikes. This inspires you to try less common terms, in order to fill in the more remote blanks. The database can only return a maximum of five relevant clips, even if you manage to find a search term with scores of hits. Hannah might mention the name of a co-worker, or of a place that the couple liked to visit, and you hurriedly tap the term into the waiting box, in the hope that it'll fill in further, somehow related blanks. While the information you receive has no particular chronology, something of a meaningful arc emerges naturally, as you use scraps of detail from one clip to inform your next search term.
In this way you begin to dredge through the archive, gradually piecing together the bones of a story about what happened during those weeks. If your chosen term, such as "Robbery" or "Yes, I was there" appears in the transcript of one or more clips in the database, they are presented for viewing. Rather, you must use search terms to query the database. You cannot access the clips in chronological sequence. The database, a mess buried inside the tape archive at Portsmouth police station's homicide department, holds close to three hundred individual clips, spliced from a series of interview sessions with detectives, held during the summer of 1994. We don't know whether or not the case was solved at the time, but in Her Story, the latest game from Sam Barlow - designer of Aisle and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - you're given access to the historic interview tapes. The missing person file was, shortly thereafter, stamped with murder. Her Story is a novel piece of interactive fiction, applying the flexibility of game structure to the ambiance of the murder mystery film.Įditor's note: Our review is very light on narrative details, but if you want to head into Her Story with completely fresh eyes be warned there are very mild spoilers below.ĭuring the summer of June 1994 Hannah Smith reported her husband, Simon, as missing.
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