Immortality Review - preview/review
(hx) 02:34 PM CEST - Sep,01 2022
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Sam Barlow has somehow done it again, raising the bar for the FMV / interactive movie genre once more. Immortality is yet another masterpiece of storytelling. Immortality is the third game by Sam Barlow and the Half Mermaid team, and it's easily the most provocative yet. Some of the scenes are deliberately uncomfortable, with sexism rife in the earliest movie - Ambrosio - and violence and abuse found throughout. The game does come with a content warning right up front, with the kind of language and behavior faithful to the eras in which each film was 'created'. As with Barlow's previous titles, the acting capabilities here are astonishingly high. The entire game is, of course, real cinematics (there's no gameplay footage here), and you're going to be watching these clips on repeat for as long as it takes for you to solve the game's various mysteries - none of which we'd dare spoil here. There are some familiar faces here, but the intimacy with which you'll come to know the characters will render all recognition totally pointless. They are just Marissa, and John, and all the others who'll you'll come to know so well - especially in those moments outside of scenes, and beyond the yells of cut and scene.
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