- Publisher: Half Mermaid
- Release Date: Aug 30, 2022
- Also On: iPhone/iPad, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
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Aug 30, 2022It surprises just as often as it confounds, and that in itself makes this a rather extraordinary experience. It’s also perhaps one of the purest examples of video games as art we’ve seen to date: a piece of art about artists. Does that make for an enjoyable experience? Not always. At times it’s drawn-out, boring, a chore, even, as you obsess over every bit of footage available to you. But are we glad we’ve played it? Absolutely.
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Sep 6, 2022For creator Sam Barlow and his studio Half Mermaid Productions, the push to eccentric cinematography continues with Immortality, as the video game elements fade further into the background. Some may find this odd collection of indie flicks enticing, but many will be disappointed by the lackluster interactivity.
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Aug 30, 2022Immortality lacks the satisfying detective work found in Her Story and Telling Lies, instead opting for randomness and an almost complete lack of control as to what part of the game you're wanting to explore. The story itself is enjoyable to piece together, but finding each piece is a frustrating and deeply repetitive process.
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Oct 5, 2022How do you even critique this? The actors are brilliant, the production quality as well, but the game feels random at times and offers very poor gameplay.
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Sep 1, 2022Immortality is the antithesis of the belief that games are an art form, as its lofty attempts to establish prestige are built upon the language of another medium entirely (cinema). It relies on the spectacle of the project alone and not the substance, leaving an empty shell confident in but not convinced of its own self-importance.
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Sep 19, 2022Despite its ups and downs, the whole mystery surrounding Marissa Marcel is fascinating and deserves to be discovered in order to understand how video games, even supported by cinematic techniques, remain the best plastic material to mold unique ideas, stories and sensations. [Recommended]
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Aug 30, 2022Sam Barlow's epic mystery of self-reference and cinema is an elaborate, ingenious enigma - one that would be even better if it didn't want to be solved.
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Aug 30, 2022Immortality, the latest from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, is a game that functions like a movie. Its excitement lies within clever or opulent shots, lines delivered with pleasurable believability, and an alluring plot. But it has a real bad attitude about art.
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Aug 30, 2022The only way to fully appreciate the scope of this project, flaws and all, is to throw all expectations of story and structure out the window, and realize that the simplistic divide between film and games is holding us back from doing so much more with either medium. [Polygon Recommends]
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Aug 30, 2022You can like it for the formidable performances and the unbelievable replications of different periods of cinema, for the sets, the artistry, the surprises, the big thinking and the weirdness hiding just the other side of the curtain, for the attention to detail and the vaulting ambition, for the way it's thoughtful in how it stages certain things. But, for me, Immortality wasn't as thoughtful about other things. Perhaps I've just had enough of Sam Barlow's ideas about women on camera for a little bit. I'd quite like him to have ideas about something else next time.
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Aug 30, 2022Immortality gets under your skin; flickers subliminally in your head. It becomes a part of you, whether you want it to, or not.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 44 out of 84
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Mixed: 18 out of 84
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Negative: 22 out of 84
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Sep 6, 2022
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Aug 31, 2022
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Aug 31, 2022Took awhile to get into but this game is amazing. Really enjoying it as a good chill game.