Lost in translation? Maybe, but that’s an FMV game we’d buy in a heartbeat. It features actor Jiro Sato in a largely unrelated and surreal speech in which he ponders the death of his best friend, begs his wife for a higher allowance and generally acts hilariously strange. However, if you’re looking for some entertaining film while you wait, check out the Japanese advert for Death Comes True on YouTube. With the benefits of modern film-making and interactive technology, the journey is likely to be much more fun than the old FMV games of the ‘90s, so for that alone Death Come True is worth watching. The choices you make along the journey will lead to all kinds of weird and interesting outcomes. We expect Death Comes True to be much like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, but multiplied by a million. On the plus side, he has time-travelling powers that allow him to explore all the options, and a sidekick detective to help prove his innocence. Unfortunately, the man is an amnesiac, meaning he can’t be sure the accusations aren’t true. Death Come True also revolves around a crime, as a young man wakes up in a weird hotel to find himself accused of murder. Which brings us back to Death Comes True, set for release on June 24 on consoles and PC. A woman is interviewed seven times by the police and you search through the video database to discover the truth. Made by just one person, it was a very clever FMV game that used the premise of a police video interview to understand the story behind a crime. Most recently, however, the excellent Her Story showed that the FMV scene still had potential. Why spend most of your time watching a game, when you could be immersed and interacting in the world? The genre never really took off, with good reason – as games became more 3D in the ‘90s, the appeal of interactive film just didn’t have a niche.
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