Technically speaking, the video quality was surprisingly good and looked great in 4K with good lighting, color, and detail. While some scenes will obviously exist in all paths there are major scenes and events in each path that keeps the experience fresh. I was impressed with just how much content each path contains. I did appreciate the ability to fast-forward through scenes you have already viewed to instantly arrive at the next decision point – something you will use heavily on the third and fourth viewing. For those planning on playing four times to get to all four endings I recommend you make notes of past decisions, as there is no handy narrative flowchart like Detroit Become Human or other games with branching stories. There is a genuinely interesting story going on, told with some awkward pacing issues that will have you wandering through woods or an abandoned hospital for no obvious reason. There’s not much I can say about the actual movie without spoiling. For those who want more time to make these choices there is a toggle in the options to pause the game rather than try to beat the timer bar. For the next 90+ minutes you will investigate numerous locations and talk to several people, all the while making spur of the moment decisions that can change the course of the narrative or even end your story if you choose unwisely. The movie opens with a suicide then we move on to the funeral where we meet Kristina, the protagonist of our story who decides to investigate the death of her friend. Rated M for a game and likely R if it were a movie, I Saw Black Clouds deals with some dark subject matter. Your choices also affect sliding scales for Denial, Acceptance, and Guild as well as personal relationships with two supporting characters and five personality traits like Strength, Honesty, Tact, Morality, and Introspection. The branching narrative spans 579 scenes that can take you to one of four possible endings. I’ve never played any of those other games, so if I had to make my own comparison it would be the Netflix movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch where you sit back and watch the movie and at key decision points you get to input a choice and effectively direct the film, or more accurately, change the script. I Saw Black Clouds arrives on Steam today the latest FMV interactive movie that follows in the footsteps of The Bunker, The Complex, and Five Dates.
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