NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? An immersive interactive movie where you are the editor and the film might be haunted
EXPECT TO PAY $20/Free on PC Game Pass
DEVELOPER Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid
PUBLISHER Half Mermaid
REVIEWED ON AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz, 12 GB RAM
MULTIPLAYER No
LINK halfmermaid.co
Players begin with a question posed in the Short History of Marissa Marcel, written by Immortality director Sam Barlow: what happened to the actor? Why has she been absent for 20 years? Why were none of her movies released? Where is she now?
Luckily, the answers may lie in the large cache of film Barlow and his crew – producer Natalie Watson and programmer Connor Carson – found back in 2020. “After carefully collating and scanning the footage,” Barlow writes, “we have created this piece of computer software in an attempt to preserve this work and share it so that Marissa may live again in the hearts of audiences”.
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