IMMORTALITY News

IMMORTALITY has been nominated in the 2022 Golden Joysticks Awards!

We are nominated for:

🔥 BEST STORYTELLING
🔥 BEST STUDIO

If you enjoyed the game, please show us some love and vote for the game -- it's easy to do!

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Voting in these categories closes at 16:00 PDT / 19:00 EDT / 23:00 GMT on Friday, November 4 2022.

[h3]About The Golden Joystick Awards:[/h3]
The Golden Joystick Awards honour the people and products that have transformed the games industry in 2022. The event features over 20 categories, the majority of which are voted for by the global gaming public. The event was first held in 1983 and since then it has grown to become the world’s longest-running public-voted gaming awards brand.

As well as the awards the show will also feature new trailers and exclusive content from across the gaming world.

In this patch:
* Added persistence to clips connected to the Another Reality achievement and prevented duplicates appearing.
* Added further failsafe for endgame credits sequence to catch rare reported lock up.
* Fix to prevent Cinematographer triggering early in some situations.

I find that there’s quite the divide between video games and cinema, and that isn’t necessarily a problem for either industry, but Sam Barlow’s latest game – Immortality – shows just how powerful intertwining the two can be, when done effectively.

Jean-Luc Godard, a renowned French-Swiss film director and critic, once said “a story should have a beginning, middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.” Immortality is perhaps one of the most ideal examples of Godard’s words in practice. As you try to unravel the mystery of Marissa Marcel (Manon Gage), you find yourself using a Moviola, threading together random clips from the three movies that she starred in.

Marcel’s first film, Ambrosio, borrows its plot from the Gothic novel, The Monk. It’s equal parts sexy and unnerving, and the temptress character that Marcel plays seems to flow into her next film, too. Minsky followed a year later with a new director, John Durick, and saw Marcel play an artist’s muse in a murder-mystery. Finally, 20 years later, Marcel worked on Two of Everything – once again with John Durick, and after a period of inactivity from the actress. In this one, the tone is even darker than before; Marcel plays a successful pop-star with a body double, but everything goes awry.

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This patch has these fixes:

• For players who have seen the endgame but had the game freeze before the credits, this will unlock the achievement for finishing the game. If you have previously passed the conditions for this achievement, it will unlock on loading into the menu. NB: We have been unable to reproduce this issue on Steam, but are including it here as a failsafe.
  
• A fix for the issue where players were not triggering the Another Reality achievement. If you have previously passed the conditions for this, the achievement will unlock on entering the grid.
  
• A fix for the issue where players who force quit the game, or in some cases use a cloud save, when loading the game fail to regenerate thumbnails (the game will tell you it is ‘reloading save data’. This should now be fixed.
  
• A fix for the issue where players who enter and exit Image Mode without teleporting during the tutorial will lose subtitles until they return to the grid.
  

Half Mermaid, the three-person studio led by FMV maestro Sam Barlow, released its latest game today. It's called Immortality, and like Barlow's past games, it's a live action video adventure in which players steer the storytelling by watching mysterious scenes out of order. We gave it a glowing 95% in our review, calling it Barlow's "best, most thought-provoking game yet." That's literally all I want to know about a story-heavy game before giving it a shot myself...
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