Immortality: Beginner Tips
Immortality is the acclaimed 2022 FMV mystery game from Half Mermaid Productions. The game features what is supposedly an uncovered archive of clips from three missing films starring Marissa Marcel. Inside each clip are clues to a series of mysteries about art, power, and the nature of life that could explain what happened to Marissa and those movies.
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On one level, Immortality is a simple game about finding clips in a meticulously constructed fictional archive, using image searching tools to do so. It's also about much more than that, including a story that, as it unfolds, layers several overlapping and dramatic narrative mysteries. In the very film stock itself, there are numerous secrets to be found.
To unlock more clips for your archive, you must search for an item in that clip that appears in another clip, unlocking the latter. This is what the game playfully calls a 'Match Cut'. In image mode, when over an item, an eye will appear in the cursor. The match can be very specific, to an actor for instance, or be any from a set of similar things, for instance, doors.
Some selections can be used several times to unlock many clips and can give you a broad base to work, such useful selections include Marissa Marcel herself, as well as clapperboards, which appear at the beginning of most film shots. Some items appear thematically in many spaces like pieces of art, plants, and cups.
A person's face must be mostly in view to select them, and background actors' faces will match cut to other background actors, rather than the same specific person.
There are stranger and more poetic connections too, for instance between reflected eyes and bullet holes. An abstract understanding of
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