I love Black Mirror but am not sure I liked this. I didn’t actually know what it was, just randomly put Netflix on and saw there was a Black Mirror I hadn’t seen- it took me a while to realise I could actually make choices!!
I really love the idea but fundamentally don’t really like the story that much. How do you know you’ve got to an ending if there’s no credits? (e.g I got to the scene with the psychiatrist and chose ‘jump out of the window’ and got the director saying ‘cut’, but then it looped back to the ‘give me a sign’ scene).
The password on his Dad’s computer also confused me- the first time- I got that right, and saw what his Dad had been doing (or what he thinks his Dad has been doing?? Is this part of his mental illness?) But then later I was looped back to the same password scene, with two different password options- but I knew they were both wrong because I got the right one last time and that wasn’t listed.
I chose to ‘follow Colin’ initially- and chose to make him jump. Later he’s asking where Colin is, and the office guys don’t know- I’m wondering if you never watched this scene (eg chose to see the psychiatrist rather than follow Colin) would they still be talking about Colin being missing? Kitty saw what happened though (if it did really happen?!) and so surely everyone would know?
It also feels like your choices get narrower (e.g throw tea over computer or shout at Dad. I shouted at Dad, but later it loops back to this and your choices are ‘throw tea at computer or destroy computer’- like you never really had a choice and were always going to have to destroy the computer. But maybe that’s the point! )
It’s a fantastic idea, I’m just finding it confusing now and realise I do like my loose ends tied up neatly, which I guess won’t hapoen here if there are so many possible endings! Might watch a few more loops tomorrow though!