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1. guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 06:37:27 JST guizzy (in exile)
   Playing Silent Steel, a Win 3.1 CD interactive FMV game (on RG353V)
   
   It's a weird subject to make an FMV game of, considering when that came out you could also make convincing submarine simulators (Sierra's Fast Attack came out the year after and is pretty much as complete a single platform simulator you can reasonably ask for).
   
   It's like they made a SubLogic/Microsoft Flight Simulator the Movie The Game.
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   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 09:14:02 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     Finally beat it, using a walkthrough after a few honest attempts.
     
     It's pretty good for an FMV game, but it can't overcome the issues of the genre. Mainly that the forced structure of these games ensures that you get Game Overs through no fault of your own. You're given three valid courses of action, 2 of them will lead to death. You can't really formulate a plan, at best the game's result will reflect how you acted in accordance to the writer's imagined plan in this scenario. I guess for genres that are already heavily story based, like adventure/detective games it makes sense; you can't or couldn't make these kind of games without writing out extensive interactions between humans, so FMV doesn't really detract. But a submarine game is just a weird one to do as an an FMV adventure game.
     
     Still had a good time, though.
     
     I should have played the DVD version tho.
     
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGbQKxeMhI&t=0s
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