Summary
One of 2022’s highest-rated games, Sam Barlow’sImmortality, is coming toPlayStation 5on Tuesday, January 23 for $19.99.Immortalityoriginally launched in 2022 for PC and Xbox Series Xas a day one Xbox Game Pass game, and at the time, it generated quite a bit of buzz.
Immortalityearned a rare perfect 10/10 scorefromEdgemagazine, with that high praise followed up by highly positive reviews from many other outlets.Immortality’s overall critic rating was an impressive 88 by the time it was said and done, making it one of the highest-rated new video game releases of that year. It even found itself nominated for three different awards at The Game Awards 2022, though ultimately failed to take home any of the prizes.
SoonPS5gamers will get to see what all the fuss is about, asImmortalityis finally launching on PlayStation come January 23. Sam Barlow said he is “thrilled” to finally bringImmortalityto PS5, and that one of developer Half Mermaid Productions' goals was to share “Marissa Marcel’s life and work with as large an audience as possible.” Marissa Marcel, for the uninitiated, is the actress at the center ofImmortality’s story, portrayed by Manon Gage.Immortality’s main goal is for players to solve the mystery of what happened to Marissa Marcel, and PS5 gamers will be able to take a crack at it soon enough.
What is Immortality?
Like Sam Barlow’s previous games,Immortalitycombines live-action film with video game mechanics. The primary way players interact withImmortalityis by examining film clips, rewinding, fast-forwarding, and manipulating them in search of specific scenes, people, or objects. Players can then click on whatever they want in the scene, which will in turn take them to a different scene. Players bounce around from one movie to the next, analyzing scenes from the films, behind-the-scenes footage, Marcel’s talk show appearances promoting the movies, and more, all to unravel the big mystery at the center of it all.
Critics heaped praise onImmortalityfor its creepy vibes, unique premise, and brilliant storytelling. That being said, not allImmortalityreviewswere glowing, with some criticizing the game for being dull at times, especially if one gets stuck and can’t figure out how to progress the story further. The consensus is still mostly positive though, as evidenced byImmortality’s 88 overall critic rating and the “Very Positive” overall reviews it has from Steam users.
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WHERE TO PLAY
Immortality is an interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story. Use the cinematic ability to teleport from scene to scene to explore a treasure trove of newly unearthed footage from the three lost films of Marissa Marcel and traverse decades of movie history.Alan Fischer directs Ambrosia, adapting M. G. Lewis’s notorious Gothic novel The Monk. He casts unknown Marissa Marcel as the infamous Matilda.John Durick writes his thriller Minsky with Marcel in mind. Set in New York City, the movie concerns the death of a famous artist, and Marissa stars as the muse suspected of murdering him.For his swansong, Durick teams up with Marcel again as she returns from a lengthy hiatus. The movie Two of Everything is a subversive thriller that explores the duality between a successful pop star and her body double.None of these movies was ever released. They were thought to be lost or destroyed until now.
