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They're apparently going away for good on May 12, to allow the platform to do tech upgrades that would otherwise break the movies.
In light of this, I watched Kimmi Schmidt vs. the Reverend and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch this weekend.
Kimmi Schmidt was cute -- and had two great Game of Thrones and Prince Harry jokes -- but there was only one right path through the story and the movie kept forcing users back to it, which was disappointing. Amusingly, you can end the movie before the opening credits if you try to just make Kimmi happy.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was much more ambitious, and was about the very nature of Choose Your Own Adventure narratives, parallel timelines and free will. There are multiple endings, all of them various degrees of unhappy (because it's Black Mirror) but it's easy to keep going through them due to the looping nature of time, etc. I found this one more worth doing. Not the best Black Mirror episode (the episode does itself no favors by repeatedly namechecking Metalhead, which is an A+ Black Mirror), but I found it surprisingly throughtful. And, ironically, the new season features a sequel to Bandersnatch, which will have to stand alone after Monday.
They got rid of the previous interactive movies a while back, including the Puss in Boots one, which my youngest loved, and the excellent Minecraft Story Mode.
In light of this, I watched Kimmi Schmidt vs. the Reverend and Black Mirror: Bandersnatch this weekend.
Kimmi Schmidt was cute -- and had two great Game of Thrones and Prince Harry jokes -- but there was only one right path through the story and the movie kept forcing users back to it, which was disappointing. Amusingly, you can end the movie before the opening credits if you try to just make Kimmi happy.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was much more ambitious, and was about the very nature of Choose Your Own Adventure narratives, parallel timelines and free will. There are multiple endings, all of them various degrees of unhappy (because it's Black Mirror) but it's easy to keep going through them due to the looping nature of time, etc. I found this one more worth doing. Not the best Black Mirror episode (the episode does itself no favors by repeatedly namechecking Metalhead, which is an A+ Black Mirror), but I found it surprisingly throughtful. And, ironically, the new season features a sequel to Bandersnatch, which will have to stand alone after Monday.
They got rid of the previous interactive movies a while back, including the Puss in Boots one, which my youngest loved, and the excellent Minecraft Story Mode.
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