Who's Lila is yet another Twin Peaks inspired project, with an interesting twist.

While I was traversing the school's boiler room, I couldn't help but remember the moment in the last episode of Twin Peaks' S2, where Cooper is running around in circles, as he finds... something inside there.

And to be quite frank, this was the entire experience throughout this game. Who's Lila nails the vibes of David Lynch to almost a fault, bringing the beauty and the horror behind his works to the front of the screen.

The biggest (and most interesting) aspect of the game is dealing with your character's emotions, by literally modeling his face. It's bizarre and strange, and yet it works really well. As for gameplay... this is a point and click game, with a LOT of secrets inside and outside of the game itself. Like, I'm not even joking, this game has endings for days. I played like 5 hours or so and I don't think I got even half of them yet.

Overall, what I can say is this needs to be played as blind as possible, just looking around for what the game shows you. As in, the game's website, the steam page, since those things hold some secrets you can use inside the game. If you're a fan of Whodunits (or in this case... well...), you're definitely gonna enjoy figuring out Who's Lila.

What makes us, us? What makes us conscious beings living in this world?
"I think, therefore I am", is the popular principle of Rene Descartes that one generally points to as proof of their existence, but aren't one's thoughts, by definition, entirely imaginary?

Our memories are in the past, our futures uncertain, only thing we have for the present are our thoughts and our personality, things that have no physical interpretation and exist in the grey area between biological functions and consciousness. But this is undeniably a real thing, humans aren't philosophical zombies, there's an unique, subjective aspect to one's experience that is tied to a singular point of view. As soon as we try to take this experience and move it to something understandable for others we abandon that point of view.

We don't tend to think about these things unless we question our own self, our ego that we made up and the body we inhabit. When we fear losing control, we think about what it is to control one's self, one's own mind.

One of the creepiest things that can happen to us, is feeling like we have something other than ourselves vying for control in our own mind, but the reality of the situation here is far more terrifying. We play in the body of William overtaken by the being Lila, an entity/consciousness with inscrutable goals. What does it want in this body?

The game is a fascinating journey, we control Lila, push it towards different objectives, some making much more sense than others, and some random ARG shit which while annoying gives a certain feeling that the game is crossing boundaries in the real world. We change our behaviour, our expressions and our actions. In a sense we are playing around in this world, as we try and find an answer to the question of. Who's Lila?

This game is spooky, the contorting face mechanic is fun and original, the story, ARG elements, and meta references are cool. I liked learning about the characters and getting endings was satisfying. I also really enjoyed the soundtrack. It's worth playing.

You replay the game to get different endings, each with a different tarot card's name. The game overstays its welcome with some of said endings being hilariously contrived and I personally would not be bothered to figure out how to get them without a guide. Maybe that's more of a testament to me than the game, but needing to sit through that interrogation scene 3+ times was tiresome.

I like how the game is stylised, but the dithering makes certain scenes with high detail (ie. a burned out house, a theatre) look like boiled shit. Also there's a couple chase scenes that are ass.

Let me tell you, "Who's Lila?" is one hell of a quirky game that'll make you say "What the fuck?" more times than you can count. The whole gimmick here is pulling your dude's face around to make expressions, which sounds bonkers, and buddy, it is. Imagine trying to look sad and accidentally making a face that screams "I just farted and hope no one notices." That's the kind of gold you can expect. The gameplay is as bizarre as a three-legged dog wearing sunglasses.

Now, don't get me wrong, this game is as entertaining as a clown at a funeral. You spend half the time laughing at the absurdity of yanking your character's face into a grin that could scare a baby. But holy shit, does it pull you into its creepy little world effectively. Every creepy smile and furrowed brow pulls you deeper into the mystery of who the hell Lila is. It's like playing charades with a ghost – somehow fun and unsettling at the same time.

But here’s the kicker: it's not all rainbows and freaky smiles. Sometimes the game feels like it’s trying too hard to be weird, and you're left sitting there with your thumb up your ass, wondering what to do next because the puzzle logic is more twisted than a pretzel. Still, "Who's Lila?" earns a solid four out of five stars from me. It’s not perfect, but if you’re looking for something as weird as a singing fish trophy and as engaging as watching drunk people argue, give it a whirl. You won’t regret it... or maybe you will, but at least you’ll laugh your ass off.

Who is Lila é o mais próximo que posso descrever de um jogo pós moderno, que aborda tópicos existenciais e filosóficos de maneira fantástica. A minha única crítica ao jogo é que certas partes, como a de perseguição ou de procurar a sala da Martha, são chatas em segundas jogatinas mas fora isso nenhuma parte do jogo foi chata para mim. Alguns dos melhores momentos que eu já tive em um jogo estão atrelados a Who is lila, desde o final do hierofante inteiro até o segredo de quem é a Lila, esse jogo é uma obra de arte.
Porém, devo temperar esses elogios com uma crítica. Algumas das conquistas do jogo são extremamente obtusas, uma exigindo que você corrompa um arquivo e, pra platinar, você precisaria resetar seu save pois uma conquista é mutuamente exclusiva com outra. Sim, isso faz parte do estilo do jogo de certa forma, especificamente o aspecto de não platina e devido às conquistas “get tricked” e “Clever One”, porém o fato que eu estou criticando isso mostra o quão bom o jogo é em te fazer querer ver tudo que ele têm disponível.

Super atmospheric. It's Lynchian but instead of being total nonsense Lynch schlock there's some halfway interesting things about tulpas and memes and personal identity.

The meta stuff kinda misses the mark for me and honestly I think the game would be better off without pulling you out of the game for any of it. Similarly, if the draw of continuing to play this game is getting every ending, you're probably not going to have much fun just trying every single branch in the narrative, but looking up a guide kills it a bit too... I'd definitely recommend just making a ton of saves at points you find interesting and trying different things from there.