[Spoilers] Black and White, Rewinded Scenes.

[JadeTheFiend]

So, I've been playing this game for 7 hours, gathering clips, unraveling the story, watching the movies at my pace (That explains why i'm no way near finishing the game 7 hours in) and rewinding when i hear the sound cues.
The thing is, i bought this game due to Jacob Geller's recommendation, and i found myself unable to do something he managed to do in his video essay. (Of which i only watched a small portion)
Sometimes, when i rewind on the sound cue, i get access to an enigmatic, creepy scene with an unknown character. Sometimes, this character appears in black and white, semi-transparent scenes superposed onto the video footage.
The thing is, Jacob seemed to be able to transition from this Black and White, transparent scenes to a fully colored version of it, with audio included. I haven't managed to do this, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm playing the game wrong, or missing a feature entirely.

[Werwolf]

When you rewind and see the semi-transparent scene, pause the video and keep rewinding frame by frame (if playing with controller, hold left on the dpad). After a few seconds it transitions to that scene.

[Thanatopsis]

It is one of the major flaws with this game. I played the whole game to the credits in about 3 hours. I only scrubbed backwards a couple times and only saw a brief flash of a few superimposed black and white images the entire game. No actual hidden clips.
After completing without seeing any of these subtext clips, I went through again and realized I had to slowly scrub backwards when those ominous noises appeared. Frame-by-frame didn't work at all for me. To be able to see the hidden clips, I had to scrub very slowly after the superimposed clip appeared. I often had to go back and forth 4 or 5 times before it would lock into the alternate video.
It was a pain in the ass and an absolutely terrible game mechanic. Major thumbs down for that.
I watched 5 or 10 clips and got the major points. Then I watched the Jacob Geller video that was recommended. I realized I understood it as well as I could. I'm glad I didn't waste any more time scrubbing hundreds of clips looking for hidden ones that really weren't that interesting and didn't add to my understanding of the basic premise.

[Eoz Josnack]

Originally posted by Thanatopsis:

It is one of the major flaws with this game. I played the whole game to the credits in about 3 hours. I only scrubbed backwards a couple times and only saw a brief flash of a few superimposed black and white images the entire game. No actual hidden clips.
After completing without seeing any of these subtext clips, I went through again and realized I had to slowly scrub backwards when those ominous noises appeared. Frame-by-frame didn't work at all for me. To be able to see the hidden clips, I had to scrub very slowly after the superimposed clip appeared. I often had to go back and forth 4 or 5 times before it would lock into the alternate video.
It was a pain in the ass and an absolutely terrible game mechanic. Major thumbs down for that.
I watched 5 or 10 clips and got the major points. Then I watched the Jacob Geller video that was recommended. I realized I understood it as well as I could. I'm glad I didn't waste any more time scrubbing hundreds of clips looking for hidden ones that really weren't that interesting and didn't add to my understanding of the basic premise.

For others having trouble with this, there are actually reliable, repeatable techniques for accessing these scenes; it doesn't have to be such a struggle. I've noted some in the thread about playing with a keyboard. Accessing as many of these scenes as I could drastically changed my interpretation of the events in the game, so I think it's worth it.