Whilst it isn’t an absolutely pointless mechanic, it’s concerning that a game ostensibly about mystery-solving feels light on the mystery. But of course, that implies that you aren’t paying attention, that you can’t see the contradictory evidence or that you learn nothing from the incorrect choices. Chewing through 27 combinations isn’t super hard to brute force. The “hardest” mystery has 3 questions with 3 answers apiece. Unfortunately, in Twin Mirror, the mysteries were painfully easy. Make the solution easy enough to not be discouraging but hard enough that it is testing the player. There’s a real balance that has to be struck for mystery and puzzle games. And after completing the game and reflecting back, they not only build Sam’s character but also inform the gameplay. These mechanics serve as unique selling points. Rather, I’d like to explore the magical realism on offer in the form of the Mind Palace and the Double. The story, unfortunately, ends up being pretty boring and predictable, so let’s table that discussion for now. The good news is he has his Mind Palace to try and piece stuff together and a doppelganger that is trying to push him to be more social. He then finds himself embroiled in old relationships and, in due time, a mystery. Sam returns due to the passing of a close friend. There’s a really obvious Sherlock undercurrent to all this, hell there’s even a ‘Mind Palace’ in play. As such, this large sector sees him as some life-ruining menace, and he sees himself as a broody victim of circumstance. It likely saved many from crippling workplace accidents, but definitely put a large wedge of the population out of employment. Two years ago, an article he wrote led to the shutdown of a local mine. It’s established that Sam is returning to his hometown of Basswood under a cloud of personal issues. Sam is a journalist who is one of those staunch “truth is more important than people” kind of guys. It’s clear that the studio knows what its strengths are, but the small missteps of the game overall compound quite a bit. If critical consensus is anything to go on, Vampyr fares about the same.ĭespite releasing as a standalone project and not an episodic project, Twin Mirror feels like it has taken a lot of elements from DONTNOD’s more successful titles. I’ve played Remember Me and it’s, amusingly enough, rather forgettable. Perhaps this was a bad omen for Twin Mirror? After all, their prior standalone titles never really managed to have that much of an impact on the gaming landscape. Twin Mirror also brings about the return of the standalone game, a format DONTNOD has dabbled in but aren’t most well known for. In our review, we viewed Tell Me Why as not only a great game but a massive step forward for trans representation. Although Twin Mirror isn’t even the only title dropped by the studio this year, with Tell Me Why releasing back in August. They are best known for their work on the Life is Strange franchise. Twin Mirror starts off with some advantages, being developed by the well-established team at DONTNOD. In truth, while a subsequent playthrough was more positive, I still feel my hope was somewhat misplaced. You can’t hope for the game to get better when you’re watching end credits roll. I think it’s fair to say that a video game’s event horizon occurs right at the end of the experience. Have you ever heard of a black hole’s event horizon? It’s the colloquial point of no return. Even as I joked about the protagonist and the predictable story, I was silently hoping for things to turn the corner.
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I took this mentality through to my full playthrough of Twin Mirror too.
You’re supposed to talk about your experience, but generally, be light and hopeful about the full release. In my preview for Twin Mirror, I essentially did my best to walk the line of the format.
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