![]() ![]() This latest from Dontnod, Twin Mirror, is different from its predecessors. Life is Strange, Life is Strange 2 and Tell Me Why all tell a deeply personal story of a person of marginalized identity, exploring some of the unique perspectives and formative events that comprise their lives. Generally, when you play a Dontnod game, you expect to have a sentimental, thought-provoking experience that deftly melds its dialogue with an innovative narrative device. You can tell that it’s a Dontnod game, and fans of Life Is Strange should like it.Over the past several games to be released by Dontnod Entertainment, the studio has built itself a reputation. ![]() This game offers some different gameplay experiences compared to other Dontnod games, but it’s all part of the same effort to build rich worlds with compelling characters and deep stories. That was where my preview ended, but I’m looking forward to uncovering the rest of the secrets of Basswood. I thought this latter part of the two-hour game session was pretty well done, as it visualized different scenarios and helped Sam come up with the best answer. I won’t describe it more, as it has spoilers. That was where Higgs’ powers of deduction are really put to the test. He has to reconstruct something that happened based on the evidence before him. That’s where Higgs’ investigative powers are really put to the test. He has to uncover enough facts to get to the next stage of the mystery. Higgs keeps running into people who know him. As the player, you have to stop and talk to everybody in the local pharmacy and the cafe. We learn that nobody likes him, and nobody wants him there, except new people who haven’t met him before. As the bar owner arrives, Higgs slips out again. You can’t exit until you figure out what happened. Higgs figures out that he got in a fight with someone and they wrecked the place. You have to collect the clues and try to reconstruct what happened. ![]() He returns to the bar and slips in from the back. Then he finds his shirt in the motel bathtub, covered in blood. He wakes up with a hangover and no memory of what happened after he left. He gets drunk at the funeral wake at a bar. The news and the failure to rekindle any kind of relationship sends Higgs into a new tailspin. As the player, you have to make choices.Īnna is at the bar, but she is distraught because she had been dating Nick, who never told Higgs that he was dating his ex-girlfriend. We don’t know who this person is, other than that Higgs constantly argues with the man - a twin or double - as he makes major decisions. ![]() He also has a conversation with a guy who exists only in his head. Returning from his flashbacks to the present, Higgs realizes he stayed in the Mind Palace so long that he misses Nick’s funeral and has to go straight to the wake at the bar. One of the things he replays in his head is his proposal to his girlfriend, Anna, who turns him down. This helps him notice things that other people miss. Sam goes to his Mind Palace, which visualizes facts that he can see. That’s when the game goes a little supernatural, as Dontnod games often do. When Higgs analyzes facts, he pulls together a lot of threads into his mind. ![]()
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