Ive always loved Telltale games adventures. The love of them started with the Walking Dead series, which complimented the long running TV series, with a point and click narrative adventure where you could make choices that impacted the story adventure and the outcome of the game you played.
Twin Mirror is a narrative adventure game by Dontnod Entertainment, released on 1 December 2020 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. I picked it up this month on sale on Xbox for a couple of quid, in the January sale., but then realised its also part of the Humble Bundle on PC if you subscribe to their Choice monthly selection. It is a game where players control the investigative journalist Sam, who has returned to his hometown of Basswood, West Virginia, and must navigate between the real world and his “Mind Palace” to discover clues and solve mysteries. It very much feels like Alan Wake, which is one of my favourite Xbox games, but the gameplay video I posted within 40 minutes shows off most of the annoying points about the game, and the writing
This section of the game takes place about one and a half hours in, and the gamer has you looking for clues to solve the mysteries you discover as you come back home to the town you grew up in.
Here you are trying to find out what happened to a friend u had a fight with the night before, but within this short segment the game lets you
- insult the owner of the coffee shop, and then let her continue with narrative dialogue like nothing just happened when the whole game is about making the right choices in order to see the end result
- Not lot you approach 2 dodgy looking indivudals hanging around on a street corner when you are looking to find out what happned to someonee – why are they there?
- Then, it lets someone teleport into the cafe after they message you, who clearly wasnt there when you were just there!
Its such a pity, because the story itself could be good, but these annoying gameplay issues drag this game down and make me want to consider discontinuing already, and these are my type of exploration narrative adventures I love!
If you want to watch the beginning of the story, ive streamed it too and you can watch it by heading over to my Twitch TV channelk. Let me know in the comments if you think I should continue with the adventure or not…