![]() She doesn’t want you to be unhappy.”įather: “ Not always. In the Mind Palace Sam reminds of a conversation with his father when he was a child:įather: “ I know, she (Sam’s mother) is always pushing you to make friends. The relationship between adult Sam and little Joan is really awesome, I would say poetic, something that is very hard to find in movies, novels or comics, not only in video games. The latter is another rebel, another oucast who refuse hypocrisy of society and escape other people. ![]() His only weakness is his own emotions! At Dontnod they are obsessed with superheroes! Luckily this time there are no superpowers in Twin Mirror! Sam has trouble socializing even as an adult, he plays video games as an escape from reality, he and his friend Nick are Pac-Man nerds! He has very few friends, he spends his time playing with Joan, Nick’s little daughter. Sam is like his childhood hero, Tardigrade-Man, the super-hero of the outcasts! He can survive almost anything, even all the evil and corruption in the world. Sam is a sensitive boy who perceives the wickedness of his peers and the hypocrisy of society he is a rebel but is too fragile, he has not enough strength to fight, so he takes refuge in himself. The Double or Him is his companion, the representation of what Sam would like to be but he cannot be: able to adapt to society, to fascinate and set up good relationships with people. He has imaginary friends, he talks to himself more than to other people. At Dontnod they are obsessed by social outcasts! Little Sam has trouble socializing at school. Let’s start from Sam‘s psychological and existential profile.īy accessing memories in the Mind Palace, we learn that he is a social outcast since his childhood. Awesome game, I enjoyed it so much, I played it three times in a row, I miss it, I would need one a month of games like that! Let’s analyze the meaningful story and content of Twin Mirror. You can tell that it’s a Dontnod game, and fans of Life Is Strange should like it.YOU’RE WARNED, THIS IS THE MOST SPOILERING ARTICLE I EVER WROTE, IT’S MEANT TO BE READ ONLY AFTER YOU COMPLETE THE GAME! IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE GAME, YOU CAN READ THE FIRST PART OF THE REVIEW HERE! 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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