This is where you’ll find yourself feeling the most in control during the whole game, even though the choices come thick and fast, and it’s these moments of tension that are most immersive as a player. The golden frame on the front is not flat against the mirror. At one point, just before he’s about to have an anxiety attack, you get whisked to the mind palace and have to perform simple mini-game style tasks to distract Sam and calm him down. Things can get quite stressful during your investigation and Sam is not the most together person as it is, since he’s prone to blackouts and pill popping. It’s these moments when you, as a player, feel real pressure but be aware this isn’t a black and white narrative and Dontnod have managed to create something that feels much more complex than the normal binary, moral decisions. His alternative take on important situations has you questioning your instincts and sometimes your mental health. This twin, an imaginary friend from your childhood, looks like a cross between a shrink and an Armani model and regularly pops up when there’s a big decision that needs to be made. Your twin is also sitting in the back seat of the car while she’s talking, telling you if you don’t you’re a really bad person. After two years of silence, you feel you owe her some of your time and agree to investigate. Once you arrive at Nick’s wake his daughter confronts you and confides that there might be more to her father’s death than meets the eye. Working through these investigations is beautiful, as everything is rendered in glittering sliver shards – even a fox jumping into the road looks like a futuristic cubist painting.
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Playing as Sam you’re able to enter a mind palace, which works similarly to the same idea from the Holmes TV series, offering a crystal cloud version of reality where you can explore important scenes to investigate and piece together clues. At the first mention of an abandoned mine you can’t help but remember the ending of Night In The Woods, and hope for some similar supernatural shenanigans, but this isn’t that kind of game. Sam published a story that forced the mine to close after an industrial accident and this left many people unemployed, ripping the heart from the rural community. There’s been a death in the small town of Basswood, West Virginia and while investigative reporter Sam Higgs had no intention of returning to his hometown the victim is his best friend Nick, another journalist, whose suspicious death brings old memories, and conflicts, to the fore.Īs Sam reacquaints himself with the citizens of Basswood you can feel the animosity in the air.
What makes Dontnod’s approach potentially more immersive, compared to a very linear game like The Last Of Us, is your choices and their implications in Twin Mirror there is the added element of your imaginary twin to expand on your internal narrative and offer a different point of view – and often some good advice. We all like a good story and The Last Of Us 2, with its deep and compelling narrative, has swept the board at this year’s Golden Joysticks.
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