![]() ![]() Higgs starts asking questions around town, which leads him to the body of a journalist at the town newspaper’s office - the same place where he worked with Nick and Anna. The mind palace visualizes what happens in the fight until Nick is satisfied he has a theory that fits the facts. You can’t leave the scene until you find all of the right facts and can then use your mind palace to reconstruct what happened in the bar. ![]() He examines the evidence of a brawl, and it’s a lot of work for the player. Higgs returns to the bar in the morning and sneaks in. That’s where we learn that the mind palace can be a place of great emotional fear for Higgs, and his alter ego twin has to talk him into some kind of peace of mind. The next morning, Higgs wakes up from a nightmare and finds his shirt in his motel bathtub, drenched in blood. A police officer named Declan breaks up one of the fights, but Higgs gets into it again later on. Higgs winds up drinking too much, presumably with one of the former miners who still has a grudge against him. But Higgs finds that no one wants to consider the topic of murder at the wake, and Anna is among those who don’t want to talk about it. She asks Higgs to investigate, and he promises to do so. Joan tells Higgs she was hurt that he abandoned her and stayed away so long. As he arrives at the bar for Nick’s wake, he runs into Nick’s daughter, Joan “Bug” Waldron, who suspects Nick was murdered. ![]() Two years later, Higgs returns to the town filled with emotional dread to attend Nick’s funeral. This is where the story turns more supernatural.Īfter Higgs left town, Anna hooked up with his best friend Nick. It’s a place he goes to when he needs to figure things out, and we experience it as a 3D scene in the clouds. The mind palace is where Higgs works out his feelings and logical problems, a place that helps him notice connections other people miss. He has conversations with an alter ego, a kind of twin, who helps him make decisions. As Higgs replays his memories upon returning to the town, we see the scene play out in the visualized dreamland of his memories and subconscious. In a flashback within his “mind palace,” Higgs remembers how he had proposed to his girlfriend Anna, who turned him down, saying she had already told him marriage wasn’t something she wanted in life. ![]() For me, the idea that a journalist can be a tortured soul feels realistic, and it’s also a bit of a relief to view a journalist as a hero, rather than an enemy of the state. And Dontnod tells a story in which the inward journey is just as important as unraveling facts in the real world. For the player, this game tests the idea of whether you can ever “go back” to who you once were. While he thought that was the best move at the time, he finds that his departure left ripples in the community. Many people blamed the messenger, so Higgs left town. The mine closed, throwing a lot of the townsfolk out of work. He had left Appalachia two years earlier, after writing about a dangerous mine that was the economic lifeblood of the town. Main character Sam Higgs returns to his fictional hometown of Basswood, West Virginia as a tortured soul. Twin Mirror capitalizes on the returning home formula with its new psychological thriller. And the decisions you make have a “butterfly effect,” which means small choices lead to big changes that alter the characters’ fates.Įditor’s note: This story has spoilers. But what makes the games relatable for audiences is that they’re populated with grounded and ordinary characters who suffer from problems like anxiety, low self-esteem, and social alienation. Characters also have supernatural powers, like telekinesis, mind control, persuasion, and danger-sensing. The themes Dontnod tackles are serious subjects for any video game, and the French game publisher has made its experiences more entertaining with game mechanics such as time rewinding, which allows you to unwind decisions and see what might happen if you make different choices. ![]()
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