Finished Dontnod's Twin Mirror..... and it's surprisingly good!
Considering how bad the reviews for this game were (65 Metascore) I expected much worse but I had more fun with the game than with their previous one, Tell Me Why.
Story-wise it's nothing special but does its job well enough to keep you entertained. It's your classic detective story (actually, you're a journalist but whatever). Since there aren't any episodes in this game unlike most games of the genre, there aren't any cliffhangers which is a nice change of pace.
The main problem of the game is IMO its short length. I completed it in only 5 hours. Not a lot of time to build up characters so it doesn't feel like you know most of them very well with maybe two exceptions. Another thing I didn't like or didn't care about is your imaginary friend (which is basically another version of yourself). He's just there without proper explanation (apparently since the main character's youth) but that's just something you have to accept.
Visually it's quite nice but it does have some performance issues in some areas. At first I couldn't tell if the game ran at 30 or 60 FPS so you can imagine there are quite some framerate drops as the game indeed targets 60 FPS but can noticeably drop to something like 30-40 FPS-ish in some open areas. Considering it's an adventure game, framerate really isn't important here.
It's currently on sale for $6 (which isn't really all that special as it's on sale quite often). I'd suggest to try it out for that price.
7.5/10
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