1/9/2023 0 Comments 12 minutes ending![]() ![]() ![]() You play as the husband who must figure out the meaning of the loop while preventing the cop from killing you and your wife. In Twelve Minutes, a husband and wife are attacked by a police officer, and they’re all stuck in a cycle, repeating every - you guessed it - 12 minutes. ![]() In Deathloop, protagonist Colt wakes up on a beach, reliving the same day over and over again while being taunted by Julianna, a mysterious woman who knows more than she lets on. Spoilers for Deathloop and Twelve Minutes ahead. In games, the time loop can also work in conjunction with the gameplay in ways that make sense. When done right, it can be an effective way to tell a story, especially if the ending pays off. It’s a pretty basic premise that has been explored in games and film before. In both cases, the main male character is stuck in a time loop, and the player must unravel the core mystery to stop the cycle. Twelve Minutes is an interactive narrative adventure, and Deathloop is a first-person shooter. Annapurna Interactiveĭeathloop and Twelve Minutes debuted in 2021 and have way more in common than you might think. This prompts a quote the wife cites earlier, which alludes to finding zen through mindfulness (aka living in the present moment).Twelve Minutes tries to be profound and sophisticated but ends up being disappointing, with a priority on shock-factor. The only true ending without a return to the apartment is the ending where players click on the book their wife was reading that's on the bookcase in the discussion scene. The pocket watch is still there though, which means he can return to the conversation with the father. If the husband agrees to leave his wife now and never tell her the truth, he ends up alone in the same apartment. That's because this scene isn't a flashback, it's the present. ![]() In the two endings that cause the credits to roll, the husband once again has a flashback to a discussion with the father, but this time the father is bald and the setting is different. In 12 Minutes, Dafoe's cop and the father are in fact one and the same. Like in the plot twist for Metal Gear Solid V,voice actors are always an important clue. However, to make sense of the different endings a key piece of information is required, which is the answer to who exactly is Dafoe voicing? If the player chooses to stay with the wife or tell her the truth, then the time loop continues to repeat. The details between endings may seem minute, with the big choices being to stay with your wife and not tell her, to reveal the truth, or to agree to leave and never see her again. There are essentially five different endings to 12 Minutes, all resulting in an achievement unlocking but not all causing the credits to roll. It is a dark twist, but it also poses a big question: how did the husband forget that his wife is his sister? Especially considering the clue that leads to this is the discovery that the nanny's name is Dahlia, as is the husband's mother's. This means that the protagonists have been unknowingly been committing incest and will soon produce a child of that incest. It turns out 12 Minutes' protagonist is the killer all along, but that truth is largely overshadowed by the fact that it's been established the wife's half-brother, the product of an affair between her father and her nanny, is the killer. 12 Minutes then transforms into a dark and shocking story designed to make the player feel uncomfortable. The clues feel like pieces of a jigsaw fitting together until the big twist at the end and suddenly nothing makes sense. The main goal of the game then is to repeat the loop, using clues and environmental factors (such as the light switch electrocuting anyone that turns it on for a second time) to uncover the mystery. Not long into the game, it is revealed that the wife's father has been killed, and the cop is seeking revenge. ![]()
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