Trouble is, as Sam puts it, he's ghosted Nick for two years after leaving Basswood in a hurry, and now Nick's ghosting him by being dead. Sam has returned to his hometown to attend his best friend Nick's funeral. But then Sam opens his mouth - and things inevitably go downhill from there. It's an impressive way to start, not least because of how good Twin Mirror looks, and Dontnod knows it - just a few minutes before reaching his destination, protagonist Sam Higgs gets out of his car and glances down at Basswood from a viewpoint awash in the rays of the setting sun.
The images are accompanied by a sombre song by folk artist Sean Rowe. The player will need to decide which truth they will believe, but the true ending will come if the twins' relationship was strengthened throughout the game, and Tom Vecchi's insights have little effect on the overall outcome.Awkward, riddled with plot holes and unintentionally offensive, this is Dontnod's worst offering to date.Ī car drives down a quiet road, past rows of trees, until you eventually glimpse a town, its long-abandoned factories stretching into the skyline. They confront him, but Tom tells them not that Mary Ann was trying to kill Tyler, but rather herself because of her mental instability. Tessa seemingly knew of the affair based on her previous comment to twins. It's too difficult, and the twins separate for a night after having fought about whether or not remembering his face is the right move.Īfter spending a day apart with their individual thoughts, Tyler and Alyson are finally ready to surface the memory of the face of their father, who is revealed to be Tom Vecchi, Tessa's husband. The Mad Hunter represents the twins' father, and the siblings can use their Bond to recall his face. Alyson's struggle only worsens as they dig up more secrets and the truth becomes more blurred.Īs Alyson's health becomes further unraveled due to blaming herself for the events of the past, the twins struggle to remember one key ingredient to their mothers' death: the Mad Hunter. Slowly, it's revealed how unhinged Alyson is becoming after dealing with such trauma and guilt for so many years, while Tyler, on the other hand, received the necessary therapy, resulting in him being more mentally stable than his sister. Rather, when Alyson heard her brother calling for help with the Bond, she stabbed their mother in the back to defend Tyler. Luckily, most familiar faces in Delos Crossing are accepting of Tyler's transition, even if some of their views are a bit misguided.Īlyson's demons come at the end of Chapter One when it's revealed that Tyler wasn't the sibling that killed his mother.
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Tyler, though he's already grown comfortable in his own skin as a trans man, must face and confront friends of their past that are not accustomed or aware of the change. While the twins work to rebuild their relationship throughout the game, the siblings also battle their own demons. The task between them now is to sell Mary Ann's still-empty house, but when they begin to sort through the objects of their childhood, the twins rediscover their twin telepathy, the Bond. After an awkward yet positive reunion between the siblings when Alyson picks her brother up, they take a ferry and return to Delos Crossing. In the first playable moments of Tell Me Why, it's now ten years later, and a grown-up Tyler is cleaning out his dorm in Fireweed where he went to juvenile hall for the murder of his mother, while a grown-up Alyson has been living with Eddy, the chief of police in their hometown of Delos Crossing as well as a good family friend. RELATED: Twin Mirror from Life is Strange Dev Gets Release Date This is the biggest question that the twins face: why their mother was in this state and if she was actually pointing a gun at her son. She had seemed upset by Tyler having his hair cut off, and Tyler claims that his mom, Mary Ann, was trying to kill him.
The game opens up to a child, a young Tyler, telling the police that he stabbed and killed his own mother after she chased him down.