Thoughts on Twelve Minutes?

There is probably a better way to do this sort of game, but bravo to the developer to take their shot at it.

As a person who likes visual novels, I can see the appeal of a game that allows for many meaningful choices in a very short amount of time. All teh while accounting for those choices without using save games as a crutch...most visual novels don't even try.

So Twelve Minutes shot their shot, they made what they made, and in the end they at least tried.

I enjoyed the first couple of hours of it. Once you figure out how to deal with the cop, it loses its momentum because all you have to is put the pieces together and it really does not stick the landing. I found out by accident how to zap the cop so that was underwhelming and I wish there had been more ways to do it. I though I was maybe halfway through the game but it took me about 2 hours to do the last 2 actions of the game and that really soured me on it. Based on the discourse on this game I was expecting it to go to even darker places so I was a bit disappointed by that.

Good game to play on Game Pass, but I would be upset if I had paid for it.

Spent the wee hours of Labor Day playing this laborious game. The act of playing it, what with the constant micro adjustments to the character's actions, felt like troubleshooting a PC that keeps crashing for no reason. I was either struggling or laughing at its hyper-specific logic and mechanics ("Don't mind me, Daisy Ridley...I'm just gonna hide in the closet to pass the time while you cry on the sofa."). It is the shortest game I played that could not end any sooner. At one point I saw a satisfying conclusion on the horizon, but suddenly the game swerved down a Pornhub subcategory and just kept going till I stumbled upon the credits. I did get a chuckle imagining what Professor X, Rey Skywalker, and Green Goblin were thinking as they discovered this dubious plot twist.