A Twisted Tale

Ein wirklich tolles Spiel, erinnert tatsächlich an die guten alten Point&Click Juwelen aus den 90ern!

Wenn ich lese, dass es ein Erstlingswerk ist, WOW, Gratulation! Schönes Point & Click Game, sehr gerne habe ich dieses Spiel unterstützt. Und sehr gute deutsche Vertonung, freue mich bereits auf die nächsten Episoden!

Ich war überrascht wie schön dieses Spiel ausschaut. Das wurde dann aber getrübt durch die fehlende Story. Nach 3h Spielzeit hab ich keine Lust dieses Spiel weiter zu spielen, was sehr schade ist, da ich dieses game sehr gerne Supportet hätte. Ich liebe Point and click games, aber ich war schon lange nicht mehr so gelangweilt von einem Point and click game. Sehr Schade

Un primo capitolo (di sette) che, nonostante molti, se non troppi, riferimenti ai classici, ed una parte narrativa carente, riesce ad intrattenere grazie ai numerosi enigmi di stampo classico. Da valutare la cadenza dei prossimi capitoli e se riusciranno a garantire una maggiore personalità

If you’re going to take influences, why not take them from the best? This is very evident in A Twisted Tale, which pays beautiful homage to the classic adventure games made by LucasArts, and it actually does a pretty fine job at it. The moment the game starts, I’m instantly reminded of The Curse of Monkey Island, so the game is off to a good start. We are instantly greeted with a beautiful opening cutscene which sets up the adventure. The main character Vio is sucked through a portal, and a few seconds later she appears in a forest which connects to a larger floating village. The game doesn’t bother setting up the backstory, but in my opinion, it doesn’t have to. Instead, you’re instantly solving puzzles and exploring the weird surroundings. Because the main sources of inspiration are those classic LucasArts titles, those familiar with these games will feel right at home. The objective is to reactivate the portal you arrived through, but as you probably can already guess, it’s a lot easier said than done. At its current state, A Twisted Tale includes just the first episode. You can expect roughly two hours of gameplay, but you can add in one extra hour if your puzzle solving skills are not top notch. The game has some very tricky puzzles which utilize quite nicely all the general traits of the genre. You talk to NPCs, combine inventory items, and on a few occasions you also need reactions to perform certain actions within a limited timeframe. Overall, the puzzle design is solid, but there are a couple of more outlandish puzzles which require the use of the good old “try everything on everything” approach. If you pit this against any LucasArts title, there’s no question who’s the winner, but when compared to the general quality of modern adventure games, I would say A Twisted Tale does provide a good and fair challenge in terms of the puzzles. The visual inspirations are derived from the already mentioned The Curse of Monkey Island. This LucasArts title is in my books one of the prettiest adventure games of all time. Unfortunately A Twisted Tale doesn’t rise to its level, but the game is very nice to look at. There are some weird choices in some of the animated cutscenes, though. While the introductory cinematic is very well put together, some in-game cutscenes seem to be ripped from a completely other game. These do break the immersion, and I would’ve left them out completely. There are some technical issues as well. I have an ultrawide monitor, which is compatible with the game, but I couldn’t get the screen recording working for the life of me with the game on full screen. Windowed everything worked great, but the game could really use some settings for this one. The game runs only on 1280 by 720 resolution, which made the text borderline unreadable, at least for my old eyes. The game is completely dubbed, in both English and German. While I genuinely admire the effort, I’m not a big fan of spoken dialogue in adventure games. There are subtitles, but it’s very easy to click through the next dialogue line by accident. In more times than once I had no idea what the characters were talking about, because an essential part of the dialogue was clicked away by accident. It would be great if the auto advance of dialogue would be disabled if the user preferred just the text. Now the dialogue advances at the speed of the spoken lines, which is a bit annoying. There should be seven episodes in total, and I’m very optimistic to see how the story continues. Hopefully the small technical hiccups are fixed in future updates, but overall I really enjoyed my time in the weird world of A Twisted Tale.

There is a lot to like about Chapter 1 of A Twisted Tale: from the hand drawn art style, decent voice acting (I especially like the antique shop owner) and music which complements. The puzzles were mostly logical with some that were challenging at times. I would have like to have seen some more world building in this chapter but overall I had a fun time. I am very much looking forward to the next instalments.

Funny little game with a nice retro touch! Highly recommended!

Wunderbare Grafik, Bedienung super einfach, keine lästigen Puzzle- Schiebe- oder Geschicklichkeitsrätsel, die den durchweg interessanten Storyverlauf verzögern. Charaktere wunderbar, aber gerne noch ausbaubar. Rätsel für echte Adventurer des alten Schlades doppel plus. Hotplotanzeige fehlt leider. Mehr von diesem Spiel bitte schnell und gerne epischer in den Kapiteln (zu diesem Preis!) .-)