Tell Me Why

Mixtape before its time. The dialogue makes it feel like an Xbox executive is constantly watching you play. The game at least tries to connect online in the start, so there is that. It is front-loaded with the slowest, dullest background exposition known to man. Perfect for disciplining inmates with.

I didn't hate it, but saying I was neutral would be an overstatement. I just disliked this game and think it's not worth your time, even if you get it for free. I'll primarily complain, because I can't even praise this game for the graphics, voice acting or soundtrack, it's all mediocre at best, so moving on to the problems this game has: First of all, I don't know who thinks lying to your audience is a good idea. It makes it so whatever predictions you try to make are immediately invalidated, because you weren't given trustworthy information. It's as if in a 2 hour long murder mystery movie, the actual killer was introduced in the last 20 minutes, like cmon, let me theoretize and come up with my own conclusions. Secondly, the game is so. Painfully. Slow. A walking simulator, for 95% of the game without the ability to jog and a ton of interactions we could do served no purpose whatsoever. Immersion? I guess? Trying to make me nostalgic about a house I've first seen just a few hours ago? Ugh. Finally, I didn't really like the characters. I lost faith in the twins after they felt entitled enough to bother their adoptive father while at work at the police department, currently taking a witness' testimony. So instead of being understanding and just wait, they decide to break into police archives. Then the verbal abuse of Sam, which is a self-aware functioning alcoholic, that tried his best throughout the years to help the twins and their mother. Then the inconsistency of knowing their mother was psychotic and abusive, but being mad at their aunt for calling the child services to look into their situation and help them if needed. The only reason I kept playing this game was the mystery, trying to figure out who the twins' father was, finding out who tried to burn the barn, what was whose role in this whole ordeal, finding how that one fateful evening really went down. But why bother, if I was lied to for the first 4/5 of the game, so whatever theory I had is out of the window, because I'm given basic information that contradicts my theory. Ugh.

Tell me why is yet another one of those "made by the developers of "X"" where in reality there is no one left from the original team/s. As much as i liked LIS, the writing difference between LIS and TMW is abysmal, i tried to genuinely approach TMW with having fun in mind but the writing is just bland and it forcefully tries to make you feel emotional at multiple occasions. Decision making has no effect anywhere except of the Chapter's 3 second half, as it impacts your ending, rest of the game has meaningless decision making Soundtrack and graphics wise i think that they did a good job, OST is pretty good as it fits the scenes and their respective environments, while the graphics themself aged well for a title like this Overall experience heavily depends on the player, in my case this game was nothing more than easy and free 100% that i will definitely never play again

Since this game goes free on every pride month, I expected something [b]ULTRA GAY[/b], but it's actually quite mild on that, and it's much better this way. The main plot point is that one of the twin protagonists is transgender [spoiler]try to guess which one just by looking at the screenshots![/spoiler], and there is also an optional gay romance subplot. Nothing that would upset anybody other than the most dedicated homophobes. It's a good adventure game. Alaska looks great, the environments are nicely detailed, the puzzles are solvable without moon logic, and short tales in the Book of Goblins were also really cool. It's obvious, though, that the story was cut short (originally 4 episodes were planned), as some plot threads remain unresolved, and some characters from the Book of Goblins are missing. Several reviews say the ending was lackluster, but I liked it a lot. [spoiler]The kids grow up and get to face the banality of evil.[/spoiler]

Well, I was really bored. The dialogue and the plot in general are of an average standard, but in terms of gameplay, the number of drawn-out sections is unacceptable to me. There’s also far too much exposition for my liking, and the game shoves every piece of information right under our noses, so we don’t have to work things out for ourselves. A story that should have taken a maximum of 5 hours has been stretched out to 10.

A sweet, sad, and complicated story. I picked it up because it was free for pride month, and didn't even look at the premise. The story definitely isn't perfect. At times I was rolling my eyes at some of the dialogue, and there are some glaring plot holes, but in the end there was a lot of heart and this story was clearly handcrafted with love. The puzzles are light and easy and I LOVE the book of goblins. And its nice to see a trans character take center stage in a story, and see everyone be surprisingly accepting. For all of Tyler's complaints about Delos Crossing, the people there were truly as kind as they could be to a transgender murderer coming back into town after ten years away. My biggest nitpick is that there is a choice to pursue a romantic relationship, and I didn't feel like romance over friendship in this case actually added anything. In fact, I feel as though the shallowness of the romance actually took away a bit from some of the larger themes. It was cute and sweet, but the love interest ends up pulling all of the emotional weight in the very short romance arc, with our MC giving very little in return. Having Tyler find a supportive friend who can help him step into the world might be the stronger route, and I regret choosing romance just because it seemed "right." I did like the theme that memories are imperfect and we have to choose the version of reality that we're able to accept. Sometimes, there are no answers left to discover. There is only what you believe. Unfortunately, despite missing quite a few achievements, its unlikely that I'll go back to complete this game a second time. The walking is just TOO slow and the first chapter is quite a slog. This last bit is a little bit of a spoiler- I was expecting more to be done with the police investigation and with Eddy. I was CONVINCED that there was NO WAY the police actually believed the twins' story. If Tyler was being confronted on the pier, then how did he stab his mother in the BACK? If Tyler was the one receiving the haircut, why was he holding the scissors? Mary Ann fell into the lake with the scissors in her back, but the scissors were never recovered, and Eddy was the first on the scene. There is a suspicious pair of scissors in Eddy's desk that we can't even interact with. Is this a flaw in the writing, or a hidden part of the story that we just don't get to engage with? Why can we never confront Eddy for other lies he told Alyson, like lying about her getting into a special program and hiding her acceptance letter? And why on earth does everyone in this town keep documents from 10 years ago on their top shelf???????

Sub 3 game trying to show psionic abilities. Dbh "Find Jericho" mission is 10x more interesting than this game thank god got this game for free

Was not that interesting to me.

The most unlikable characters whose whole personality is their childhood trauma, the mother clearly saw how obnoxious they would grow up to be and did the right thing trying to shoot them