![]() ![]() But in that case, I was talking about how it was removed specifically because it might have made people uncomfortable and detracted from the narrative about resolving dysfunctional family dynamics. I realize this might come across as kind of hypocritical of me, since I wrote a whole article teasing Hades for removing the incest from its Greek myth narrative. Except I can’t even give Twelve Minutes the same credit as SVU because at least viewers go into SVU knowing to expect the devious and taboo. That’s not only a tale as old as time it’s the exact plot of a Law & Order: SVU episode ( season 5 episode 15, “Families,” if anyone is morbidly curious). So just to recap, two people who have the same father unbeknownst to them end up falling in love and are about to have a child, when death comes along like the arm of God to strike them down for their deviance. I’m still not sure if all of this is meant to be taken literally, or if these repeated deaths are a metaphor for the protagonist trying and failing to find a future where he can marry his sister - if it’s the latter, then it would explain why Willem Dafoe voices both the detective and the father. The player can choose to end the game either by making it so that he never got together with his wife in the first place or by choosing to have his memories repressed. And in the end it turns out that the husband actually killed the father because he discovered that he was actually both of their fathers via an affair with the husband’s mother. It sounds intriguing, and the game is admittedly absorbing as you direct the man around the tiny apartment and try to not only stop him and his wife from being killed, but also discover where all this hostility is coming from. The husband is trapped in a 12-minute time loop and must figure out how to break it and save himself and his wife. Twelve Minutes is about a very banal couple in a very small apartment who’ve just discovered they’re about to have a baby (Personally, I’d be wondering where they’re going to keep the little tyke in that shoebox.) when they are ambushed in their apartment by a determined murderer who accuses the wife of murdering her own father. ![]() And it occurred to me that there are those of you out there who might not get how bizarre and uncontextualized the true ending of Twelve Minutes is - there are those of you yet unspoiled. ![]() But then I watched the recent Zero Punctuation and listened to Yahtzee try to describe it without spoiling. I wasn’t going to say anything about Twelve Minutes because I thought the denouement was so unbelievably *lifeless hand wave* that I didn’t feel there was anything I could conjure up. ![]()
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