This article is written by #White Feather Night Tea Party # Nan Joe
preface
The transcendence comes from twins, but it brings endless loneliness. You have spent your whole life guarding me, and I didn't understand you until the end. After going through the vicissitudes of the world, it is enough to find that it is enough to have you with you for a lifetime. I don't want to be extraordinary, I just want to walk with you through the smoke and rain of Pinghu Lake, and pass through the mountains and rivers of time.
When I first experienced this game, because of the superpower setting, I thought that I had to be a "superhero" to save the world and give a voice to the weak. However, in the process of playing, he found that he was just an "ordinary girl", with the same childlike heart as other girls, but because of the "twin extraordinary" reasons, he had to embark on this road arranged by others.
This game does not have the so-called national righteousness, but presents the path of a little girl's growth and redemption before the player. Playing feels like having a dream, waking up for a long time or moving, maybe at the last moment of the game, players can understand why the game is called "Extraordinary Twins".
When the truth surfaces, it may dawn on you to understand what has happened in the past. But the past is gone, and the only thing that can be grasped is the present, and only the choice of right and wrong can be made.
The author first came into contact with interactive movie games was to see the headline recommended "Invisible Guardian", and then waited until the PC end of "Detroit" to officially know Quantic Dream Studios, and experienced the trilogy in turn, truly understanding the uniqueness of interactive movie games.
A brief description of the Quantic Dream trilogy
Interactive film and television works, represented by Quantic Dream Studio, "Rainstorm", "Extraordinary Twins", "Detroit: Becoming a Man" is really one less to play, and the feeling of playing is like watching a TV series, I can't wait to watch it all at once, but I am reluctant to finish it.
Compared horizontally in the trilogy, the plot direction of "The Extraordinary Twins" is better predicted than that of "Detroit: Becoming Human" and "Rainstorm", and you can roughly know the impact of each choice when playing, so it is very suitable for some forced players to play a good ending in a week.
Its main story is the story of the little girl Judy and her otherworldly brother soul body, linked to each other, supporting each other for 15 years. Alan Peggy and William Dafoe starred in the lead role, and utilized the most advanced motion capture technology of the time, making every scene look as delicate as a real shot. Below I will elaborate on its plot design, human design, and gameplay.
Excellent plot design
Whether an interactive movie game can move people, to put it bluntly, is to see whether its plot design can make people indulge in it, that is, there is a so-called sense of immersion. Therefore, in general, interactive movies use multi-choice and multi-ending design and QTE mechanism design.
As a game developed by Quantic Dream Studios after "Rainstorm", "Extraordinary Twins" naturally inherits these conventional designs, and the script is 2,000 pages long, and its plot design will naturally not disappoint. But what I want to talk about here is its uniqueness in terms of plot narrative: the use of interpolation forms of storytelling.
Unlike conventional linear narratives, the game's narrative is interspersed with different points in time for the protagonist's childhood and adulthood, which feels a bit confusing at the initial experience. But after a period of patient experience, and combined with CG animation to restore the whole story on its own, you may understand the rationality of this design and appreciate the painstaking management of the game producers.
I believe that all players will exclaim "Sleeper, it turns out to be so after the experience!" "If you say that, this may have achieved the purpose of the game's interlude narrative design." If you're still a little confused after playing, you can experience the linear narrative provided by the two weeks, and maybe you will have a new understanding of the game's plot design.
The game adopts the common chapter narrative in interactive movies, that is, one story per chapter, and the specific plot design is not much to say here, so as not to spoil, I hope that all readers can experience this game. The game is probably controversial about the Chinese plot, but the game is more implied to be a black and beautiful country. Even when playing in this way, it is still uncomfortable, and it is recommended that readers make psychological expectations when playing the chapter.
Human design
Plot design is very important, but another important point of interactive movies is the design of people, which can also be said to be whether the character has its own unique characteristics and whether the acting skills are superb. It determines whether the player has the motivation to play and how much they can remember the plot after playing. Throughout the interactive movie games on the market, most of them are multi-protagonist models, and each protagonist has its own unique personality, the most successful and widely known is probably the three-protagonist design of "Detroit", and those who have played it probably can't forget it.
In The Amazing Twins, as the name suggests, twins are adopted in a dual-protagonist mode, and it can support both single-player and two-player play. I played it solo, but after playing, I felt that the experience of playing in pairs might be better.
Compared to the parallel-time linear narratives of other works (the game is described according to a linear time narrative and changes perspectives in turn), "The Extraordinary Twins" is more about "life", and the two protagonists are bound together from birth.
Players can follow the different moments of the heroine Judy's life: the experiments of the youngest child, going to a friend's house because of the calculation of the power, being abandoned by his parents, being locked in the house without a complete childhood, the training of the CIA, the work of the CIA, the human choice of the Journey to the Middle East, the escape of the rainy night, the experience of the life of the lowest people when homeless, redemption during the fire, the journey to find the truth, the short time in the desert, and so on.
Each episode Judy is at a different age, from a young and tender child, to a gorgeous girl, and finally to a mature and reliable woman. And in the process of growing up, we face the darkness of society, the goodness of human nature, the choice of love, the final choice, the helplessness of the truth, the secret joy of the rest of life, and so on.
The perception of the male protagonist Aiden has also been changing with age, the events experienced, and the truth has been revealed. At the end of the game, you will be faced with an important choice, and perhaps this is the consideration of your final experience of the world: do you want to continue to believe in the world, or do you hate the world and no longer believe in the world?
The game gives the player the right to choose everything, quite your life you decide that taste, very realistic.
Aiden has been with Judy since childhood and has witnessed Judy's life. And bury the truth in her heart and truly guard her. During this period, he was also disliked by Judy for many pranks and let him leave.
In the beginning, we just used Aiden as a tool to help us decrypt and escape. Even the disgust that arises from some of its pranks. But after going through everything, we understand the truth of all this.
Perhaps there is a saying that best describes Aiden: "You are no longer a tool, but a person as his name suggests." "I believe that players who can persist in playing until the last moment will understand the true meaning of the title of this game."
Gameplay
In terms of gameplay, the author strongly recommends that players who experience the experience play a two-player game, which can bring a stronger sense of immersion and experience. And can also more natively experience the whole process of one person's mentality change to another person.
Because of the superpower setting, the two-player play experience becomes more perfect, and some decryptions become more interesting, such as enchantment, control, backtracking, and destruction of the setting to further enhance the gameplay, quite "Codename. Tango" that taste.
But the game also has some drawbacks
The first is because of the old game and the transplantation, the graphics are not so good, but some details are really surprising (the portrayal of the home is very realistic);
The second is because its branch plot is not as complicated as other interactive movie games, and it is roughly possible to guess other endings, the one-week eye experience is enough, the two-week eye experience is not strong, it can be said that it is not necessary, but perhaps you can experience the linear narrative of the two weeks (the author did not try here);
The third is that the perspective of operation is as problematic as "Rainstorm", there is always a problem of turning the perspective without knowing the front and back, which reduces the experience of the game. It is recommended that players use PS to play or use PS5 controllers on PC to play, so that the effect of the experience has been improved, and some of the somatosensory operations are still very good.
Games come from life, higher than life
After playing this kind of game, I have to stop and think for a long time, thinking about the impact of some of the choices I made along the way: After seeing the good and evil of human nature, did I choose to remain good or fall into evil?
In the game, did you kill a child who was fighting together a second ago in order to perform a mission? Did you grab an ATM machine again to eat a full meal? Did you loot the supermarket again for the sake of delivering babies?
In life, we are not faced with various choices, just like Lu Yong, the prototype of "I am not a medicine god", violated the legal bottom line in order to save people, and like most of us to choose a life that they think has a future. There is no right or wrong in these choices, it is enough to follow your own heart.
The moment that touched me the most in the whole game was when the heroine was destitute, and the wanderer was dependent on each other in a broken house at that point in time, and the people at the bottom gave us the most touch, making us feel the existence of kindness and hope in the world. It also reminds us to believe in the people around us in real life, help the people around us more, and give people roses to leave incense.
epilogue
At the time of writing this article, I have finished playing the trilogy, and I have also played the invisible guardian, and I have to say that I like this game that can decide the direction of myself, so that I can have my own choices, as if at the crossroads of life, make different choices, to decide the future life. Interested readers can also experience this work more, which is generally a very good work.
I heard that Quantic Dream was acquired by NetEase, and I hope to continue to develop better works than the trilogy. What do you readers think about this matter, welcome to write your opinion in the message area~