While the West Virginia setting is beautiful, the human animations aren’t perfect, and the action is pretty slow. There are boring parts, where you’ll wonder why you’re searching for that final clue. And I liked how Higgs becomes a different person through his journey to solve the crime. I like how Dontnod pushes the emotional boundaries of games and gives us stories that help us cope with our own difficulties in the real world. But Higgs has to overcome his emotional turmoil and come to terms with himself before he can solve the crime.
If it were simply a murder mystery that he could unravel as dispassionately as Sherlock Holmes does in his tales, it would be quite short and uninteresting.
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The full game lasts about eight hours and is told with empathy for Higgs’ mental anguish. In that respect, the game is another example of how Dontnod is willing to wade into the politics of the real world to deliver an ethical message about our reality through a work of fiction. And when he finally solves the case, we learn how this story fits in with Dontnod’s statement about the opioid epidemic.
When the final confrontation takes place, we see how the mind palace can help Higgs anticipate what’s going to happen and stay one step ahead. Higgs ultimately succeeds in uncovering the secrets of Basswood, delivering catharsis to some and pain to others when he unveils what happened. His task is to gain perspective so he can view the facts and figure out what actually happened. But Higgs has to conquer his demons in the mind palace and put his mind to work. This scene is where the gameplay begins to shine and the stakes get more interesting. As the player, you have to find the facts and unravel what actually happened. He convinces Anna that something is wrong, and they revisit the scene of Nick’s death, where he supposedly lost control of a car on a winding forest road and crashed into a tree. It doesn’t help that many people in the town don’t like him and don’t want him asking questions. While part of his brain is logical, another part is emotional, and we witness his distress. He feels a lot of guilt about having left the town and written the story that brought down the mine. While this is happening, was learn more about Higgs’ personal troubles. Higgs begins to sense a cover-up and finds evidence that Nick was chasing a big story. Higgs starts asking questions around town, which leads him to the body of a journalist at the town newspaper’s office - the same place where he worked with Nick and Anna. The mind palace visualizes what happens in the fight until Nick is satisfied he has a theory that fits the facts. You can’t leave the scene until you find all of the right facts and can then use your mind palace to reconstruct what happened in the bar. He examines the evidence of a brawl, and it’s a lot of work for the player. Higgs returns to the bar in the morning and sneaks in. That’s where we learn that the mind palace can be a place of great emotional fear for Higgs, and his alter ego twin has to talk him into some kind of peace of mind. The next morning, Higgs wakes up from a nightmare and finds his shirt in his motel bathtub, drenched in blood. A police officer named Declan breaks up one of the fights, but Higgs gets into it again later on. Higgs winds up drinking too much, presumably with one of the former miners who still has a grudge against him. But Higgs finds that no one wants to consider the topic of murder at the wake, and Anna is among those who don’t want to talk about it. She asks Higgs to investigate, and he promises to do so. Joan tells Higgs she was hurt that he abandoned her and stayed away so long. As he arrives at the bar for Nick’s wake, he runs into Nick’s daughter, Joan “Bug” Waldron, who suspects Nick was murdered. Two years later, Higgs returns to the town filled with emotional dread to attend Nick’s funeral. This is where the story turns more supernatural.Īfter Higgs left town, Anna hooked up with his best friend Nick. It’s a place he goes to when he needs to figure things out, and we experience it as a 3D scene in the clouds. The mind palace is where Higgs works out his feelings and logical problems, a place that helps him notice connections other people miss. He has conversations with an alter ego, a kind of twin, who helps him make decisions. As Higgs replays his memories upon returning to the town, we see the scene play out in the visualized dreamland of his memories and subconscious. In a flashback within his “mind palace,” Higgs remembers how he had proposed to his girlfriend Anna, who turned him down, saying she had already told him marriage wasn’t something she wanted in life.
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