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Tell Me Why Free Download GAMESPACK.NET There are no facts. First-hand accounts have an inherent subjectivity to them, people lie, and memories fade. All of this is what’s meant to make Tell Me Why so intriguing. But while the characters and world are brimming with charm, pulling the thread to reveal the secrets of this fictional Alaskan town’s not so mysterious murder proves to be the least compelling part of the whole adventure. In Tell Me Why you switch between the perspectives of twins Alyson and Tyler Ronan after they’re reunited 10 years after their mother’s death. Over the course of 8.5 hours (spanning across three episodes), the two prepare to sell their childhood home, which proves to be both a physically and emotionally exhausting task. Despite being completely separate from the Life Is Strange universe, Tell Me Why soon veers into the supernatural in a similar way, primarily through Alyson and Tyler’s ability to talk telepathically and rewatch ghostly replays of key childhood memories together. Made up of golden light particles, the translucent look of these replays give them a mystical and transient feeling. Through these visions, you get to see more of the twins’ past and sometimes “remember” details from key events so you can confront folks in town and get the answers you’re looking for.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Similarly, chatting telepathically allows the two to strategize their next move, opening up more dialogue options or guiding the other through a task. One of the best ideas is that sometimes Alyson and Tyler have different memories of the same event, forcing you to choose which memory to believe. This pulled me into the drama of these characters. I always went with whichever scenario felt more realistic, based on what I knew of the characters involved. Given who’s involved, would this fight end in tears or curses? Given Alyson or Tyler’s relationships with the people in their memories, who is more likely to be unfairly harsh or too forgiving? I found myself almost equally split between choosing Alyson and Tyler’s memories, which is a testament to how fleshed out these characters are. Like real people, I learned to read between the lines, detect their biases, and ultimately make my decision of whose memory to trust. That said, it doesn’t really matter which perspective you go with. While some characters may protest when confronted with your memory-based evidence, there’s no way to really know “the truth.” This ties in thematically with the idea of truth not being an indisputable sequence of events, but the lack of pressure I felt as a player made my internal debate a bit dull and low-stakes.

Tell Me Why – Chapter 2.

The selection process quickly turned into a mundane task I had to do rather than a compelling way to twist the twins’ fates. Spoiler alert for the first moments of the story: Upon starting Tell Me Why, you immediately see a flashback that reveals how one twin killed their mom in self-defense. That the killing took place is never in doubt, but the driving conflict of Tell Me Why quickly becomes figuring out what drove a mother to threaten to murder one of her own children. It feels almost impossible to process and move past something you cannot explain. I imagine that’s what the twins are experiencing as they continuously confront the violence that led to their mother’s demise. Their desperate need to give their twisted tale some sense is understandable, but the search feels unfulling because nothing can unring that bell and there’s no answer that could provide comfort in such a dark scenario. I also felt that Dontnod fumbled a bit in the depiction of their mom, Mary-Ann. There was a nuance between the light and darkness in her character I felt Dontnod was reaching for, but didn’t quite come across in its execution, which focused on her most extreme behavior.Earth Defense Force 5

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Taken as a whole experience, Tell Me Why offers a much-needed reshaping of the choose your own story games, moving away from cliffhangers and dramatic, distinct choices towards a more gentle and meaningful experience. The game features bouts of magic realism, but is most magic in its human moments. All the major choices shape your character’s experience more than their actions, and while the first, introductory chapter occasionally feels shallow, later chapters are overflowing with depth. Tyler Ronan, the first trans character leading a game for a major studio, is also the first truly well written trans character in gaming, and comes with no strings attached. He’s wonderful, so clearly shaped by his transness yet made of so much more than it. Alyson plays her part too, especially in Chapter Three, although Tyler steals the shows and gets all the best scenes, including two moving conversations in Chapters Two and Three which push queer representation in major video games into new territory. The ending reveals feel raw and deserved, the puzzles are inventive and whimsical, and the miniseries style presentation highlights the hidden power of GamePass.

Forgetting the Nuance.

Because of the nature of the genre, of Tell Me Why’s subtlety, there’s a risk that at the end of the year it will not be deemed good enough to sit at the top table with the bigger AAA offerings. But the game is a masterpiece, if not of technique, then of soul, story and heart. It fixes some of the biggest issues in its genre, even as I berated it in my first two reviews for not succumbing to them.There is still not a serious blockbuster choice offered, but even if these are often the crowning moments of other point and click games, aren’t they often their biggest weakness? Other games of this ilk try to pare their stories down to a ‘choose A or B’, and often slice far too much nuance off in the meantime. Tell Me Why does end on a distinct choice, but the impact of this is felt on a character level, rather than a melodramatic story level. All the way through Tell Me Why, I’ve wanted there to be a huge, instantly impactful choice. Now that I’ve reached the end, I love that they didn’t give it to me. Very few choices in Tell Me Why affect the story, they all affect the characters. Most games these days are missiles. Every inch of their engineering has been agonised over tirelessly, they’ve been meticulously designed in labs and in focus groups to hit their targets, and they explode with a deafening sound on impact.My Child Lebensborn

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Tell Me Why is a songbird. It’s not as impressive, as fast, it doesn’t cause carnage and doesn’t demand attention. But it’s beautiful. Chapter Three specifically belongs to Alyson, just as Chapter One was Tyler’s and Chapter Two was for Delos Crossing. She’s definitely been the supporting star so far, but benefits here from being given room to breathe and really comes into her own. Speaking of room to breathe, Chapter Three only has one weakness: there’s an anxiety coping minigame on Alyson’s phone which I didn’t understand, and instead of calming me down it made me want to throw her phone into the sea. Every conversation Alyson has is deeply affecting, and the twins’ voice and memory vision, until this point just an intriguing mechanic, becomes both narratively and thematically interesting through her eyes. Tyler only really gets one scene, a lake fishing scene with Michael, but Tyler being Tyler, it steals the show. You get a much gentler role in shaping Tyler’s sexuality and romantic interests than you typically do in other choice-based games, and that’s shown most effectively here. I could spend the whole review and then some talking about this scene; it’s relentlessly queer, unashamedly masculine, and both artistic and awkward all at once. It takes the same big steps Brokeback Mountain did, throws in the complexity of life as a trans man, and presents it to us with a glorious sunset. I get that other people may not love this game like I do.

Gameplay.

There’s no jaw-dropping, outrageously fun parts to Tell Me Why. But I know I’ll always be able to point to that scene and say “That. That’s why I love this game.” The game’s two final big reveals are both perfect, and focus less on trying to shock players than they do capturing the moment for Tyler and Alyson. Games like this often have puzzles or riddles thrown in there to make them feel more like a game; with the fuse box in Chapter Two, Tell Me Why falls victim to this itself. But the final set of puzzles, all folding into each other, are genius. From a basic point and click perspective, they’re colourful, fun, and inventive, but I guess they’re nothing too special. But it’s the way they fold into each other, revealing more about the game’s central mystery not just through the truths they uncover or the connections they make, but in the very way they are presented, which makes them magical. I will be talking about Tell Me Why for a long time, although I’m not sure the world will. I don’t know if it will reach inside everyone’s ribcage and grip them by the heart the way it did me, or whether it will mostly be enjoyed as a pretty good game with a pretty good story. But I know for sure we’ll be talking about Tyler Ronan for a very long time. He’s deeply compelling, surprisingly complex.

And he’s the first truly well written trans character in gaming who doesn’t need to have caveats attached. Tell Me Why is best considered a miniseries, which is why, despite the reviews for Chapters One and Two being strictly about those chapters, this one takes a look at the game as a whole. I said in my first review it was the first game to understand the potential of Game Pass, and if these are the types of moving, more subtle stories we have to look forward to on the platform, I’d say that contrary to popular opinion, the future for Xbox looks very bright indeed. It’s maybe fitting that a game about twins feels split in two. On the one hand, a dark thriller with supernatural horror. On the other, a warm, coming of age drama about identity and family. Both these games have potential but slammed together into one, like two colliding trains, leaves players to pick through the wreckage. There are good things to salvage but it nonetheless feels fractured and broken. What’s worth salvaging are some scattered bits and pieces, and a sizeable, engaging second chapter. Twins Tyler and Alyson are reunited for the first time in ten years since the death of their mother, who we’re told Tyler killed in self defence. Now they’re revisiting the family home and all manner of painful memories are coming to the forefront.

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Up front it’s also a story about Tyler’s identity as a trans man, his struggles with that identity in his past as well as dealing with prejudices in his present. If Tell Me Why was just that, it might well have been among my favourite games this year. Its depiction of rural Alaska is gorgeous and supremely detailed, Dontnod really have an eye for lived in spaces as well as those big vistas. There’s a powerful sense of place. It’s just a shame that it feels largely irrelevant to the story being told. I wanted to live in the small town drama, explore Tyler’s navigation of a more conservative part of the world and the siblings trying to rekindle their relationship after so long apart. At times it lives up to the promise. Especially in the middle, there are long segments of low stakes drama—like the twins cleaning up their old house or reconciling their grievances with a father figure—that engrossed me. The game is let down here as it is elsewhere by some really simple mechanics, splitting itself between dialogue choices and contextual prompts to use items, and a plethora of dreadfully boring puzzles. There’s literally a sequence where you have to count the items in a stockroom. I’m serious—just looking at some tins and counting them. Yet surprisingly the game’s narrative is at its most deft in these sequences, able to pull us into the warmth of the twin’s relationship or deliver tender moments as they work through the unaddressed pain of their past. Land Of War The Beginning

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