Twelve Minutes (Zero Punctuation)

I just read the plot on he wiki, it really is a wtf moment reading it fully, it seems like they had a full plot tailored and then they wrote themselves into a corner and ran out of money all at the same time, because I dont wanna actually believe someone thought out this whole story, thought it was a good idea AND THEN SOME COMPANY GREEN LIGHTS IT THINKING ITS A GOOD IDEA, cuz that's absurd

Ironic that yahtzee's attempt to extinguish enthusiasm for a game that might have been interesting is actually what made me want to play it

Yeah I had that same feeling of not knowing if I had actually finished. Pretty sure there is an ending after the point you hit, but it's not any more satisfying.

Weirdly enough the game makers seem to think that there are numerous alternate endings. When I looked up what they were, most of these 'endings' would be like calling every significant loop in groundhog Day an alternate ending to the movie.

"I don't know if I'd call 12 Minutes good or bad."

4 months later...

5th Worst Game of the Year

12 minutes in six minutes

As a guy who have read that "Hentai Tag" 12 minutes seems unsatisfactory, there is a better way of "Washing your hand clean" but definitely not done this way

I really couldn't tell that the woman was the same actress as Rey. Really could have gotten any voice actors.

Wouldn't really say they're on the same level. I mean, if anything the altered one Yahtzee used is even worse. At least the fucked up-ness of the real twist is from a place of no information and the consequences of another person's actions. The dog molestation thing would be intentional and WAY more fucked up. One is an episode of Jeremy Kyle, the other is a jail sentence.

Through this video, I was given the motivation to learn what the sword of Damocles is, how informative!

This is a weird review that's much more enjoyable if you've played the game already.

best way i could describe this game is student film version of groundhog day with an incest kink.

i'll admit the twist is something i didn't see coming and while the innitial reaction of the character freaking out it's like...
so you just fucking forgot that fact? how could you forget who your fucking partner is?

Your character knows he's a monster for porking puppies and doesn't want the happy ending. That's what I got out of it.

I personally like the fact the situation was a giant what if to try and explain to the son the problems his relationship with his sister would bring and how the final decision questions if he really thinks looking back at everything he went through in the loop would it be worth trying to keep taboo flame between them alive. We have so many chances/loops in the game itself to choose different things, things we think are right and some we know aren't right but just go for it because we have as much time in the world as we please but in the end it really boils down to making that one big forever choice, you can't take back some things without causing real pain and thats just how it is.

OH MY GOD I LITERALLY ONLY JUST...
Dunno if this is too spoilery but I watched the Best Worst and Blandest episode long before I saw the actual episode for 12 minutes.... (slight spoilers below)






And NOW I get what yahtzee meant about saying about some games being bad because of "Incest pregnancy scandals" when leading up to his worst pick for werewolf.

Sounds an awful lot like Facade, albeit it with more ridiculous plot points and less melons.

Jokes on Yahtzee, Nick probably uses the Sponsorblock extension to skip the entire intro.

"TMCKSKN"
Still working on that gag, Yahtzee.

that's how you last?

in fairness to daisy ridley she was also in that one episode of toast of london

I also just looked this plot twist up and... well. The writer definitely read Oedipus and must have thought that big reveal is what made it so famous back in the day. Not that it was foreshadowed and hinted at multiple times, but rather that moment when it's confirmed.

They were wrong. Completely wrong.

Having played this, I see why Yahtzee hated the ending where the game goes "eh, never mind. Just forget we brought it up."

But there are other canonical endings where the dude never molests the dog in the first place, or where he suffers a just punishment for having done so, so I don't know if I'd agree that it's a pointless story.

My biggest letdown in gaming recent. Personally hated everything about this game

I only came to know of this game because of a racy video titled "12 Minutes is a Pretentious Misogynistic Spousal Abuse Simulator" and uhhhh, that's certainly eye-catching. More intriguing than the game proper.

Having come back to this episode after recently being introduced to a game called "House" with a similar presence where every time you die or something you're kicked back to the start of the loop and have to figure out how to get out of it, and yet, that game seems better put together. The story at least doesn't have the stupid twist like this game

Playing this fucking boring ass game was worth it just so i could laugh at the dog molester joke imma be honest.

I'm still mad at this game nearly a year later it built itself up really well and the ending was so bad

Why you would ever want to be connected to the atrocity that was the new Star Wars films is beyond me. A sure fire way to kill your game

Honestly the dog fucking metaphor is surprisingly close to the actual twist

I dont think the dog molester comparison works quite well enough because hes not married to a dog. Kinda beats ther purpose if they're seen as seperate

I also wondered why bother hiring two well known british voice actors only to have them do generic american accents

Spoiler allusion warning: Apparently, the truest ending of 12 Minutes will/would leave Yahtzee with the same feelings as Little Hope.

Uno reversi "I'm thinking of ending things"

With the star studded cast this game leaves the distinct impression that everybody involved would just rather have made a movie but ended up making a videogame somehow.

The plot to me at the end was you going back in time to make sure you stopped seeing her. Then you end in a lone apartment. It's sad, I guess it's pro dog molesting

I looked up the plot and it sounds like they basically stole the main twist from a 1996 mystery movie called Lone Star.

Everyone just go watch that instead, I remember it being pretty good.

If you put this on 0.5 speed, the title is almost accurate

I looked it up, and the plot twist is even more idiotic than the MC being a dog diddler

Bro how lkg dose this game take ro finish on a serious not , everyone taking the mivk by saying 11 minutes...

Just a hint
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I could've sworn I went and looked up the twist just to judge Yahtzee's "equivalent" replacement... but now it's gone from my head. Something about killing the invader's wife? That the home invader coming to kill you was actually some sort of justice? And that you're actually in hell and these 12 minutes are your eternal punishment? That's can't be right, it's starting to sound far too interesting...

what? he isn't even a dog molester literally a nothing burger for normies who think oldbaoy crap is a good movie because they are from alabama

They were Lannisters the whole time

Plot twist: I did watch this video twice.

Probably would have been better without half the plot twist being incest

I can never get this game to run on my Series X, the minute I start it the game crashes.

"thanks to our fans continuing support the escapist is on track for our best year yet" oof