Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 (personal estimate)
- Offline trophies: 25 (8
, 9
, 7
, 1
)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 12-15 hours (personal estimate)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1.5, plus a few ending cleanups
- Number of missable trophies: Technically 0 (chapter select), but gathering memories via chapter select will reset any memories already collected from later chapters, which would necessitate a longer replay, so consider Cherish your memories as missable
- Glitched trophies: 0 (as of 1.01)
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: N/A
- Do trophies stack?: N/A
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: N/A
- Additional peripherals required?: No
Introduction:
Twin Mirror is a 2020 mystery adventure game developed by Dontnod (Life is Strange, Remember Me). You play as Sam Higgs, a journalist returning to his hometown of Basswood for his best friend's funeral. Soon, however, Sam finds himself drawn into a murder mystery and possible conspiracy, and must solve it to save not only his life but possibly the lives of those around him.
Twin Mirror has a sort of Life is Strange by way of Twin Peaks thing going on - the story is as much about the lives and relationships of the people in town as it is about the murder mystery. It's worth a playthrough, but it's not anything revelatory.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Play through the game, choosing only analytical (blue) choices, collecting all memories and mementos along the way
Your dialogue choices don't matter, except for the analytical/social choices, so play however you want. The one thing you do want to pay attention to is what you choose during the final Mind Palace scene at Lookout Point (there are three total), as your actions during it factor into what ending you'll get. If you want to take the guesswork out of it, see No stone unturned.
By the end of this step, you will have earned:
A blast from the past
Way back home
Raise a glass
Things could be worse
Knowledge is power
Nice catch
Trial by fire
Truth is everything
Straight shooter
And if you got all memories and mementos:
Lost and found
Cherish your memories
Full house
Step 2: Clean up the other Mind Palace ending
On the main menu, reload the Nightfall chapter and finish the game again, making choices to get the other ending. See No stone unturned for more information about unlocking the endings.
By the end of this step, you will have earned:
Onwards and upwards
Presence of mind
Step 3: Reload Chapter Enter Basswood (Downtown Basswood) and finish the game again, choosing only social (yellow) choices
This will go faster, since you already know what you need to do. Again, your dialogue choices don't matter (until the confrontation at the end, at Lookout Point; see No stone unturned if you want to take the guesswork out of it). Just make sure that every major choice is yellow (social).
By the end of this step, you will have earned:
You'll never be alone
Manners make the man
Step 4: Clean up the other Him ending
On the main menu, reload the Nightfall chapter and finish the game again, making choices to get the other ending. See No stone unturned for more information about unlocking the endings.
By the end of this step, you will have earned:
Master negotiator
No place like home
No stone unturned
Step 5: Miscellaneous cleanup (optional)
You may already have the platinum by now if you kept an eye on the list while playing. If you are missing any trophies, now is the time to load up chapter select and unlock them, including all the one-shot miscellaneous trophies.
By the end of this step, you will have earned:
A foot in the door
Waka waka
Super sleuth
Smooth talker
Code breaker
And finally.... The well-examined life! Congratulations!
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