Finished "A Twisted Tale" in 7 hours!

Not sure what this book is all about...

Wow, what a ride this was! What a feeling of accomplishment every time I made some headway! There are some nifty puzzles in this game, lots of funny stuff. I was really stumped a couple of times, but never too long to get frustrated.

What a cozy little home!

One piece of frustration was completely intentional in the game, which makes it absolutely hilarious: I lost count of the different versions of the carnivorous plant I offered the antique shop owner. This is a great puzzle you can only solve through perseverance.

The bird looks more surprised by the happy couple than about being caught!

I had to do some crazy things as well, several of those centering around the old lady, Gloria "The Beldame" Black. I kinda wish we could've seen more of her.

Got my name in the credits; several times!

I'm really curious to find out what happens next! It kind of reminds me of that old TV show "Sliders", where our heroes continued to travel between alternative realities. I'm sure Vio will find herself in an even more stranger world in chapter two. I have development goes smoothly and we get to play it soon!

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I'm 3 hours into "A Twisted Tale" and this world is even crazier than I thought!

I could eat here...

While there aren't THAT many locations to visit in this chapter (nine screen in all I believe, some of them scroll sideways...) I already must've walked for miles in this game! It's almost like, people don't stay where they are, and other conditions and environments change over time as well, as you progress through the story and puzzles. So I'm constantly exploring, looking for new things, talking to people again and again.

Gnarly grandma!

My favorite must be the restaurant owner, he's so overly melodramatic, worried like a mother hen about his pet cockroach Roachy who is supposed to power the jukebox but it has broken down and Roachy has disappeared. His customer Gloria "The Beldame" Black is still looking to rinse her teeth after her turkey dinner. Then there's Ned the tattoo artist who's actually terrified of needles, a practicing opera singer who keeps throwing (usefull!) stuff at me as I interrupt him. Then there's couple made in heaven Betty and Hermann, whose stuff I want to nick but they won't move until Hermann catches his chicken.

Love the artwork in this game. The free-style tattoos, not so much...

All things I think I need to acccomplish first before I get a chance to win back my cube. Which is being held hostage by the antique shop owner, who at least has said he's willing to part with it in exchange for this rare man-eating plant.

Lots of adventure game fan service here!

I've got lots of inventory items but I'm still not sure how I can use them. I've got scissors but they are blunt, pliers but they are rusty, then I found some exotic stuff but turned out I just had to drop them in a goldfish bowl for ornamentation (I guess there's a hidden achievement here somewhere...)

I think I need to go talk to all NPC's again, see if I can't discover any extra clues...

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New game: "A Twisted Tale" playthrough

New game!

I've started chapter one of A Twisted Tale and I'm one hour into it!

Gorgeous place! I wonder how expensive their lattes are, though...

My name's Vio. One day I'm minding my own business, cleaning up the café where I work, when suddenly I find this small Rubic cube left on one of the tables. As soon as I pick it up for a closer inspection, a vortex appears and it sucks me right in, only to spit me back out in some forest with strange looking plants and trees. The cube follows me through the portal and falls to the ground, glowing hot!

The MacGuffin of choice!

While I wait for it to cool down, I walk to the edge of the forest only to find a floating town in the clouds! I explore the town and meet a fisherman trying to catch birds, his wife Betty waiting for him as she constantly paints over her nails, a very enthusiastic turkey loving chef in a restaurant and his old lady customer needing to clean her teeth, a couple of road workers trying to keep the crumbling town together, a tattoo artist, and a very pedantic antique shop owner who just happens to have stolen my magic cube as soon as I'd turned my back!

I don't like the looks of that tentacle...

So far I love this game's style: one-click user interface to either talk, examine or pick up items. An inventory you click open with the other mouse button. A hand-drawn classic-style adventure game that will remind you of The Curse of Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Darkestville Castle, with great voice acting and cool music every step of the way.

No WAY I'd walk there in real life!!!

The first hour of this game flew by with exploration and conversation. I was able to pick up a couple of items, but I'm not really sure where I'll have to use them. I hope things will become very clear soon!

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