Twelve Minutes - Trailer

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Published on January 6, 2023 4:00:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3k9FsLL2Q

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Twelve Minutes (2021)

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Trailer Index
00:00 - Channel intro
00:11 - Reveal Trailer
02:27 - Release Date Trailer
03:00 - Cast Reveal Trailer
03:54 - Voice Over-Session Trailer
07:32 - Launch Trailer
08:57 - Accolade Trailer

Twelve Minutes is an adventure game developed by Luís António and published by Annapurna Interactive, released on August 19, 2021 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, with versions for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 released on December 7, 2021. A version for iOS and Android mobile devices was published by Netflix on 13 December 2022.

The game takes place almost exclusively in a small apartment suite and requires the player to repeatedly play through events of a 10-minute cycle to try to solve a mystery.

Gameplay
Twelve Minutes is played from a top-down perspective and is set in an apartment suite shared by a husband and wife (voiced by James McAvoy and Daisy Ridley, respectively) which includes the main living and kitchen area, their bedroom, a bathroom, and a closet. The player controls the husband during these events in the style of a point-and-click adventure game, where he is free to do various actions.
Without taking certain actions, over the course of 12 minutes, the husband learns his wife is pregnant. A self-identified police officer (voiced by Willem Dafoe) arrives at the apartment and accuses the wife of murdering her father several years ago, and in trying to arrest her knocks out the husband and kills the wife and her unborn child.

Time resets at the point where the husband enters the apartment, with the player now free to attempt to work out why the cop suspects the wife of murder, how to prevent her arrest, or several other possible actions in order to find a way to end the loop. If the husband dies or leaves the apartment, time is reset. However, the player is not given any exact information of what this goal is, leaving it up to them to explore how to resolve the situation.
The husband is the only character that retains knowledge of the previous cycles – such as knowing about the impending arrest – and this information can be used to perform other actions in future cycles. This gameplay loop has been compared to The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.[3] While the main loop lasts only 10 minutes in real time, the game is expected to take a player between 6 and 8 hours to complete.

Plot
Twelve Minutes is a decision-driven game involving time loops; however, the order of events will differ depending on how the game plays.

Development
Luís António is a former artist from Rockstar Games and Ubisoft who left these companies to pursue independent game development. He spent time in 2012 working to help develop The Witness before setting out to make his own. For his first game, he wanted a title that would explore the consequences of decision-making and how these choices affected others. António also considered that most video games are built on loops, with the player-character dying and the player using knowledge from the previous deaths to proceed farther in the game, a concept built into the time looping nature of Twelve Minutes.

Voice acting for the game was provided by James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe as the husband, wife, and the officer, respectively. Annapurna Interactive helped with casting as well as finding safe locations for them to record lines which came just as the general world lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic had started.

António stated an anticipated release by the end of 2020 for Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, with ports to other systems later.[5] In November 2020, Annapurna Interactive confirmed that the game was delayed to 2021, and was released on August 19, 2021. Versions for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 were announced on November 23, 2021. They were released on December 7, 2021. A version for iOS and Android mobile devices was published by Netflix on 13 December 2022.

The game was showcased at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, where it competed for the inaugural Tribeca Games Award.

Reception
Twelve Minutes received "generally favorable" reviews for Microsoft Windows but received "mixed or average" reviews for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Hideo Kojima praised Twelve Minutes, stating he hadn't "been into a game this much since Inside", and had inspired him to consider making another adventure game.

Twelve Minutes has been considered a fresh take into the ‘point-and-click’ genre using a very small space for exploration with the ability to tell a story in a unique way. IGN's Ryan McCaffrey compared it to a "fresh twist on the genre" and flipping the traditional point-and-click adventure on its head while GameSpot's Andrew King saw it as "mechanically rich while encouraging creative thinking".