The Twins

Sad stories may make us feel bad, but they can be just as enjoyable as happy ones if you are willing to put up with the emotional distress. In fact, you can learn a lot more from unfortunate tales, because life is pretty rough on us all at one point or another, and it’s better if you are ready to accept that fact when you are faced with it.

The last adventure of two dying twins

The Twins is a third-person platformer in which you have to explore a colorful world and avoid the disease that is slowly killing the two twins you are playing as. Naturally, the whole thing is pretty sad, especially since The Twins in question are just children, but you can still enjoy yourself if you are able to look at things from a different perspective.
In essence, you are helping the two brothers have one last adventure before they succumb to the illness, which is why this one must be the most exciting adventure of them all. Gameplay-wise, this means that you have to navigate from checkpoint to checkpoint and make sure to avoid the traps in between. It’s not a very unique formula, but at least there are some interesting mechanics to toy with.

Glide from platform to platform

One of the most useful abilities The Twins have is gliding from platform to platform on a pair of fairy wings, which allows you to cover great distances you couldn’t jump the normal way. On the other hand, it can be a little tricky to do it at first, mainly because the controls are pretty terrible most of the time. There are also a few bugs and bad design choices you have to watch out for.
As for the graphics, the designers actually did a very good job when it comes to the environments and the world you get to explore. Besides the colorful trees and the green fields, you also get to stumble onto bloody scenes that slow you down, which symbolize the disease that slowly kills the children. In addition, the soundtrack is very nice and it goes nicely with the general mood of the game.

A neat platformer that may squeeze a tear or two out of you

In the end, The Twins can be a bit dark and unpleasant sometimes, but that doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy it. On top of it all, the controls are not always accurate, which means that frustration is almost always part of the experience, unfortunately.