Pendulo designed A Twist of Fate to avoid the pitfalls of Runaway 2, a game with which the team had been unhappy. Several versions of the game were scrapped before the team settled on the final story and structure. Just like the second entry in the series, the English, the French and German versions of the game were the first available for purchase, all three of them published on November 26, 2009. The original Spanish version was subsequently published in its homeland, Spain, on March 25, 2010, featuring an exclusive special collector's edition to mollify fans annoyed by the delay, as with Runaway 2.[1]
En route to someone who can help them find Brian, the two stop at a roadside diner, where Gabbo tells Gina of Brian's difficult life in the asylum and how a patient from the place named Kurgan made him suffer. The chapter begins as a flashback in the middle part of his story: Brian, having overheard his therapist inform the judge of his intent to declare Brian sane and criminally responsible for Kordsmeier's murder, decides to break out of the asylum. Gabbo, a longtime resident of the asylum, provides Brian with an escape plan, but Kurgan overhears everything and hijacks the plan. Brian does not give up, and with the help of the other patients, succeeds in resolving a part of the plan, despite the interference of the detestable Dr. Palmer. Brian eventually manages to reach the central air vent of the asylum, only to find Kurgan's decapitated body on the floor of the vent shaft.
Brian returns to New York and tries to infiltrate Dr. Bennett's apartment to find Bennett's recordings of his hypnotherapy sessions, but is hit in the face by a hobo while climbing a ladder and is knocked unconscious in the subsequent fall. Gina subsequently arrives at the apartment with the judge and shows her the hypnotherapy recordings, in which Brian relates the events that took place on Mala Island. It is revealed that Brian was able to infiltrate Kordsmeier's encampment and free the alien prisoners, who incapacitated both Kordsmeier and Tarantula before departing. The aliens returned a healed Gina and gave Brian a gift of the mysterious mineral Trantonite. Brian took remote control of Kordsmeier's body using alien technology and used his authority to replace the Trantonite with a decoy, but Tarantula was able to escape and, using the remote control device, controlled Brian's body to murder Kordsmeier. Brian experienced a psychotic break while Tarantula escaped with the decoy Trantonite and the now-broken control device. The recording ends with Dr. Bennett relating his interpretation of Brian's story as actual events that have been delusionally distorted by trauma and hypothermia; he theorizes that Kordsmeier had been corrupt and trying to steal meteoric minerals, and that Tarantula murdered him while framing a weakened Brian to cover up her own involvement.
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The point is, though, that they are Victorians, living in the last century among fears and mores we no longer possess. When you take a Victorian story and plop it down in the 20th century, as "A Simple Twist of Fate" does, you get a strange interruption of the rhythm - as if the characters are dancing to unheard music. They do things that are inexplicable unless you realize they're living according to the codes and cliches of the last century.
Try as I might, I just couldn't accept this Victorian story in modern dress. The motivations seemed wrong (would 20th century people behave this way?), the plotting seemed contrived (as indeed it was), and the plot's habit of springing big surprises on us was too manipulative. This is not at all a bad movie, mind you, but a good movie gone wrong, through a simple twist of miscalculation.
This book had great potential. The synopsis was good, however the first part was a lot about Sydney and her pot smoking friends which I did not find to fit into the main story line at all. About mid way through the book the narration changes to the adults and it started to get interesting and that lasted through the end of the book which then felt hurried and not satisfactory.
Ok, to explain what I just wrote, Twisted Fate is told from multiple narratives. Both Ally and Sydney narrate, as well as Graham, and his parents. There is a lot going on in the book and I think that might just by the problem. The book lays out in too many directions and nothing felt finished to me. Where it starts out with Sydney and the pot smoking (which nothing ever comes of this although she is supposedly wicked smart and going to be class valedictorian) and suddenly shoots to Graham and the story changes to something else. It felt choppy.
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In fiction, not every main character has an astounding backstory that will make you want to bawl your eyes out for someone who doesn't actually exist. Sometimes, the best main character is a character the audience can relate to. But at the same time, the audience likes the idea of being mixed up in such fantastic adventures. Sometimes they like the idea that anytime, anywhere, anyone can find themselves in an epic journey to Save the World.
Now, that isn't to say that this character won't turn out to actually be central to this story's events, or won't go through tragic and/or spectacular events as the story goes on, or even that this inadvertent adventure won't wind up revealing important things about their past and destiny. In fact, doing so is a common method of avoiding having the story being told through the eyes of The Ishmael. The character can be anyone, anywhere. The key is that this character's random, everyday, completely not worthwhile decision is what pulls them into the events of the story.
Sub trope of Stumbled Into the Plot. If the story also shows the outcome of the decision going the other way, it's a Split Timelines Plot. If the twist of fate is what distinguishes the ensuing course of history from our own, it's a Point of Divergence.
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