Even without that stupid twist it's still a very mediocre game. Twelve Minutes is a bad adventure game with a bad story and bad characters. Most of the playtime is a boring slog and when it does finally get interesting it just becomes outright bad. Which I suppose is better than boring but not by much.

I have to give it up props for being somewhat original. The top down grounded adventure game style is definitely something cool that I wouldn't mind seeing attempted again.