History VideoGame / TwelveMinutes

* StarcrossedLover: [[spoiler: The couple turns out to be brother and sister all along. The husband's attempt to avert this trope and stay with his sister anyway is what drives much of the main plot. The loop can only be broken once he realizes that things between them won't ever be.]]

* StarcrossedLover: [[spoiler: The couple turns out to be brother and sister all along. The husband's attempt to avert this trope and stay with his sister anyway is what drives much of the main plot. The loop can only be broken once he realizes that things between them can never be.]]

* StarcrossedLover: [[spoiler: The couple turns out to be brother and sister all along. The husband's attempt to avert this trope and stay with his sister anyway is what drives much of the main plot.]]

* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler:In the "Alone" ending, the husband decides to break up with his current girlfriend/future wife to prevent incest and the tragedies that will come from staying together.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: While the "Mindfulness" ending implies that the entire game is inside the husband's mind, we don't know anything about the state of his life in the real world. How much of his illusion is based on reality and how much is just pure fabrication? Is the couple already together or is he just learning about the truth before they start dating? Is "father" a random therapist or is he really his father?]]

** The "Listen" ending may be the closest the game has to this. [[spoiler: The wife takes the husband out to talk about her past, thus preventing the cop from finding them and the husband from having to painfully find the truth. The loop does not start in this ending.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: PlayedStraight in the "Alone" ending. [[spoiler: The husband agrees to never be with his sister, thus preventing her from ever suffering the tragedy of their relationship.]] {{Subverted}} in the "Confessed" ending, [[spoiler: as the husband only confesses the same truth after getting her pregnant and living together for 8 years. She is understandably not any happier after this.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: PlayedStraight in the "Alone" ending. [[spoiler: The husband agrees to never be with his sister, thus preventing her from ever suffering the tragedy of their relationship.]] Subverted in the "Confessed" ending, [[spoiler: as the husband only confesses the same truth after getting his sister pregnant and living together for 8 years. She is understandably not any happier in this ending.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: PlayedStraight in the "Alone" ending. [[spoiler: the husband agrees to never be with his sister, thus preventing her from ever suffering the tragedy of their relationship.]] Downplayed in the "Confessed" ending, [[spoiler: as the husband only confesses the truth after getting his sister pregnant and living together for 8 years.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: While the "Mindfulness" ending implies that the entire game is inside the husband's mind, we don't know anything about the state of his life in the real world. How much of his illusion is based on reality and how much is just pure fabrication? Is the couple already together or is he just learning about the truth they start dating? Is "father" a random therapist or is he really his father?]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: While the "Mindfulness" ending implies that the entire game is inside the husband's mind, we don't know anything about the state of his life in the real world. How much of his illusion is based on reality and how much is just pure fabrication? Is the couple already together or is he just learning about the truth? Is "father" a random therapist or is he really his father?]]

** [[spoiler: There is no ending where the husband is happy. He either breaks things off with the woman he loves and ends up alone, futilely erases his memory (which just leads to him falling in love with her again), stays in the loop and lives out the same 10 minutes over and over again, or snaps out of the [[AllJustADream dream/hypnosis]] and faces the real world.]]

* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: No matter how many times the main character has his memory wiped in the past, he will always find the wife and fall in love with her again, thus resetting the time loop. The only way to end the loop is for him to accept that things between them will never work out, or if one follows the interpretation that AllIsADream, wakes up.]]

** [[spoiler: In the "Groundhog" ending, the man chooses to stay inside the loop and plays out the same happy evening with his wife over and over again. However, they have no future and the man always break down once the loop restarts.]]

* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: No matter how many times the main character has his memory wiped in the past, he will always find the wife and fall in love with her again, thus resetting the time loop. The only way to end the loop is for him to accept that things between them will never work out.]]

** [[spoiler: In the "Mindfulness" ending, it's implied that the whole game is a hypnosis session or a dream where a man imagines different scenarios of how being with his sister would turn out. This means that none of the tragedy of the game actually occurs, although the man still has to struggle with his feeling for his sister and the game ends before we actually know whether he gives her up in the real world or not.]]

** [[spoiler: In the "Groundhog" ending, the man chooses to stay inside the loop and plays out the same happy evening with his wife over and over again.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the "Alone" ending, the husband agrees with his wife's father to break up with her, thus avoiding the tragedies that would've followed if he stayed with her. In the epilogue, the now-single husband finds himself in his apartment again, now completely devoid of furniture and alone.]]

* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: No matter how many times the husband has his memory wiped in the past, he will still find the wife and fall in love with her all over again, thus resetting the time loop.]]

** Hiding in the closet before your wife leaves the bathroom is necessary to [[spoiler:learn the location of the watch when the cop arrives]]. To prevent you from waiting out the entire loop, after a few seconds, the protagonist mutters, "And now we wait..." and the game skips ahead to the cop's arrival. A similar time skip occurs if you convince your wife of the loop, tell her about the cop, and select the dialogue option to wait for his arrival. You can also choose to fall asleep on the bed to skip time.

** Listen: [[spoiler:On a new save file, if the husband doesn't do anything upon entering the apartment, he and his wife will talk before she grabs the pocket watch and leaves the apartment with the husband, preventing the time loop altogether.]]