Posted on: May 28, 2025
letefte
Verified ownerGames: 655 Reviews: 4
Time travel adventure worth your time.
Dave Gilbert has made some of my favorite adventure games and his newest work does not disappoint. If you’re familiar with his games (The Blackwell series, Unavowed etc.) then you know what to expect: witty humor, clever but relatively easy puzzles, heavy emphasis on dialogue and New York. And plot twists. Lots and lots of plot twists. The setting is interesting and the story, although it starts slow, kept me captivated from start to finish. Gameplay wise, this is an AGS game, so you know what to expect. The highlights are the rewind system and the in-game archive, welcome additions to an otherwise straightforward point-and-click adventure. There is also a built-in hint system that I suspect veterans of the genre will rarely use. The visuals are not in the usual pixel art style and that might throw some people off but nevertheless fit the tone of the game. The soundtrack by Thomas Regin is good but not as memorable as his previous collaborations with Gilbert. To summarize, this is one of the best adventure games to come out in the 2020s and if you like the genre do yourself a favor and play it. And that would have been the end, if I didn’t have some more personal thoughts. First, I don’t think the good Mr. Gilbert realizes what a dystopian nightmare he created with this setting. We are talking about a world where most peoples personal history changes every five seconds with an unseen corporate/governmental board, referred in game as “The brass,” deciding on what historical events are important or no. I really wished the game leaned more into that aspect of the world but it tells a far more personal story instead. Said personal story, although well told, stretches credulity a bit when it comes to the people Fia, the protagonist, meets. There is a theme about fate in the game and if Gilbert is trying to make a point there, he should have explored it more.
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