Post by Slime on Sept 29, 2008 0:05:14 GMT -5
Was looking for Sonicles (or Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood) for the DS on one of my rom sites, but stumbled onto this game that I had no idea about. Talk about impulse buying, or impulse downloading here, I just went ahead and got the game after reading very little about it.
Time Hollow, to start off is a text adventure game much like Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright, but without the action in court. Story revolves around a kid named Ethan and everything's fine and dandy until he gets hit with a flash back and suddenly his world started to change and his parents disappears. He then stumbles upon the hollow pen and the pen gives him the ability to change the past to fix the problems in the present. Trying not to spoil the story, but Ethan will keep getting hit with flashbacks which he would constantly have to fix and eventually all the fragments of flashbacks will pull itself together and create a very intriguing story that had my attention the entire game.
There isn't much to do in the game except for moving from place to place and investigating with your stylus and once you gather up the clues, you would use the stylus to open up holes with your hollow pen.
Minimal gameplay, but the game really grabs you in with its story and I guess I'm a sucker for games with an excellent story whether there is a lot or barely anything to do in the game, but I hate reading books. Story telling is excellent, will be a bit confusing in the beginning of the game, but it made me intrigued even more to see how the story will unfold itself and the last few chapters really got intense.
Overall, I enjoyed the game, but it's a very short game around 6-7 hours and I started and finished it this weekend. A nice touch to the game include anime custscenes, but each cutscene is very short and they're aren't much of them. Not as many puzzles as Hotel Dusk or Phoenix Wright, but the story from Time Hollow was a very enjoyable experience. Plus it's $30, cheaper than most of the newer DS games.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyAZkigSUdA&feature=related
People are comparing this game to the movie "The Butterfly Effect," but I never seen the movie so I don't have anything to say about this.
Time Hollow, to start off is a text adventure game much like Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright, but without the action in court. Story revolves around a kid named Ethan and everything's fine and dandy until he gets hit with a flash back and suddenly his world started to change and his parents disappears. He then stumbles upon the hollow pen and the pen gives him the ability to change the past to fix the problems in the present. Trying not to spoil the story, but Ethan will keep getting hit with flashbacks which he would constantly have to fix and eventually all the fragments of flashbacks will pull itself together and create a very intriguing story that had my attention the entire game.
There isn't much to do in the game except for moving from place to place and investigating with your stylus and once you gather up the clues, you would use the stylus to open up holes with your hollow pen.
Minimal gameplay, but the game really grabs you in with its story and I guess I'm a sucker for games with an excellent story whether there is a lot or barely anything to do in the game, but I hate reading books. Story telling is excellent, will be a bit confusing in the beginning of the game, but it made me intrigued even more to see how the story will unfold itself and the last few chapters really got intense.
Overall, I enjoyed the game, but it's a very short game around 6-7 hours and I started and finished it this weekend. A nice touch to the game include anime custscenes, but each cutscene is very short and they're aren't much of them. Not as many puzzles as Hotel Dusk or Phoenix Wright, but the story from Time Hollow was a very enjoyable experience. Plus it's $30, cheaper than most of the newer DS games.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyAZkigSUdA&feature=related
People are comparing this game to the movie "The Butterfly Effect," but I never seen the movie so I don't have anything to say about this.
