Rumours of my death weren't exaggerated, but luckily someone went back in time and stopped a dog being killed in a typhoon a year ago, so I got better

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and welcome to the show. More apologies for my untimely posts, I've been at my girlfriend's the past week and as such have been somewhat distracted from coding and stuff due to awesome times. I could attempt to "review" the Royal Armouries in Leeds but she's the history buff, not me, and as such I'm not qualified to tell you how awesome it is. Was pretty good though. Moving on today's subject is a game for the DS called Time Hollow.

In Time Hollow you play a high school student named Ethan who finds his world completely turned upside-down, inside-out, and whatever 4th dimensional phrases would fit this sentence, because as you might've been able to tell from the title, Time Hollow features Time as a major element. Time travel, specifically, which is why I was interested in the first place, time travel being on that list of things that make me go "oooo" along with crafting systems. Even if my mind is slightly broken after trying to work out whether or not the game's plot is a stable time loop or not.

Gameplay-wise, it's like a rather simple visual novel or interactive fiction, with you going around town, piecing together clues and fixing things. Actual Game Over is fairly difficult and since I'm halfway competent about these things I didn't get to see if it's a reload-from-save situation or what. The gameplay is rather lackluster to be honest, a simple vehicle with some interesting twists in places, built to facilitate the story.

This post is probably going to be somewhat short, since most of the meat comes from the story and I have no intention of spoiling it, but I will say that it managed to keep me interested and playing in spite of the less than amazing gameplay, through about... maybe 12 hours of completing it. Graphically it's pretty much standard fare for a visual novel, with occasional anime style cutscenes at key moments in the plot.

There's not much depth to this game, which is probably why I stopped writing this for three hours, but it tells a story, and it tells it well. Or maybe that's my time travel adoration flaring up again.


...Incidentally, while we're here, Pokémon Global Link is up and nobody told me. I think I know what I'm gonna be playing this week.