好玩 期待第二部

Well i completed it in a little over 9 hours but can honestly say it wasn't a waste of money. In fact I managed to save 5 people although i stalled and tried to figure out the last one...won't give it away completely though. As a British person familiar with this region and old enough to be a student around the same time XD I can say i found the situation and characters to be fairly believable.

I've played similar games and i enjoy not only puzzles but also time travel and this scratched that itch nicely, albeit somewhat briefly. Don't get me wrong it wasn't easy but I reckon I've got a talent for this kinda stuff...spent way to much time playing the Chrononauts card game to not understand a bit about causality. I think you need to have a decent understanding of how people behave in certain situations too. Helped that I was a Back to Future fan and i'm also old enough to remember TimeCop!

Anyway I would like to see more like this but in a campaign form where you have to resolve various historical situations to effect the timeline in any given way. I've seen one or two other games that delve into time travel but it's fun to mess around with events and see them play out and that's maybe the biggest appeal...to feel like GOD! Ahem but i also just enjoyed the setting and story. Here's the verdict.

Graphics - 9/10 All in keeping with a burnt out house XD
Sound - 9/10 Voice acting and sound effects in keep with the feel of the game.
Gameplay - 9/10 Was easy to get into and understand, not too complicated.

Overall - 9/10 So i guess that's the verdict. just lacks replayability but otherwise is a good bit of fun if you like time travel and puzzles!

First the bad news: It is at heart a very British kitchen sink drama concerning how "Grim it is up north!" with a rather tenuous premise of "correcting the time lines." For anyone who has not experienced a British kitchen-sink drama, think of this one as a story arc from Friends but with humour removed and real consequences to debt, illness, relationships, and poverty.

Now the good news: The voice acting and script writing are top notch. I have played a number of narrative driven stories such as SOMA, Bookwalker, Sker series of games, The Invincible, and a bunch of walking simulators which won awards from a bunch of 'lovies' congratulating each other; Eternal Threads' voice acting puts all those to shame. There are some clunky run-on lines. That's where in real life a person would have stopped talking but for some reason the script writers felt they needed to add "just one final punch from the character." Thankfully, these were rare enough to prevent them being annoying. A good thing, too, as the actors were clearly unsure of how to deliver the unnecessary verbiage. When writing is unnatural, delivery will inevitably be unnatural.

This game aspires just to be an ordinary story. Everyday drama. Everyday situations. No existential angst or moralising, no examinations of what it means to be human in an inhuman world, just an ordinary story. It is this very ordinariness which makes this the best game of its type I have ever played. In many ways the game is simply a vehicle for the actors to show their skills. I hope this gig leads to more success.

Oh, and as a bonus "Joey climbs the space ladder to join the aliens at the end"..... Kinda.
You will understand when you finish the game.