greysoli.blogg.se - Eternal threads of life

Rather than constantly travelling back and forth along the timeline of the week, you use some special technology and some light emitting drones to project key events, each a few seconds to a couple of minutes long. You turn up at their house in the middle of the night, a few hours after the fire has been put out and the bodies removed.

Linda - a housewife who has left her husband and son for a bit to figure out if she wants to stay in her marriage Neil's older sister.

Neil - a young man who likes video games and has anger issues, and likewise university student.

Raquel - Jenny's best friend, a voracious bisexual stereotype/cool party girl who always knows what to do, and likewise university student.

Jenny - a university student, loyal pal, and Ben's girlfriend who has inconveniently started feeling nauseous in the mornings but isn't thinking about that right now.

Ben - a junior doctor who has applied to join an MSF-like medical organisation but hasn't told his girlfriend.

Tom - a chill landlord who definitely doesn't have a secret room in the basement.

Let's list our dramatis personae, so it's easier for you to keep track: You can alter small decisions they make in the week running up to the fire, and so save their lives by choosing whether they go to the pub, if they comfort each other in times of need, or what they have arguments about.

While it is imperative for some reason that the fire does indeed happen, it is just as important that all six occupants live. To save a present that has been rendered apocalyptic by time travel itself, you are part of a team who go back and change tiny things in the past to fix it, in this case 2015. This is all by way of introduction to Eternal Threads, a puzzle game where you go back in time to stop everyone in a house share dying in a fire. My favourite episodes of Doctor Who, by contrast, were always the ones where the Doctor met a miserable dog-alien thousands of years in the future, and the dog alien is like "Not only is the planet about to blow, but my marriage is in trouble," and then the episode was mostly about the latter issue rather than the former. A killer robot is trying to kill a lady because of something her son will eventually do, that kind of thing. Time travel stories can have pretty high stakes, because usually you only travel in time when you really need to change something. It can be messy, and you'll run into walls of frustration, but if you can get over these hurdles, this is a fun kitchen-sink-drama-meets-sudoku.

Eternal Threads is like if Return Of The Obra Dinn was a time-travel soap opera.