However, instead of resting in peace for eternity, Eike finds himself in a surreal room, summoned by a strange androgyne voice, who grants him the opportunity to go back in time to prevent his untimely demise. After a dozing off while having a cup of coffee, your protagonist, Eike Kusch, gets assaulted immediately as soon as he leaves the cafe, knowing neither who killed him nor why. The story of Shadow of Memories opens with a murder - your own. Day of the Tentacle should stay the lonely king of time travel in games for a whole eight years, until Konami released Shadow of Memories for the PlayStation 2 in 2001, which became finally a worthy queen on its side. The main drive around most of the puzzles was to change something in the past, so that problems would be solved in the present or future.
This kind of gameplay device was (somewhat) recently refined by the downloadable adventure/platformer Braid.īy far the most consequential example of gameplay-relevant actual time travel for a long time was delivered by Lucasarts' comedy adventure Maniac Mansion: Day of The Tentacle, whose three protagonists are stuck in seperate timelines, and can only interact by flushing objects through the time travel toilet (yeah, you read that right). Other than the original, whose only relation with time was to limit your adventure to one hour, the Prince here holds the Dagger of Time, which gives him the power to slow down the flow of time, or actually rewind it a few seconds to undo his mistakes. Another approach is taken by Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Chrono Trigger, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Onimusha 3 all follow the basic concept of manipulating persons or objects in the past to achieve your goals in the present. Some RPG or adventure games have experimented with time causalities, where your actions in one time period aid to your advancement in the future. However, most of these games share one common characteristic: time travel is merely used as a plot device, while games that incorporate the flow of time into their gameplay are rather few and far between in comparison. We've prevented the alien invaders from destroying Earth as the Duke himself in Duke Nukem Zero Hour - not without giving his past self a call through the centuries - snatched time crystals from the Time Splitters, hunted Dinosaurs together with the Native American Turok, and much, much more.
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So it hardly comes as a surprise that video gaming, too, is full of time travel stories. Be it simple visits as a mere spectator without influence, like Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, the "visitor from the past", like the British medieval wizard Catweazle, or elaborate cause-effect constructs about the manipulation of the flow of time like the Back to the Future trilogy - people have always obsessed over the idea of changing one's past, killing Hitler, or getting an outlook on the future. Time travel stories hold an universal appeal to mankind.
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