If you enjoy puns, this game is FULL of them.Īs great as the story and gameplay are, the strongest aspect of Chronology has to be the amazing graphics. And I can’t forget to mention the puns… oh those puns. The music and sound design also blends well giving you a real separation of the past and future and can change the feel of a situation in seconds. It’s beautifully told and leaves you wanting to learn more and more the longer you play. This combination of gameplay mechanics works great and creates some really interesting puzzles that are incredibly satisfactory to overcome.Īlthough the story is short, maybe only 1 hour 30 minutes to finish on a good run, the way it is told through the characters fantastic voice acting and the concept art cutscenes creates a wonderful atmosphere in the game while you learn about the world and the characters. The Snail also has the ability to freeze time, allowing the Inventor to jump onto a moving platform that was moving too fast for example. He also has the ability to call the Snail to his exact location (depending on the type of platform) which is extremely useful, as you can probably imagine, snails are slow as heck! The Snail can move along walls and ceilings, and with the ability of jumping on its shell as the Inventor, it creates a whole new way to traverse the world. If he is holding an object, he can take it through time and place it in that timeline to be used to advance, such as planting a tree in the past and climbing the fully grown tree in the future. The Inventor has the ability to change time to the future or the past, changing the surrounding and state of objects.
Whereas Braid had enemies to defeat and use in puzzles, Chronology uses AI as another obstacle to surpass, along with many interactable objects and time travelling to make things pretty confusing at times. The camera angle and the separation of the foreground and background make it look similar to LIMBO, and the mechanics of time manipulation to solve puzzles remind me of Braid, but in a pretty different way. As stated previously, the game looks and feels like a combination of Braid and LIMBO with its own sprinkle of magic.
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