Time Hollow for the DS

[ManicMatt]

Anyone played it? hello, anyone?

Well it came out today in the UK, and I must say I'm rather enjoying it! It's an adventure game where you go around talking to people and solving clues. I like the idea that the main character has a Time pen that at certain times when he's got enough clues, he can literally draw a hole in time and see what happened at a certain point in the past and be able to affect it, via the confines of that hole he made.



It's nicely drawn, lovingly made, the cutscenes have speech and are fully animated like a cartoon- goodness knows how they compress that on to those cartridges - and I bought it without reading one review.. a faith in Konami if you will.



The concept kind of reminds me of the Shadow Of memories game on the PS2. Which is also by PS2. (And goes by a different name in USA I think..)

I just read this on a wiki:
The game was written by Junko Kawano, whose Playstation 2 work Shadow of Memories also features a young man using a time-travelling device to try and alter their future.

[Domino]

Looks like a good game, I could use more games in my DS collection.

[LimpingFish]

Tis a Visual Novel, and a mostly linear one. Very nicely presented, though. The story is fun, but it could have used more...game, really.

I bought the US version off Play-Asia last year. Much cheaper.

European DS prices are soul-crushing.

[m0ds]

Never heard of it, I didn't realise playing a DS was still cool either I thought they were mostly marketted at girls nowadays? Some guy mates had one but that didn't last long, heh.

I love those DS adverts, in a love to hate kind of way. There's that one with a really hot blonde sitting on a sofa playing the worlds most boring game where you water plants and I'm just like nooooooooooooo you're so fudging hot and you should be getting laaaiid not playing DS on your sofa!!!

None the less at least the concept of the game you've posted actually sounds quite interesting.

[Obi]

I went and picked this game up from ManicMatt's gameshop earlier. So far it's been okay, reminds me a bit of those hentai dating games the kids play a bit though.

[LimpingFish]

So far it's been okay, reminds me a bit of those hentai dating games the kids play a bit though.

Yeah, a Visual Novel is a Visual Novel, regardless of the theme or content. As a gaming experience, they're largely interchangeable. Time Hollow does have added levels of interaction of course, as did Hotel Dusk, etc. No tits, though.

I didn't realise playing a DS was still cool either...

When was it ever cool? I'm still a regular DS gamer. Though, as I said earlier, I rarely buy PAL versions.

And if you want to play Castlevania games, it's the only system to own.

[ManicMatt]

yeah I can agree with it being an interactive visual novel. The story is so twisting and intriguing that it get's me thinking just as much as a puzzle heavy game! I have to say it's one of my fave DS adventure games. I just hope it's not too short.

[LUniqueDan]

Here's one of the 5-6 reasons why I should buy a DS.
That's looking awesome. I just love those J-Adventures.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Dan, you must have missed the part where Fish said there was no porn in the game. 

[magintz]

Just finished playing this. Really pleasant game to play. Visually pretty with very nicely drawn characters and animation cut scenes. The music was really good also.

As far as the story and game play went it was very limited, very much a visual novel but still good fun to play if not a little short.