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i like how the time travel and different dimensions and stuff accurately matched what i had always thought it to be in my head.
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This brings back memories of reading "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. Including the Truman Show was brilliant as was mentioning brain scanned into a computer. I like the conversation about the Cat Memes too. The endings were the most interesting part. I like how they reveal bits of what's going on. #23 and #29 were favorites of mine. On the other hand, the great conversation about the real Angela versus Future Todd's idealization was followed up by rather boring endings. I don't see any issue with the idea of the AI script taking over Future Todd's body. It's straight out of The Matrix Reloaded with Agent Smith. It also makes the story something better and more mature than a lame teen drama or the dating sim it sounds like at the start. Grimly, no matter what Todd does, Old Todd is always going to be a creepy letch. I felt weird even exploring some of his plans just to read what you wrote because they were that despicable. Anyway, I enjoyed reading this and would enjoy more from you.
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"Uh, well, the government did actually use that Facebook information to draft people for the second Korean war in 2013..." Todd replied.
Yeah. I don't remember that.
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This is just amazing, the way you discover the story piece by piece, and the unique expirience that all the players get, thanks to the multiple finals and the liberty to go back and foward as you want. The story is awesome, depressing when you get more and more finals, and even more when you get them all. But it is perfect, because you aren't a Good man, with a Good cause, no, you are a the beggining of a shitty man, and you can't change the true and unique reality, only get the Ilussion of the time travell in only ONE final. The character develop is also unique, how they break, how you can end up like a TOTAL shit, or try to defend Angela, and the true Todd revealing who is him really. This the kind of works that reveal videogames ARE art.
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This is a beautifully made game. On my first ending of the game, I was really confused but as I started going through more and more endings it slowly made sense to me. I would like to see an ending where after getting the 35 ends, you have a finale as you confront your future self. I think this would make the games end a lot more fulfilled.
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OK. So this is an amazing game, and its reasoning on avoiding arguments to its credibility is quite sound. But I have one question: Can Future Todd show himself only to his past(or possibly future) self, and not, can he influence his appearance to others?
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I didn't get all endings - I got like five or so I think? - because there are WAY too many, but it's a really cool game. It's simple, and I like how the expressions change depending on the dialogue!
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Is there any way to get the soundtrack of this game, now that Kongregate removed it's art/music section? I really liked it.
Yeah, it's kind of buried in the game description. Here you go:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/410095
https://soundcloud.com/edbrew/what-lies-beneath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5TAwZg9GCE
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"Never play with time travel, you might get hurt"
This game didn't pay heed to this warning but still made a perfect piece of art. Now that, is what I call perfect use of Time Travel
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there should be options to break the ear piece not to spoil anything but I think there should be unless I've missed it because I've always wondered what will happen if the earpiece is destroyed what happens to the world
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What one second.. so what happens here? Todd hopped off his swing and started walking back to the car. About a minute passed before he heard a scream from behind. Another followed, more muffled than the first.
He continued walking back toward his car.
Is future Todd raping Angelina or something? Why doesn't Todd turn back? You need to explain this.
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Interesting that Todd could grow up into Future Todd's world. I wonder what would happen (or if it's even possible) if Todd bought his own earpiece and made a whole new universe inside his own, and THAT universes Todd gets is own, and each fragmented universe spawns their own to the point that it questions Future Todd's existence! . . . I wonder what my cat is doing.
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WAIT after playing through most of the endings it appears that our universe [the one we control] is just a simulation.... that was all pointless then
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not a great game but its a great novel! I cant stop reading it!! I still think you could turn this into a great game with more art design and stuff. Great story wow!
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The summary of endings would be more useful if it gave the actual ending rather than the path that took you there, or both.
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I realize you have to find every ending to figure out what is actually going on, but each individual ending was pretty lame.
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@Nikss: the time travel/simulation machine is something very known in the future(even being illegal),so Clint noticed the earpiece+the weird Todd behaviour made him suspect the was a simulation machine and future Todd was replaced by Todd.
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I think this was an amazing story. The concept of Time Travel has been already milked a hundred times, so this is much more interesting. Also, the character portrayal is good, but you could tell us more about Clint, why he was attacked, whether the device is his or not (that's where I'm confused). Epic story, any way you look at it. But if some lunatic cut a finger of my spouse (in the future) and claimed that he is innocent, I wouldn't have been very.... receptive. That's the only thing that puzzled me, how they all just gave up and accepted you.
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that was an... interesting experience and now im gona be terrified of ever trying any tech that may be invented like this.
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I have never been much of one to sit down and actually read anything apart from the daily local or global news but I must say this game pulled me in, and I couldn't stop until all 35 endings were read. Beautiful creation, sad story, depending on the viewer. Hope to see more works of art from you similar in nature.
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I really wasn't expecting this game to be nearly as wonderful, addicting, deep, interesting, impactful, fun, or amazing as it was. It's truly great and I'd recommend it to anybody any day.
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"Uh, well, the government did actually use that Facebook information to draft people for the second Korean war in 2013..." Todd replied.
lol
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A brilliant story that couldn't have been portrayed through a better medium. Making a game out of this story is probably its greatest genius.