To The Moon: When Stories Find The Stars

Imagine if you had the opportunity to travel back in time to carry out a your dying wish? Finding myself as a pair of scientists with a sense of wit and humor, I assist a man on his death bed and carry out the deed by going into his memories to reverse his decades-long regret into a peace that can help him finally rest. As part of my love for pixel games, this one in particular stuck out in my eye as it carries a story that influences the game play as you travel deeper and deeper into the old man's memories.

One of the things I found interesting about the game mechanics was how you have to find orbs of memories within the realms of each age pertaining to the greater moments of the plot. In this case, whereever the plot point was hidden in the memories of the old man, you have to obtain them in order to keep on moving back in time to find the point of where to complete the wish. However, the plot becomes increasing more intriguing as more mysteries and characters fill in the years of the old man and as well as give the players a view point about their own lives they we all might take for granted. In this sense, it makes the game more and more emotional, providing details about the characters that explain throwaway lines in the beginning that slowly accumulate in the ultimate suprise.

More so, it also has the opportunity to travel back in time to observe other characters and how they influence our main character's life, as well as the hidden darker mysteries pertaining to his dying wish. For this reason, it gives more drive for the scientists to work even harder into the dangerous depths of the past and dealing with the real-life debugging over the equipment helping them to travel in the first place. With all of these mysteries regarding all of the characters, it engages me as the player to explore deeper and deeper in the game as well as enjoy the humour on the side to balance out the heavier subjects in the game.

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