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Simple and Good Story Tries to Be Bigger Than It Actually Is
This game really pumps up the expectations so much: the trailer in the shop, the loading screen, the main menu and the first minutes of the game tell you: there's something BIG here. The whole world might depend on it. And it has time travel. So yeah, of course, I'm into it!
Later though I understood that the scale was smaller, much smaller.
Not in a bad way, though.
The synopsis says: Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence. Pretty vague, but promising, right? But it would be more accurate to say: ...Can you save all of the six inhabitants, if you have been given the power of time manipulation?. It is still not bad, yeah?
Walking and Watching Cutscenes Simulator
Hell, I don't know why my positive review sound like I'm scolding a game?! The gameplay here is extremely simple: you watch what has happened and try to change things, so maybe it will work out better. The "puzzle" part of the game is towards finding that chain of events that will click perfectly to the best outcome possible.
But I am not trying to say that this is bad gameplay. It feels like a movie, which you can watch in any order, all of the scenes are interconnected, but no one prevents you from watching everything in reverse, for example. You know, there is a "Memento" movie that goes in reverse? You can try making it a "Memento" experience. Or focus on one story line and all variations of that storyline, before tipping the toes in other things?
While this is 80% of "Walking and Watching Cutscenes", it is rather an interesting way of telling a story in free format and it is up to the player to decide how he wants it.
I must admit, the "Walking" part made me bored here and there a bit, but the "Watching Cutscenes" was good.

Butterfly Effect Simulator
We take one house, one week and six people. And a ton of possibilities. Haven't you ever wondered on that simple question "What If..."?
Oh, don't lie, we all have had these thoughts, it is a part of human nature, and game takes this urge of a human brain and gives you the power! And it is not a world-scale issues that changing, it is just personal lives. This is about having secrets, telling truths and lies, hiding and exposing weaknesses, and understanding that not every bad thing happening to us is actually bad in perspective.
Aren't we all make mistakes, wrong decisions and having regrets of our past? This game touches these feelings a little bit, while remaining on a small scale, and tells a short story, gives you a glimpse to possibilities. And this is great.