/dev/etc 03 Feb 2008 04:45 pm
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Just watched this totally great anime movie called “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” and now I’m in a really good mood. Here are pictures of what I feel like:
It’s a Coming of Age Time Travel Love Story, and really, that combination seems to be the perfect alchemic mixture to tweak my mood up by at least 3 notches, maybe 4. One of the central themes is the importance of the preservation of art! Another one is the unspoken guilt of a time-traveler! It’s the sequel to a book called (roughly) “The Little Girl Who Conquered Time” and it’s kind of a big deal in Japan since it’s apparently quite popular and touching and it sort of came out of nowhere. Also, the author of the original book said this is “a true second-generation” of his book from the 1960s. The skies in this movie are the bluest I’ve seen in a thousand days.
Anyway, this got me thinking. We don’t have any games with time-travel where you can choose how far to go back. I mean, we sort of do, in the sense that we can load an older save, but the character we play has no idea that we’re rewinding time. I really want a game that has important decision points throughout that you can only see based on your choices in the first hour of play. Maybe an adventure game?
