What It Could Have Done BetterĪs I mentioned above, The Rewinder would have benefited from some voice-over work. Although, it still would have been nice to have some voice-over character dialogue. A game like this doesn’t need to have spectacular sound and as a smaller budget title, it is understandable that the bulk of the work went into the gameplay mechanics and pixel art design. The introduction has some voice-over work translated to English in text, but that’s about it. In the sound department, The Rewinder doesn’t do anything out of the norm and most of the dialogue is presented as text without voice acting. Some of the fire and weather effects, as well as night cycle scenes really wowed me as far as graphics were concerned. While human characters lack detail (as with most pixel art games) some of the creatures and ghosts you will encounter are complex and it’s clear that the developers took their time creating the non-human characters. Some of the graphical moments that stood out to me were the assortment of unique characters you will come across. I love when developers use pixel art and if you’re a fan of new games using that traditionally old-school art style, you’re in for a treat! I really like the pixel art graphics and it looks like a game that could have come out in the early to mid-90s. The world in The Rewinder features run-down buildings, shrines, caves, and other unique environments. It’s rewarding to successfully change a memory by planting the correct combination of thoughts and see the game world change. It’s somewhat difficult to explain the entire process and all that goes into it but once you do a few, it becomes more familiar. If you advance to the end of the timeline without successfully changing a character’s thoughts, you will have a chance to try again and use a different combination of thoughts to alter that character’s memory and ultimately, save a life or alter the game world. There is a timeline bar at the bottom of the screen that allows you to freeze and advance time. Once in the memory, you will investigate the villagers’ thoughts in the scene and work to plant other ideas to change the outcome. You take that memory to a shrine which will feature a different puzzle each time to access the memory. Each memory resulted in a death that you are trying to change. ![]() There are memories associated with about seven characters throughout the world. You will investigate a certain portion of the world to find a memory. The bulk of the gameplay follows the same blueprint with puzzles and scenarios changing each time. It would be great if all points and click games implemented a feature that after a certain amount of time, the screen would highlight where to click. Unfortunately for The Rewinder, this problem has not been solved here either. One aspect of point-and-click adventure games that has always frustrated me is the trial and error associated with missing a click somewhere and looking around the environment for exactly where to click to advance the story. Sometimes the prompts that come up are basic, saying something along the lines of, “an empty bowl sits on a shelf.” Other times you can interact to start a puzzle or even have simple interactions throughout the village where the description is more detailed. The point-and-click aspects of the game allow the player to interact with certain items and areas of the world. ![]() Some could probably finish this game in three hours or less depending on how much time some of the more difficult puzzles take to solve. The mystery of what happened to the residents of Reed Village plays out over the course of around four hours. You will be assisted by unique creatures like ghosts, talking frogs, and mythical talking horses along the way all the way to the conclusion. As you progress through the game your actions as a Rewinder will save Reed Village residents while also altering the landscape of the world each time you use your powers. Two characters from the underworld that manage this process recruit the last remaining Rewinder, Yun, to investigate and fix the problem. The main story conflict in the game is that the souls of people from Reed Village are not making their way to the underworld for reincarnation. For example, the environment might change completely after the main character makes a change to a villager’s memory using his powers. Rewinders are special humans with the power to alter the past. The Rewinder centers around Chinese mythology.
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