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Coming right on the heels of Chronos Twins, Time Hollow is a game about a heroic cat who wakes up high school students from scary dreams. Welll, not really-- that's just our favorite part of the trailer (the green button on the website). From what we can tell, Konami's Time Hollow is actually a game about a high school student who, using a magic pen, goes back in time to fix tragedies that have affected his life, including the loss of his parents in a house fire.

The game involves using the magic time-travel pen to investigate areas across time: as the IGN preview puts it, you can "cut through the present day to look at what the same area was like at times gone by." From the two seconds or so of in-game video buried in the trailer, it appears to be a 2D graphical text adventure, with hand-drawn environments to investigate.
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Every other week Scott Jon Siegel contributes Off the Grid, a column on gaming away from the television screen or monitor.

Looney Labs -- makers of Fluxx and those bizarre Icehouse pieces -- are once again in their element with Chrononauts, a time-traveling card game that is almost too clever to work. Almost.

Unlike other games, it's the complexity of Chrononauts that saves it from mediocrity. With a heady central "timeline" mechanic, and a 44-page booklet of rules that reads like an operations manual for the Flux Capacitor, it would be pretty easy for the crunchy game to fold under the weight of its own ambition. Luckily for Looney, time travel was never meant to be easy, and it's too damn fun hopping through history to allow a little bit of complexity to get in the way.

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JoystiqOff the Grid reviews Chrononauts originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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