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In Stars and Time Looped Me In, and Didn’t Let Go
13.11.2023 - 15:04 / ign.com
I’ve written about a lot of games in this column in the last year, all of which I’ve loved very much. But I don’t think I’ve been totally obsessed with any of them in the way I’ve been obsessed with In Stars and Time. For a week, I stayed up late every night because I couldn’t put it down. I dreamed about it. I sat at my desk at work, watching the clock, eager for the hour when I could finally get home and try again to unravel the mystery of what was really going on in the hearts and heads of protagonist Siffrin and his companions.
In Stars and Time fits into a lovely mental box I have going of RPGs that riff on the Earthbound tradition by contrasting themes of earnestness and joy with an unsettling metanarrative that riffs on the very idea of something being a video game. Undertale is the best popular example of this, but I’d put games like Mother 3, Contact, Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, and a number of others into the same category with it. If you like any of the stuff I just listed, buddy, you’ll DIG In Stars and Time.
But critically, In Stars and Time is radically unique in this genre I’ve made up, too. It’s a time loop game: we join the hero Siffrin at the very end of his adventure with his companions Mirabelle, Bonnie, Odile, and Isabeau. Together, they explore and rest in the final town before the final dungeon of their journey. Then, they use the five orbs they collected before the game even started to open the great House of Change, fight their way through its three monster-ridden floors to the very top, where a menacing figure known only as the King awaits them, having frozen much of the country in time for unknown (but surely sinister!) reasons. If it sounds like I’ve just described the entire plot of the final few hours of an RPG, bingo, I have. You now know everything you’ll be doing in In Stars and Time, over and over again. Because as Siffrin quickly finds out, every time he dies on the way to that fateful battle, time restarts. He’s given chance after chance to ensure the safety of his friends, all the way to the end, again and again. And even when the crew finally succeeds in their goals…well, there’s more video game after that perhaps, but I won’t say more.
I don’t have nearly enough room in this little column to gush over all the things In Stars and Time does that made me fall so hard for it, but I’ll try to take you through some highlights. The art in In Stars and Time is splendid, its character portraits and comic panel scenes bursting with personality. That same level of detail is present and appreciated from the game’s stellar descriptive writing, too, successfully convincing me to poke in every single nook and cranny on each subsequent loop, eager to see what text might have changed
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