Escape The Past

Essentially an escape adventure game, “Escape the Past” consists of four scenarios that you need to resolve to leave an unknown island where your main protagonist became stranded. Game consists of static hand-drawn-styled screens where you need to pick objects and uncover clues, which you then use to solve puzzles that unlock your way forward. Music, though somewhat subdued, is good and fits the scenes well; graphics have a nice touch, but the problem is that some corners are quite dark and it can be difficult to spot the objects to interact with. The game is quite short, each stage will likely take less than 10 minutes to solve for experienced players, and the story you can only piece together from found text scraps, giving the impression that it almost doesn’t matter at all. Still, the game plays well, and it’s available for a reasonable price (plus has trading cards for those who care), so it can be recommended to players who like this type of adventure games.

รีวิว Escape The Past เกมหาของเพื่อเปิดทางไปต่อขนาดสั้นเพียงแค่ 4 ด่าน แต่เล่นยาก เพราะในเกมไม่ได้บอกไว้ว่า เราจะต้องทำอะไร จึงต้องอาศัยการสังเกตและตรรกะพอสมควร เพื่อค้นหาคำบอกใบ้ที่ซ่อนอยู่ตามฉาก จึงจะสามารถผ่านไปได้ (แถมบางจุด เราจะต้องผสมของด้วยนะ) ซึ่งถ้าเล่นจบในแต่ละด่าน เราจะสามารถอ่านจดหมายของนางเอกได้ และเราก็จะรู้ในภายหลังว่า เนื้อเรื่องเกี่ยวกับการพยายามลืมอดีตของหญิงสาวคนหนึ่ง ที่เปรียบเทียบกับการพยายามดิ้นรนหาทางออกจากเกาะร้างแห่งนี้ พอเล่นแรกๆจะยาก แต่พอเล่นรอบสองก็จะง่ายขึ้น เพราะรู้คำตอบหมดแล้ว นำมาซึ่งการไขว่คว้าเหล่า Achievements ที่เหลือ เช่น ซ่อมเครื่องปั่นไฟให้ทันภายใน 4 นาที หรือทำระเบิดไดนาไมท์ภายใน 4 นาที เป็นต้น ใครชอบแนวหาของเพื่อเปิดทางไปต่อ แบบใช้สมอง 100% ก็จัดมาเลย ไม่ผิดหวังแน่นอนฮับ

This is a mostly decent point & click adventure game. You navigate different 2D scenes that you view from what I assume is the protagonist's POV, akin to most Hidden Object Games. However, unlike HOGs, this game does have an emphasis on actual puzzle solving instead of just locating random objects. The game is split into four episodes/chapters, all directly connected to each other. Interestingly, the game has a feature that measures the time you spend to finish each chapter. I don't think point & click adventure games are the most common games to gather the attention of speedrunners, but I guess it can be an interesting challenge to see how fast you can do each level. That said, once you've done a chapter once, it's very easy to do it rather quickly a second time, and I had no trouble getting any of the speedrun achievements on my second tries. The story is told mainly through the visuals and letters, of which you can find three in each chapter. However, it's very unclear whom has written the letters(you or someone else), and who "you" are. It might make sense that you're playing the woman portrayed in the title screen, but we never see the protagonist in any cinematics, a mirror, or anything like that. And nothing seems to explain why we're actually on this tiny island that we are, even if it's explained why we can't leave. (There's also no explanation for why the way we leave the island in the end works, when it apparently hasn't before.) Basically, lots of things are just left unanswered and unexplained, because so much of the story just seems to have been completely omitted. And what we're left with is an insubstantial, forgettable attempt at a mystery story of sorts. Story aside, the gameplay and puzzles are mostly nice. Everything is pretty easy, where it makes sense. And I say that because in the fourth and final chapter, logic is sort of tossed out the window. (Just like the car battery, instead of using your hammer or pickaxe.) For example, one puzzle has you combine a random, red crystal, an empty bottle that you fill with black powder, and some string to make a dynamite like bomb. You put that on the ground, and then you ignite it by putting glass shards on the bomb. Now, I can make some guesses as to the developer's thought process on this, but there was no precedence for explosive crystals before this, and perhaps you'd want a proper lens to focus sunrays properly to ignite the fuse, etc... It was just really bad design, and there's a lot of that in the final part of the game. The other three are more logical, at least. Even if what you're doing often only makes sense after the fact. Graphics wise, it's pretty nice. There are some glitches, with some items being drawn in front of others they should be behind. This is mostly a problem in the final chapter. Moving around in this game is mainly done by using left and right arrows in the upper corners of the screen. Sometimes it's also done by clicking on places and areas on screen. However, in the final two chapters, and especially in the fourth, the way it's done starts making much less sense. Already in the second chapter it can be slightly disorienting, but by chapter four it's an absolute mess: You use a key to unlock a door straight in front of you, but nothing happens visually to the door. If you click on it, it says it's still locked. Turns out you can now click on the arrow button to the left or right to move into the room that is straight ahead... Same thing goes for opening a door in the floor. After "unlocking" it, you need to click on the left arrow to move down... This only goes to further show how little logic applies in that final chapter. There could definitely be some improvements done here. All in all, I do think it was mostly worth my time, even if that last chapter kind of ruined much of the experience. I do hope the developer at least fixes the most glaring issues. (I'd be happy to list them all properly, because this review doesn't include everything.) But I'd say the game isn't worth the full asking price. As it stands, I suggest getting this at at least a 75% discount. 100% in a little less than 2 hours, without a guide or using the hint system(so I've no idea whether the hint system is good or not).

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Escape The Past 10/10

Oh, nice story, aproximatelly 2 hours of plaing or so, thanks for nuts. good for thinking.

马虎像，应该免费的。鼓励性好评吧。希望能更新中文，hope chinese. 202210本平台充值折扣，支付宝红包（？），humble，杉果（？），fanatical，本平台，本平台掉卡零钱，淘宝，它处自定义包入的本体4元。目前就这，看以后追评。