The average life expectancy in ♏Germany is 80.94 years. The average life expectancy in the UK is 80.90 years. The average life expectancy in Canada is 81.75 years. That’s why I, an English person 𝓀playing Time Flies in Germany for a Canadian website, elected to make my fly Canadian, and became the world’s best fly.
Substitute ‘years’ for ‘seconds’, and that’s Time Flies. You choose your country of origin (the game will automatically pick yours u🦂p), and gives you one second for every year of that country’s life expectancy. You then have that many seconds to clear a fly’s bucket list. Some tasks are relatively straightforward - my fly wanted to ‘Get Drunk’, and so I found a glass of wine. Others, like wanting to ‘Roll With It’ required a little more lateral thinking, turning it into a puzzle game as well as one of exploration.
Even these relatively straightforward tasks come with challenges, and that&rꦚsquo;s only from the first level. Attempting to get drunk, I initially fell into the glass of wine and died, before realising I needed to instead land on one of the smaller droplets. As for ‘Roll With It’, I needed to find some toilet roll and unspool iওt with my little Canadian fly legs until I was done. The goals being so simple forces you to think about their application, without them ever straying into becoming overly complicated themselves.
However, the game won’t just leave you to your own devices. Most of the time as you explore the house, you are just a black dot. But when you’re near something on your bucket list, the 𒁏camera zooms in. This both offers more detail and highlights that you are close to what you need - at least, most of the time.
Early on I found a TV remote, and the game zoomed in. I’d already been conditioned to understand this, so I hopped on each of the four buttons. Nothing happened. I hopped on each one individually and then flew away to watch the screen. Nothing happened. I waiꦜted until the animations on the screen reset. Nothing happened. Eventually the dev cut in. “There’s nothing for this. It’s not an accomplishment to waste your life watching television.” My fly died shortly after, having achieved very little.
Each puzzle was small enough th꧑at it could be figured out with just a little bit of thinking, but taxing enough to feel rewarding. The abstract nature of the descriptions played into this too - a lot of the time I was just trying to do things and seeing what came up. I landed on a vinyl record player knowing something would happen, but didn’t expect it to count as ‘Go On Tour’.
I had 30 minutes with Time Flies, including the polite handshakes and walking to the booth, and the game’s name proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I had three minutes left and one item to cross off my list. My appointment was late on the Thursday, with just one day left of the show, and the dev told me💮 several people had gotten this far, but nobody had completed the game.
We hadn’t all fallen at the same hurdle. Some failed to ‘Start A Revolution’, ꦑwhich is done by spinning a bike wheel. Others couldn’t ‘Make Someone Laugh’, by finding a sleeping human and tickling their feet. I, meanwhile, couldn’t help my fly ‘Find Yourself’.
One of the first things I found was a diorama of the house in a toy train set. This acted as the game’s map, showing me rooms I hadn’t visited and the locations of them. Having quickly memorised the layout, I didn’t pay it much mind. But with time running out🔯, I searched again. Maybe I had missed a room? With just one second to spare of my last run, I found the starting room, and in it, the mode🦩l of a tiny fly. I had Found Myself. And with it, I could die happy, my bucket list secured.
In the full game, there will be more levels with more flies, but I think all of mine will be Canadian. The most moreish game of Gamescom, Time Flies is a fantastic puzzle game that everyone needs to check out when it launches on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation, Switch, and PC next year.