Just finished episode 4, and my god, this is the coolest game I've ever played. The developer really has a talent. Graphics, animations, music, story. Everything is top notch. I was expecting the usual passable game for a couple of hours, but I spent both weekends playing this game and I don't regret it one bit. To write such a huge text and not descend into meaningless graphomania - a talent. The only game that made me feel like that was Once in a lifetime, but in Ripples I've already counted a lot of references to it, so + to the developer. Well, a few theories from me:
1. The man in the mask, it seems to me, is really our father. He has the same hairstyle (you can see it at the end of episode 3 when we have the dream with dad on the beach), and he's a time traveler, which correlates with our missing father. It's possible that the father traveled 20 years into the past, but couldn't go back, which explains his age.
2. I don't think the player is also his father. His mother only recently became pregnant in 1999, which means you have to wait about 8-9 months before his sister is born, which is quite a long time.
3. I think the player might be Skylar's father. Of all the mothers, she's the only one who reacted so unusually to him, and I don't think a photographic memory and "oven not turned off" is reason enough. If I met someone who looked exactly like someone I'd seen 20 years ago, I'd just think they were related. When I showed pictures of my father when he was my age, my friends thought it was me, rather than building theories about time travel, or running away in terror. I think the player with Luna is going to have sex. Skylar's age at 19 is quite suitable for conception in September 1999.
Either way, episode 5 should shed some light. Oh, and the player is a doofus because he didn't think to read the message from Skylar for the entire hour that he and the masked man were walking to the time machine.
1. The man in the mask, it seems to me, is really our father. He has the same hairstyle (you can see it at the end of episode 3 when we have the dream with dad on the beach), and he's a time traveler, which correlates with our missing father. It's possible that the father traveled 20 years into the past, but couldn't go back, which explains his age.
2. I don't think the player is also his father. His mother only recently became pregnant in 1999, which means you have to wait about 8-9 months before his sister is born, which is quite a long time.
3. I think the player might be Skylar's father. Of all the mothers, she's the only one who reacted so unusually to him, and I don't think a photographic memory and "oven not turned off" is reason enough. If I met someone who looked exactly like someone I'd seen 20 years ago, I'd just think they were related. When I showed pictures of my father when he was my age, my friends thought it was me, rather than building theories about time travel, or running away in terror. I think the player with Luna is going to have sex. Skylar's age at 19 is quite suitable for conception in September 1999.
Either way, episode 5 should shed some light. Oh, and the player is a doofus because he didn't think to read the message from Skylar for the entire hour that he and the masked man were walking to the time machine.
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