{"id":2447,"date":"2011-07-22T00:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2011-07-11T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T00:12:58","slug":"knee-deep-in-this-puzzle-shit-michael-j-fox-because-michael-j-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Knee Deep In This Puzzle Shit: Michael J. Fox Because Michael J. Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished the Back to the Future saga! So that&#8217;s a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take the ending separate from the basic plot. As I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2445\">the post about Double Visions<\/a>, I really liked where the plot went. The inherent selfishness of what Marty and Doc do with the time machine was addressed in a logical way, but not one that makes them seem like monsters, perse. They do what they do because they feel it&#8217;s the right thing, but it let them see what gets caught up in the wake of them doing it, much more than I remember being addressed before. That&#8217;s super cool, and this episode, where Alternate Universe Doc decides to just go all out, and tries to manipulate his past self. just falls into that perfectly. It&#8217;s just a really good idea for a series of puzzles and encounters, to be sure. Later on, having to stop Edna yet again? It also worked for me. It was great. You even get a bit of a callback to Part 3. Smooth stuff. I was enjoying it. I was even down with Edna getting a &#8220;happy&#8221; ending, of sorts. Makes Marty and Doc not seem like monsters, and Alternate Universe Doc gets what he wanted. A bit convenient, but not a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>But man, the ending.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I know it&#8217;s supposed to be a callout to the way the first movie ends and stuff. But it just seemed like &#8220;Fuck, we have Michael J. Fox? Let&#8217;s use Michael J. Fox.&#8221; It felt completely out of place, and how they deal with that situation that comes up, where they drive off and fly away FOR NO REASON, just&#8230; it was stupid. Very stupid. They can do better than that. They had been all season! I was saddened by this.<\/p>\n<p>Still, though the puzzles had rough spots, in general, this is a game that people who enjoy Back to the Future should play. It is fun. It is, for the most part, well-written. I certainly don&#8217;t regret picking it up. But it could have used some help, certainly. Telltale seemed too tugged because pleasing it&#8217;s Adventure Game fanbase, and attempting to please a bunch of new people who don&#8217;t know about Adventure Game genre conventions, and just want another Back to the Future experience. It&#8217;s probably a good thing that they&#8217;re completely revamping things for that Jurassic Park game. I hope that turns out alright. I am still a huge Telltale fan, for certain. They make something, and I will play it. While not their finest hour, I had fun. So there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished the Back to the Future saga! So that&#8217;s a thing. Let&#8217;s take the ending separate from the basic plot. As I mentioned in the post about Double Visions, I really liked where the plot went. The inherent selfishness of what Marty and Doc do with the time machine was addressed in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}