GI.net: "Time travel is a cool concept. No, it doesn't require "geek status" to actually get into it. I mean, I was about 10 years old when the role-playing game masterpiece Chrono Trigger was released, and I devoured it. Who wouldn't love to travel through time and correct the mistakes of the past - and perhaps even cause things to occur the way they were supposed to occur? Well, Konami has released an adventure game for the Nintendo DS: Time Hollow. So how does it stand up as a DS game? Read on to learn more.
In Time Hollow you follow 17-year-old Ethan Kairos. He lives with his parents until he goes to sleep one night and has a horrible dream that his parents disappear in a fire. He then wakes up and discovers he lives with his uncle Derek. Yet he clearly remembers living with his parents for 16 years. He also notices that morning that he has a pen (known as the Hollow Pen). This pen is not some ordinary pen. No, this pen allows the user to access things at previous times when all the proper information is in place. And when the past is changed, it allows the wielder to obtain impressions (flashbacks) of important events that have transpired. Thus, with pen in hand, Ethan sets out to discover what happened to his parents and help his friends stay alive over a course of several days."
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Nintendo Life writes: "Those who place a value of gameplay over storyline above all else will find Time Hollow a shallow and sometimes empty experience, yet in some ways they would be missing the point. This is a game that focuses tightly on character development and a gripping storyline exploring time travel that is hard to stop experiencing until the end sequence. There is little in the way of replay value asides from a short episode following a load of a previously completed game, but while it lasts, the tale of Time Hollow is compelling from start to finish".
VGC writes: "Imagine if you will, that tomorrow when you wake up, you possess the ability to alter your past. You accidentally overcook breakfast? Not anymore, simply open a small portal to the past and take the pan off of the burner so that breakfast was never burnt to begin with. Later at work you then accidentally spill your ridiculously hot coffee all over your keyboard. No problem though, as you can open a portal to the past and move that coffee to a shelf that is nowhere near arm's reach. But let's say you really go off the deep end this time and happen to carelessly sideswipe a pedestrian during your speedy drive home from work. Once again, didn't happen, you quickly open a portal and move the once blindsided pedestrian out of harm's way."
