After stumbling into an elegant bathhouse and reading a cautionary note, you enter a portal transporting you back ~2000 years into a now-restored Roman city. In keeping with her reputation, she presses you to find someone who'd wandered to some nearby ruins. You’re miraculously saved by a mysterious Karen (really) from drowning in the Tiber River. Now with a budget, a bigger crew, professional voice actors, and so on, his studio's first title arrives nearly five years after that mod. It's a humble origin story of insane dedication to a Skyrim mod that netted him industry writing awards and the drive to make a full game. Although not before Eiji Aonuma &Yoshiaki Koizumi ( Majora's Mask ), writer/developer Nick Pearce was technically ahead of his other time loop-inspired contemporaries. Time loops are quietly becoming all the rave these days. By Lee Mehr, posted on 02 September 2021 / 1,284 Views
