![]() ![]() In some ways the fact that 80 Days is a game and, as such, has challenge and goals to it, is almost a shame. The characters are so lively that it feels sort of out of place to find them meekly waiting for days as money is wired to them. Also the system for obtaining money from banks can be frustrating, with the knowledge that if you do find yourself out of money at any point there’s a good chance you won’t make it home on time. Indeed, the game encourages you to see just what Passepartout can get away with.Ĩ0 Days only suffers when it tries to be more conventionally gamey – for example, the inventory and market system feels like an unnatural fit, as though it had been grafted on from a different game with a different purpose. Mistakes can prove costly to the journey, but Passepartout has a range of talents, and fortune often favours the bold. Unlike the old Choose Your Own Adventure books – which were perfectly happy to kill your character off for making a wrong turn, or even making what looked like a right turn – 80 Days lets you have fun with its narrative. The game draws you into its world, delivering surprises all the time. Locations, characters and modes of transport are sketched out well enough to create impressions of depth and to fire the imagination, without the sort of detail that might cause them to lose their mystique. This is a strange but enjoyable experience, and the prose through which the story is delivered is sparse yet intriguing. Other elements, like Fogg’s reactions or descriptions of places and people, can also be selected – so maybe a town is bustling as you arrive, or maybe Passepartout is too busy looking at the skyline, and misses seeing all that. One early example involves negotiating the line at a train station: it can be done merely by choosing the lines in the story that lead to the path of least resistance, or (if you like) you can make things more difficult for Passpartout, and in the process bring out different traits in his character. In a typical game like this you’d expect to play from the first-person perspective of the main character and choose what they do – with the story typically told in the second person – but 80 Days gives you both control over Passepartout and the world and characters around him.
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