START AGAIN: a prologue

START AGAIN: a prologue is a compact narrative RPG that takes the familiar concept of a repeating time loop and uses it to explore isolation, frustration, friendship, and the emotional damage caused by remembering events that everyone else continually forgets. Created and published by insertdisc5, the game follows Siffrin, an adventurer traveling with a small group of companions on what should be the final stretch of their quest. Their objective is to confront the King and break the strange curse that has frozen the country in time. Unfortunately for Siffrin, death does not provide an escape. Whenever things go wrong, they return to an earlier point while their companions carry on without any memory of what previously happened. The premise becomes much more interesting because the time loop is treated as an emotional burden rather than merely a gameplay gimmick. Siffrin remembers conversations, mistakes, deaths, discoveries, and failed attempts, while everyone around them experiences each repeated moment as something completely new. At first, knowing what will happen can feel like an advantage. Gradually, however, familiarity becomes exhausting. Repeated conversations that once se…

You don't need to play this to understand "In Stars and Time", but if you liked that game, you might like this. It is far shorter, but still enjoyable!

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Its great, short, but great.

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It's like someone rips your soul out of you, and then puts it back in you for two seconds, and then rips it out again