It's Killing Time

I wasn't expecting much from 'It's Killing Time' due to the 'Mixed' review score, but I picked it up in a mini-bundle from 'Choice of Games,' a publisher who I really like. I've played maybe a dozen or so of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' games and really like them. I've mostly gravitated towards the highly reviewed ones though, so when I decided to play this one I expected to 'kill' some 'time' and that's about it. Wrong! I really enjoyed 'It's Killing Time' actually. I played through twice, once as a 'good' guy and once as a 'bad' guy. You play as a contract killer embroiled in a deadly conspiracy of murder and deception, all the while trying to maintain a successful dossier of contracts. The thing I liked most about this 'game' was that I was not being punished because I did not stack the correct 'talent.' You can be deadly, cunning, or intelligent and it will serve you well and not gate you off from succeeding. Many of the CYOA games have a point in the game where you were supposed to have built up a specific attribute that will be used at a crucial point in the story and if you didn't randomly choose the right one you fail. It's essentially the death of the 'choice' aspec…

This was not the kind of game I was expecting. It's very much focused on your "family" of assassins and your connections to them. You're trying to solve a mystery, but you're forced to go on these assignments that have nothing to do with what's going on. Pros: -Story was long enough. -Opportunities to increase your stats, more often than similar games. -There was one interesting fight, but I don't want to give spoilers. You can choose to romance this person as well, which I thought was pretty cool and went well with my character. -The reason 'why' part of the mystery was a twist I wasn't expecting. But the 'how' I saw coming a mile away. Neutral: -Tries really hard to give you romance options. -What you did will give you the ending of the story, don't have the option to choose. -Ending will take into account reputation, fame, money, character fates. -Secrets and hidden achievements. Cons: -The writing is pretty bad, I found alot of it silly and ridiculous. -Alot of the time the game ignores your abilities and decisions. A scene just plays out with you dropping bodies like you're a super assassin. You always accomplish your mission. -Spend alot of time hanging out with yo…

For a "Choice of" strory, the game is kinda underwhelming. It's more of a combination game (find what works best for which achievement) than a truly role-playing game. And it's short. Basically, it is well made, but I so not recommend it. There are better games from the same publisher out there.

I rate the game It's Killing Time 3/5. It's okay i guess. Mediocre. I can only barely recommend this game and mostly only because it's fairly cheap. This is another one of those choose-your-own-adventure type text-based games in the same basic style (but not of the same quality) as Choice of Robots, Choice of Alexandria or Champion of the Gods. It features the same huge flaw; the inability to simply turn the page back to a previous choice or a previous page. I have to admit though, on my first play through I was very impressed with this game. It's campy and silly and purposefully cliched in many of the right ways. The descriptions are good and visceral but the writing style never takes itself seriously as it is continually heavy-handed. In a way, this is a very well-done parody of those dime-a-dozen thriller novels featuring assassins and murder-for-hire secret organizations and so forth. The choices seem interesting and it feels as though each choice may be very important and could potentially lead to a very different conclusion. Unfortunately any sense of choice this game provides is largely an illusion. I started to see some serious draw-backs to this game during my second an…

Another really fun choice of games game. If you like them this is one of the them to get. Pretty decent all around, maybe a bit expensive but id reccomends

This game is bad yo. Choice of Games usually runs from OK to Pretty Damn Good, and this was...I wanna say, embarrassingly bad?