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Just completed my second playthrough of Timespinner (on Steam and GOG and consoles), which came pretty much immediately after the first playthrough.
It is a Metroidvania game, which takes place in a sort of fantasy/science fiction hybrid setting (though mostly fantasy-ish, I'd say). You play as Lunais, a girl who has been trained to be a Time Messenger, someone whose job is to go back in time to warn their clan of nomads of impending danger (when said danger would have been otherwise fatal to the clan). At the start of the game, the clan is attacked by the emperor of Lachiem, a star spanning empire, and Lunais is accidentally transported to their homeworld, when the operation of the titular Timespinner is interfered with. Eventually, she gains the ability to travel back and forth between two different time periods at will, on her quest to avenge her clan... or prevent them from ever being in danger in the first place. And as the story goes on, she finds out that things are more complicated than she thought at first.
So yeah, it's a pretty awesome game, I have to say. SNES style graphics, modern music appropriate to the setting, and the gameplay is pretty tight. I'd say that it is easily as good as Bloodstained or any of the IGAvania games (though you're not going to be getting souls/glyphs/shards/whatever from every single enemy in this game like you do in the later of those). I didn't run into any bugs, either, which is nice, for a change. As I said, I just completed a second playthrough, on Nightmare difficulty, in which enemies just hit way harder is all, and aren't really that much more difficult to kill, other than that, but then I was at like level 85 or some such by the end of the normal playthrough anyway, mainly because I went through the optional, randomized dungeon that opens up at the very end of the game several times before actually finishing the normal playthrough. (I'm not touching the "Nightmare, locked at level 1" option, though.) Also got all the Steam achievements, if anyone cares about that sort of thing, though I'd have never gotten at least one of them if I hadn't simply looked up how to get it.
There are four endings total, three of which you can get on the first, pre-new game plus playthrough, but to get the last requires another playthrough on new game-plus, since you have to make a choice at some point between one of two options. I saved the option that I felt would change the timeline the most for the new game plus playthrough, and I think that was a good decision.
In any case, I will be very interested in any potential sequel to this game (or perhaps another, separate, but similar game made by the same people).
Also, the game is very LGBTQ+ friendly, which, of course, obviously, has a bunch of homophobic/transphobic fucktards in the Steam forums and elsewhere whining about "SJW agenda" and such bullshit. Basically, according to them, "gaem has too much ghey therefore bad gaem." You know, like how it usually is with those dipshits.
Obligatory TVTropes link, though I'd recommend not looking at that until after playing the game itself.
It is a Metroidvania game, which takes place in a sort of fantasy/science fiction hybrid setting (though mostly fantasy-ish, I'd say). You play as Lunais, a girl who has been trained to be a Time Messenger, someone whose job is to go back in time to warn their clan of nomads of impending danger (when said danger would have been otherwise fatal to the clan). At the start of the game, the clan is attacked by the emperor of Lachiem, a star spanning empire, and Lunais is accidentally transported to their homeworld, when the operation of the titular Timespinner is interfered with. Eventually, she gains the ability to travel back and forth between two different time periods at will, on her quest to avenge her clan... or prevent them from ever being in danger in the first place. And as the story goes on, she finds out that things are more complicated than she thought at first.
So yeah, it's a pretty awesome game, I have to say. SNES style graphics, modern music appropriate to the setting, and the gameplay is pretty tight. I'd say that it is easily as good as Bloodstained or any of the IGAvania games (though you're not going to be getting souls/glyphs/shards/whatever from every single enemy in this game like you do in the later of those). I didn't run into any bugs, either, which is nice, for a change. As I said, I just completed a second playthrough, on Nightmare difficulty, in which enemies just hit way harder is all, and aren't really that much more difficult to kill, other than that, but then I was at like level 85 or some such by the end of the normal playthrough anyway, mainly because I went through the optional, randomized dungeon that opens up at the very end of the game several times before actually finishing the normal playthrough. (I'm not touching the "Nightmare, locked at level 1" option, though.) Also got all the Steam achievements, if anyone cares about that sort of thing, though I'd have never gotten at least one of them if I hadn't simply looked up how to get it.
There are four endings total, three of which you can get on the first, pre-new game plus playthrough, but to get the last requires another playthrough on new game-plus, since you have to make a choice at some point between one of two options. I saved the option that I felt would change the timeline the most for the new game plus playthrough, and I think that was a good decision.
In any case, I will be very interested in any potential sequel to this game (or perhaps another, separate, but similar game made by the same people).
Also, the game is very LGBTQ+ friendly, which, of course, obviously, has a bunch of homophobic/transphobic fucktards in the Steam forums and elsewhere whining about "SJW agenda" and such bullshit. Basically, according to them, "gaem has too much ghey therefore bad gaem." You know, like how it usually is with those dipshits.
Obligatory TVTropes link, though I'd recommend not looking at that until after playing the game itself.
