About This Game With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself!"A Wise Use of Time" is a thrilling 260,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Jim Dattilo, author of "Zombie Exodus," winner of the 2011 XYZZY "Special Recognition" award for interactive fiction. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.When you freeze time, no one can see you, hear you, or stop you, except, perhaps, a handful of mysterious time controllers like yourself. Every second you steal puts more stress on your body and mind.Will you bring justice to the mobsters who run rampant in your city? Will you steal from them to provide for those in need? Will you share your power with friends and family? Will you destroy your own powers, or will your powers destroy you first? Play as male or female; gay, straight, or bisexual. Develop relationships with one of four main romantic options (or a secret one). Track your relationships and moral stats as they change. Level up your time-control powers, or nullify them to protect yourself and others. 6d5b4406ea Title: A Wise Use of TimeGenre: Indie, RPGDeveloper:Choice of GamesPublisher:Choice of GamesRelease Date: 4 Sep, 2015 A Wise Use Of Time Activation Code [FULL] I know it's unfair to review a game that I've not even completed. Yes, I know I gave a thumbs down to it's previous game - Choice of robots - which will make me seem biased torwards text games. However, even though I gave a thumbs down to Choice of robots, I had some fun with it, and at least finished the game to the end.This title, "A Wise Use of Time", however, I cannot bring myself to even FINISHING it.The pacing... is slow. Oh my god is it slow. I appreciate the fact that it's trying to build itself up, but it managed to break my will to read another chapter.But really that's not the real problem I had with this game. I do not enjoy the fact that the choice of this game is mainly divided into 2 factor. "Good" or "Evil" - like the "Paragon" or "Renegade" system in Mass Effect. I personally hate this, because it over simplifies our emotion and desire. Previously in the "Choice of Robots", you had to choose what purpose you will give to your robot. Will it represent beauty and grace, or will it spread fear and overwhelming power? Or, will it act like a living human being, and become your friend? It was up to you. The world evolved around you, which is the sole purpose of a "text adventure" game.Here, it's not like that. Yes, it has many branching paths, but the main dilemma is "Will you, or will you not overuse your power to bend time for your own benifit? Consequences may happen." And this alone may be an interesting book or a conversation - but not a game, which is about the "game play". And it feels like the choices that this game presents are not intriguing enough for me to choose this game over a well written book.. Great story, looking forward to playing half a dozen more times. I would like to start out by saying that i enjoyed many of the "choice of game" novels in the past. Obviously to enjoy a text based choice novel you must be okay with reading walls of text. The choice that they offer in their novels is really top notch though. Small decisions effect paths you can take later down the road. It is well written and gramatical errors are very seldom and when they do occur do not detract from the overall meaning of the piece. I also like the very easy to read menues that allow you to keep track of relationship statuses/ attributes/ and even morality. My personal favorite "Choice of Game" project besides their "Choice of Robots" which was also stellar. The story is exeptional and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall i would easily recommend this to someone who enjoys text based, choose your own adventures. Choice of games has done exceptionally well again. Very cheap and offers high replay value. Gonna go dive back in. Great game!. an amazing game, well designed with none of the lazy "oh we did not think you would go this route so we kill you" tricks.. I typically enjoy CYOA games, but this one just wasn't for me. I forced myself to play to a conclusion, where I died, though I'm not really sure what I did wrong. The stat mechanics, though much more simplistic, weren't as intuitive to me as most Choice of Games titles are (Heroes Trilogy, Hero of Kendrickstone, SLAMMED!); sometimes you can use your powers with no or very little ill effects, others you'll do something that seems much simpler and generate a huge amount of fatigue. I basically focused on the powers all the way through, learning more about them and trying to get better at them without overusing them, but I suppose it's possible I was too cautious.Though I never attempted any of the romance options, I suspect there's likely a lot of content there as is typical of CoG games. Overall, if you're REALLY itching for a CoG style CYOA, this is pretty inexpensive and you might like it, but as for me, I'd say to give this one a pass.. Choice of Games is always good.I've played most of their storiesand I needed a new oneSo I recommend this.Great storyEmotional towards the character.Overall GREAT STORY can't wait for their new book.. Choice of Games consistently makes treats like this. I'm afraid I might grow fat.. I personally loved this game, every choice and action I took felt like it had some long term meaning. Interesting romance system that I still haven't fully explored after several playthroughs. I would reccomend this game, especially while its on sale, to anyone with the patience to read pages of text. 8/10 as far as text based CYOA games go.
- tearpaulalormo