Few games are bold enough to require co-op. Fewer still go as far as to obscure an entire half of the game from the other player, meaning the two people playing need to constantly communicate in order to grasp what’s going on. The Past Within is one of these games. It separates two players across two timelines, one in the future, one in the past, then presents them with a series of puzzles they cannot solve without clues from the other person’s present. Only when solved, will the shared story move on.
The Past Within’s fundamental use of two players means it’s a game someone cannot review alone, so we didn’t try to. Instead, Matt Wales and Victoria Kennedy paired up and here, collectively, in dialogue format, is what they think.
Matt: Hi Victoria! What can you see?
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