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Time Hollow joins the point and click adventure lineup on the DS, putting the player in the shoes of Ethan Kairos who wields the power to change the past. Despite some cool ideas and a fairly interesting narrative, this time traveling mystery adventure falls flat.

When Ethan Kairos wakes up on his 17th birthday, he finds that his parents have mysteriously disappeared and he is left living with his uncle Derek. His parents have apparently been missing for 12 years despite Ethan's memories of them. The mystery thickens when Ethan finds a pen that allows him to draw holes in time, reaching into the past to alter the present. As he tries to make sense of his present, Ethan fixes the past to prevent disasters from hurting his friends and family. The game provides a heaping helping of plot, and while it tries to gradually introduce each idea, time travel cannot help but raise a few complications. Not surprisingly, there are a few time parodoxes present and sometimes the game's own time travel...

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