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Dark_Garioshi
02/22/21 10:24:43 AM
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there's no time travel.

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WingsOfGood
02/22/21 10:29:59 AM
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So the person is just insane?
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MedeaLysistrata
02/22/21 10:30:42 AM
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time travel this, time travel that

what about space travel

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viewmaster_pi
02/22/21 10:31:05 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
So the person is just insane?
no, the whole city is just playing a trick on the main character for fun

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OudeGeuze
02/22/21 10:32:55 AM
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A time travel story where everyone but the protagonist time traveled

He/she wakes up one day and he is the only human actually from CURRENT YEAR. The rest of the world are the time travelers

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Accolon
02/22/21 10:34:29 AM
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A story where time is sentient and travels through people.

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Dark_Garioshi
02/22/21 10:36:08 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
So the person is just insane?
Could make a good story with an unreliable narrator tbh

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Raikuro
02/22/21 10:37:18 AM
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Kinda like that episode of arrested development where Buster tries to escape to Mexico but never actually leaves California and just thinks he's in Mexico?
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CyricZ
02/22/21 10:37:58 AM
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A video game did this exact thing last year.

That video game is 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.

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MrMallard
02/22/21 10:42:16 AM
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There's a DS game with that plot twist. Giving away the game/franchise would be a lame spoiler.

If you don't care, it's Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

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Questionmarktarius
02/22/21 10:44:04 AM
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Dark_Garioshi
02/22/21 10:48:48 AM
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MrMallard posted...
There's a DS game with that plot twist. Giving away the game/franchise would be a lame spoiler.

If you don't care, it's Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
but there is time travel in that game

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K181
02/22/21 10:52:17 AM
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Well, if you take the interpretation that the protagonist is an unreliable narrator and the time travel presented within is a representation of his dissociation with reality due to compounded traumas suffered in the course of his life, Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Jagr_68
02/22/21 10:55:09 AM
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12 Monkeys but the whole movie was a dream.

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InhumaneRaider
02/22/21 10:56:06 AM
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Accolon posted...
A story where time is sentient and travels through people.
You joke, but this actually sounds like a fucked up premise that could be good if handled properly.

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MrMallard
02/22/21 10:58:15 AM
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Dark_Garioshi posted...
but there is time travel in that game
At least you already know, lmao. It's at the very end of the game and the bulk of the time travel shenanigans in the game are fake. The actual time travel is just the cherry on top.

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Zanzenburger
02/22/21 10:58:50 AM
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This could also be done through a series of coincidences that makes the protagonist believe he time travelled, such as seeing a young kid who looks just like him and believing that's his younger self, or happening upon that one existing chain from his childhood that just happens to still be open, or going to a club with a specific theme of the decade he thinks he has travelled to.

So the protagonists causes mischief in the present thinking he's actually making changes in the past.

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eston
02/22/21 11:01:32 AM
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CyricZ posted...
A video game did this exact thing last year.

That video game is 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
I just read a plot synopsis and wtf

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CyricZ
02/22/21 11:04:54 AM
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eston posted...
I just read a plot synopsis and wtf
Oh bruh. Should have just played the game. It's awesome but it deals out its twists fairly regularly and I guess there's no point now. :)

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Dark_Garioshi
02/22/21 2:24:58 PM
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InhumaneRaider posted...
You joke, but this actually sounds like a fucked up premise that could be good if handled properly.
A horror movie where time ages whatever it touches into dust

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Trumble
02/22/21 2:27:45 PM
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Final Fantasy X sort of counts as this. Except that "it's not time travel" isn't fully slapped in the player's face, so a lot of people finish the game and still don't realise there was never any time travel involved.

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