What is Your Favourite Back To The Future The Game Episode?
I was tied between Citizen Brown and Outatime for my favourite episode but i picked Citizen Brown because i liked the idea where theres a timeline that while it looks perfect it is really horrible and it turns out Doc has been well kind of brainwashed because Edna convinced him to make all these rules and turn Hill Valley into a police state and Marty is alone here. Jennifer thinks he is a nerd, his parents are fighting again, George is now a wimp again. Biff has now been brainwashed by Edna and Doc now thinks hill valley should be the way it is now until the next episode. Now some people might think that it should be Outatime because it had better puzzles than this episode but the story had me worrying about Marty and Hill Valley throughout this episode and i loved the cliffhanger at the end
where Marty & Doc is captured by Edna to be brainwashed
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Looking at it by the end of the game though I guess it has its merits; it's the only episode which doesn't take place in 1931 and being able to explore hill valley was nice. It definitely is the episode the most unlike the others. I don't know if that makes it better though.
Episode 4 was dark but there really wasn't anything great that made it stick out. I guess the escape from 1986 was fun as was the clocktower part at the end.
Episodes 2 and 5 were my favourite probably for the same reason part II is my favourite movie; those ones had the most time travel and time periods. If you count different timelines, episode 5 has FOUR different time periods shown. Also the flying delorean is awesome.
But didn't episode 2 have 4 timeline
Timeline 1= Artie is killed Marty starts to disapper from time
Timeline 2=Artie is saved and the Tannens take over Hill Valley
Timeline 3=Kid never went to jail 1931
Timeline 4= Young Doc becomes a hero and falls in love with Edna and Doc disappers leaving Marty trapped in the Citizen Brown ruled Hill Valley.
and with that said look at all the timelines in this game
Episode 1
Marty 1986 (First 1986)
Kid jailed 1931 (before Marty changed it to Tannen ruled timeline)
Doc killed after he is free
Doc killed after being taken by Kid during the night
Artie killed 1931
Episode 2
Artie killed
Tannen ruled
Kid never jailed 1931
Citizen brown Hill Valley
Episode 3
Citizen brown timeline
Episode 4
Citizen Brown Timeline
Doc & Edna in love 1931
Doc & Edna broken up and Doc back to science 1931
Episode 5
Doc Back to Science 1931
Hill Valley Gone Timeline
Back in the Old West Timeline
The Final Timeline
I was more talking about different timelines being shown, yes there are 3 or 4 different timelines in episode 2 but we basically only see 2 (its the same version of 1931 pretty much and the brief 1986). Also we barely see citizen brown hill valley this episode.
Also we are told a few things that are changed in the Tannen Not Jailed Timeline
1. Young Emmett never had the nerve to do science in the town
2. Jennifer and her father are never born because Danny's wife thinks he went crazy
depends on your interpretation on what constitutes a timeline; technically every time travel to the past creates a miltitude of timelines every time something is changed but the generally accepted interpretation is that each time travel creates only one more timeline. For instance we've seen through pictures and newspapers Marty and Arthur dying but they're not actually shown as a timeline So the game would have the following;
Eastwood timeline at the beginning
Tannen crime family timeline
FCB timeline
burnt hill valley timeline
final timeline
Because Marty was before the junction point. The junction point is an event that is needed for another event to happen. In BTTF1 the kiss at the dance was the junction point. Marty was fine until that event was about to not happen. Then he started to fade instantly. In episode 2 Marty had just passed the critical junction point insuring his own nonexistence which is why he instantly started to fade.
It's also unclear as to what the actual junction point is. Seems according to part I that the junction point is the main action that causes it but you could argue that the lack of george getting hit by sam or the actual conception of marty is the junction point.
But in arties case its not a simple action; he's beaten to death so it would have been a slow and painful death.
He probably died right that instant.
It's also time based.
there's no way they could have known time of death, especially with 1930's medical technology
I wasn't too sure what to make of episode 5 when it was released (and I just realized I never made a review of it on my site), but I came to enjoy it more when I replayed it (the ending was sort of too out-there for me at first, and kind of felt like a letdown, but I've come to accept it, if not really enjoy it). I'd have to say that episode 1, 3, and 5 would all get the highest rating for the series from me (3.5 out of 5, or a 7 out of 10), but episode 5 would probably be the one I enjoyed the most overall.
I agree about episode 4, the start and end were fairly good. It was midly fun sabotaging Emmett and Edna but it didnt really show us anything we hadn't seen yet.