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A Wild New Impostor Factory Trailer is Out

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Aug 052020

A new trailer is out now for Impostor Factory, the upcoming third game in the To the Moon series.

Since I loved both To the Moon and Finding Paradise, as well as the smaller games set in between, I’m looking forward to it quite a bit… especially to see the next step in the overarching story.

Impostor Factory was announced last year as “a time-resetting thriller-mystery that involves a series of bloody murders.”

If that description seems a little unusual for the next game in this series, like I mentioned at the time, then just wait until you see the new trailer.

What in the world just happened?

According to its official Steam page, the central character this time is a man named Quincy who goes to a mansion and finds a time machine, and then “things get a little Lovecraftian” (as we can see in the trailer). The description goes on to say “that’s around 1/3 of what the game is really about.”

The Steam page is coy about where exactly this falls in the timeline, saying it could be a sequel or maybe a prequel or maybe both, but that it can be played without knowledge of the others.

My current theory is that since Quincy is probably Neil and Eva’s new patient, his request will be to use a time machine. On the other hand, it could tie into the overarching story in some way.

What do you think is going on in this Impostor Factory trailer? We’ll find out before the end of the year, since it’s due out in late 2020!

Freebird Games Releases Paper Memories and Announces Impostor Factory

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Mar 082019

I love To the Moon, Finding Paradise, and the whole mysterious overarching story that’s been gradually building in their universe, so I was delighted to see that Freebird Games has two new announcements.

First, there is a collection of comics called “Paper Memories,” featuring characters from To the Moon and Finding Paradise. It is available on Steam as DLC for To the Moon or Finding Paradise, and physical copies are available to pre-order now.

According to the description, this comic collection includes over 50 pages of stories about the characters from these games, as well as bonus music tracks.

I’m definitely going to get and read Paper Memories, but the most exciting announcement is the reveal of the next game: Impostor Factory.

In my Finding Paradise review, I commented on the tease that their next game might involve lots of murder… and apparently that is true. Impostor Factory is “a time-resetting thriller-mystery that involves a series of bloody murders.”

That definitely sounds like quite a shift in tone, but I’m already excited for it.

Impostor Factory is set to launch in 2020. What do you hope to see from this new title from Freebird Games?

My Belated Finding Paradise Review

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Apr 202018

This review is an unusual one, because I thought I already reviewed Finding Paradise.

I named it as one of the best games I played in 2017 (and mentioned that my review would be coming soon), and I didn’t realize I never actually reviewed it until I went to look for my review last weekend and it… wasn’t there.

My guess is that I intended to review it right when my site went down, and by the time it was restored, I forgot. Anyway, let’s talk about Finding Paradise!

Finding Paradise is the sequel to To the Moon. Once again, Neil and Eva enter a dying patient’s memories to alter them in order to fulfill his final wish. The patient is the protagonist from A Bird Story, the shorter game set in between the two.

He presents them with a tricky task: he’d like them to resolve his lingering regrets while leaving as many of his memories unchanged as possible. Like in To the Moon, traveling through his memories lets the story of his life unfold, although this time Neil and Eva are sent back and forth between recent memories and old memories instead of following a linear path backwards.

For me, it wasn’t quite as emotional as To the Moon, but it was still a solid story. I also loved how it played with the series’ premise, leading to a beautiful and thought-provoking conclusion. And of course, there was plenty of humor.

I also went into Finding Paradise hoping for more of the overarching story that was hinted at in To the Moon and expanded on in the free mini-episodes. While Finding Paradise only touches on it lightly, it has a few mysterious events and some intriguing developments that advance it a little further.

Click for major Finding Paradise spoilers

In addition to the obvious scenes about Neil’s work, fans have speculated that the mysterious motorcycle rider (whose scene stands out for having no apparent significance to the plot) and the woman in the brown dress who (according to the child) retrieves the doll without touching the water is Faye.

Since Faye doesn’t exist in the real world and Neil copied her data, this once again suggests that Finding Paradise itself is a memory that someone is revisiting.

Finding Paradise also provides a list of the games in the series.

Since it lists To the Moon and Finding Paradise as the major episodes, with A Bird Story and the minisodes listed in between, I hope this means we’ll see more smaller entries before Episode 3.

Finding Paradise might not be as amazing as To the Moon, but it’s still an excellent game and I can’t wait to see where Freebird Games takes this series in the future. (It may or may not involve lots of murder?)

If you played Finding Paradise, what did you think of it? Where do you think the overarching story is headed?

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