Back To The Future: The Game (Episode 2 of 5)

Title: Back To The Future: The Game (Episode 2 of 5) 

Platform Played On: iPad 

Release Date: April 20, 2011 

Date Played: September 2011 

Time Played: 1 hours 

Completed (Y/N): Yes

Score: 4/5 

Opinion:

Episode 2, as expected starts right where Episode 1 ended, it is however much shorter at about 1/3 of the length of the first episode. This is very strange considering the pricing on the episodes is identical.

The story in this second episode is not as good as the first; however the way this episode ends could mean that the 3rd is going to be the best one yet. It has a very exciting ending. We'll have to see how it goes, as I have yet to start it.

Episode 2 focuses mostly on Biff's ancestors and Marty's ancestors and the relationship between the two.

The graphics are still sub par on the iPad version, with even worse frame rate and general performance issues than the first episode.  There are parts where the scene will freeze completely, then unfreeze at a later time with voice overs stuttering and catching up.

There are a few repeat puzzles, which makes previously easy puzzles totally trivial and boring, and I am not sure if they were pushing the deadline, but towards the end of the episode there are a few parts where it will straight up teleport you from one location to the next without any explanation, and making very little sense.  And by teleport I dont mean that the game says "2 hours later" or anything of the like, nope. You are talking to a person, then screen goes black and you are in a completely different part of town about to do something that you were just talking about not doing. No explanation as to how exactly or why you are doing it all of a sudden.

All of the previous issues are still present, it is still easy to accidentally skip dialogue, there are still some puzzles which are not explained very well as to what you can or can not do within the puzzle. Thank god for the Hint option, although even that is useless at times.

Overall this is a less impressive episode than the first one; however there is still enough interesting things happening and overall story is interesting enough to where anyone interested in the series should play this episode before going on to number 3. Again I would recommend the Steam version as opposed to the iPad version because of the technical issues and inferior graphics on the iPad.