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Old Skies review
Acclaimed point-and-click studio Wadjet Eye's gently paced, time-travelling genre-hopper blends elegant puzzling and in…
There's romance, mystery, farce, intrigue, subterfuge, and even a spot of murder as Old Skies gamely leaps between genres - often multiple times within each tale - and Fia hurtles through New York's history, each era brought to life by a wonderful jazz noir soundtrack, and some beautifully evocative art. Even the specific time periods Fia visits aren't especially critical to the narrative beyond their basic chronology (aside from perhaps the symbolism of its Twin Towers segment, an affecting chapter handled with tenderness and tact), merely serving as evocative background texture for its diverse selection of tales. It's beautifully written, intricately structured, and shows real elegance of design; that it does all this while turning its existentially bleak, high concept premise into a gorgeous, deeply human, and surprisingly moving tale of love, loss, and the legacies we leave is all the more impressive.
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