Time Twist: Rekishi no Katasumi de...

About

Time Twist: Rekishi no Katasumi de... is a text-driven adventure built around branching choices and time travel. Players follow a boy whose encounter with a mysterious girl at a museum spirals into a supernatural chase after an ancient demon. The story splits across two physical disks, with the second locked until the first is completed. Dialogue options shape outcomes as you jump between timelines, figuring out how a cursed artifact and a stolen time machine trap souls in a loop of cause and effect. A relic of early 90s Japanese gaming, this one never left Japan and remains a niche curiosity. Its mix of folklore, sci-fi, and serialized storytelling feels oddly ahead of its time for a Famicom Disk System title. Fans of narrative experimentation might notice its influence on later visual novels, though its dated presentation and strict disk-based structure make it a challenge to access today.

Storyline

The year is 1995, and the impending turn of the 20th century is instilling fear and uncertainty in mankind, and fortune telling shows have become popular. On September 25, 1995, a young boy living in Tokyo hears on a fortune telling show that he will meet the girl of his dreams in a museum located outside the city limits. He visits the "Devil Museum" and meets a girl inside, but a sudden earthquake cuts their meeting short. The boy recites the incantation from the fortune-telling show said to "capture the heart of the girl of his dreams", but the incantation destroys the seal on a vase containing the devil. The reanimated devil takes control of the boy's body, leaving the boy trapped in the devil's decaying body. He chases the devil to the house of Dr. Simon, a physics scientist hiding from the media. The devil has stolen the scientist's time machine called the "Time Belt" and uses it to travel back in time. The young boy's soul is also pulled back into the past by the Time Belt.