Yesterday Origins
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| Yesterday Origins | |
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 European cover for the computer version | |
| Developer | Pendulo Studios |
| Publisher | Microïds |
| Director | Ramón Hernáez |
| Writers | Ramón Hernáez, Josué Monchán |
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| Release | |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Mode | Single-player |
Yesterday Origins is a 2016 graphic adventure game developed by the Spanish company Pendulo Studios and published by Microïds. Both a prequel and a sequel to Pendulo's earlier Yesterday, the game follows protagonists John Yesterday and his girlfriend Pauline as they try to unravel the mystery of John's immortality. The player takes control of John and Pauline and explores the game world, solves puzzles, collects items and converses with non-player characters.
Yesterday Origins began development in November 2014. It was the first new title that Pendulo had embarked on since 2012, when financial problems had forced the company to restructure.
Reviews for Yesterday Origins were generally mixed, according to Metacritic, although its release for Xbox One won positive reviews and was among the highest-scoring Spanish-made games on the website by 2017.
Yesterday Origins is a graphic adventure game.
Plot
Yesterday Origins focuses on both the events that occurred centuries ago when John Yesterday became an immortal and the present timeline after the first game.
Having been caught by the Spanish Inquisition, John escapes with the help of Father Ginés. Ginés takes Yesterday to a noble estate, where he translates the Book of the Flesh in order to create the potion of immortality. When Ginés asks John to torture a child for the entertainment of the call, John refuses and helps him escape.
In the present day, John and his girlfriend Pauline sell a huge Japanese sculpture to Baxter, an eccentric millionaire heiress. While meeting her, John finds a book with the tattoo of the Book of the Flesh and tracks it to the author in New York. When leaving New York, John is kidnapped by Baxter's head of security and taken back to France, where he meets father Ginés, now old and decrepit, who only lives two or three weeks before dying and returning as a frail old man. Ginés begs John to read the book again to find a potion to reverse immortality. Baxter interrupts the process, planning to take the potion herself to become immortal.
However, as shown in a flashback, Pauline had swapped out the coin of judgment, one of the central ingredients. After being forced to drink the potion and being murdered, Pauline returns to life and Baxter commits suicide, not realizing Pauline was already immortal.
Yesterday reads the Book of the Flesh again, and realizes he's been immortal even before he met Ginés, instead returning as a child rather than an adult. After making the reversal potion, Ginés shoots John and then commits suicide. Pauline briefly considers drinking the potion as well, before John reappears as a baby.
