History VideoGame / Jigsaw

* AuthorAppeal: The level of actual historical significance of certain ''cultural'' events, as opposed to scientific and military ones, is highly debatable. But the Enigma fragment is ''ridiculously'' detailed.

** ruin Fleming's experiments

** keep Music/TheBeatles from getting too irritated to rehearse

* EnemyMine: The player and Black aren't always on opposite sides.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: The player character.

* InstantExpert: You learn to play mandoline by doing it a couple of times, which takes minutes of game-time.

* IntangibleTimeTravel: The beginning of the Enigma chapter.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Black's mentor, the eccentric Hungarian (despite Slavic-sounding surname) inventor Kaldecki, who in no way resembles Nicola Tesla.

* TimeTravellersAreSpies: Both Black and the player in the Enigma chapter, and Black in the B-29 chapter.
* TrappedInThePast: The fate of [[spoiler: Black and White]] in the end.

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Black (and Black's late mentor) is less of a villain than a misguided idealist who is willing to use questionable means to achieve the desired ends.

* GenderNeutralWriting: In regards to both Black and the player, for the explicit purpose of [[DatingCatwoman hooking them up]] without implying anything about their respective genders and/or orientations. It's ''almost'' flawless.

It's a quarter to midnight on New Year's Eve, 1999, and you're at Century Park, avoiding the crowds that have gathered there to celebrate the incoming millennium. On a whim, you decide to follow a mysterious and attractive stranger... and wind up on a journey through time, collecting puzzle pieces and foiling the plans of an adversary who is trying to change the outcome of some of the most important events of the 20th century. Complicating matters further is the fact that this adversary is the very attractive stranger you encountered earlier...

** [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI assasinate archduke Ferdinand]]

* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: [[spoiler:This is the case with the Cold War episode. It starts with you and a thoroughly confused Black in a mysterious ''white'' space instead of a black one, hinting that ''you're'' the one influencing history this time. Your actions are already part of the timeline, and now you need to actually perform them or else the timeline will change. This enables the game to include a Prevent-World-War-Three episode without the meddling Black trying to cause it - Black wants to change history, not ''end'' it.]]

Despite the name, as far as we know it has no relation to the ''Saw'' Franchise.

* AuthorAppeal: The level of actual historical significance of certain ''cultural'' events, as opposed to scientific and military ones, is highly debatable and [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment we'll leave it at that]]. But the Enigma fragment is ''ridiculously'' detailed.

** save [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Lenin's]] life (which makes the world ''so'' much better)

* AuthorAppeal: The level of actual historical significance of certain ''cultural'' events, as opposed to scientific and military ones, is highly debatable and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment we'll leave it at that]]. But the Enigma fragment is ''ridiculously'' detailed.

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Black (and Black's late mentor) is less of a villain than a misguided idealist who is willing to use questionable means to achieve the desired ends.

* AltumVidetur: Latin quotations abound. For example, on the ormolu clock it says "tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis" [[labelnote:translation]]times change and we change with them[[/labelnote]], and Kaldecki's motto is "felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" [[labelnote:translation]]happy is he who can understand the causes of things[[/labelnote]].

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Nearly everything in the game if you aren't careful, including those vital [[BanjoKazooie jiggies]].

''Jigsaw'' is a work of InteractiveFiction by Graham Nelson and can be found [[http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=28uhmejlntcbccqm here]].

* AlternateHistory: [[spoiler:Black is implied to come from an alternate timeline where a number of things went worse than they did for us.]]

* ButterflyOfDoom

** Some of the puzzle solutions are a little... esoteric. Including one of the very first puzzles...

* UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic: The setting for one chapter - you end up sending the mayday.

* AuthorAppeal: The level of actual historical significance of certain ''cultural'' events, as opposed to scientific and military ones, is highly debatable and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment we'll leave it at that]].

* DatingCatwoman

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Black (and Black's late mentor) is less a villain than a misguided idealist who is willing to use questionable means to achieve the desired ends.

%%* ButterflyOfDoom
%%* DatingCatwoman
%%* EnemyMine: The player and Black aren't always on opposite sides.

%% ** Some of the puzzle solutions are a little... esoteric. Including one of the very first puzzles...

%%* TrappedInThePast
%%* UndercoverAsLovers: In the Suez Canal chapter.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: The player character.

* ButterflyOfDoom
* DatingCatwoman
* EnemyMine: The player and Black aren't always on opposite sides.

* GuideDangIt: Some of the puzzle solutions are a little... esoteric.
** Including one of the very first puzzles...
** Enigma. In RealLife, that took not one, but two bunches of ''very'' good mathematicians. Almost as difficult here.

* LostForever: Nearly everything in the game if you aren't careful, including those vital [[BanjoKazooie jiggies]].

* [[spoiler:TrappedInThePast]]
* UndercoverAsLovers: In the Suez Canal chapter.

* GenderNeutralWriting: In regards to both Black and the player, for the explicit purpose of [[DatingCatwoman hooking them up]] without implying anything about their respective genders and/or orientations.

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* {{AFGNCAAP}}: The player character.

* GenderNeutralWriting: In regards to both Black and the player.