“Explaining the Epic Story of Quantum Break”

Beware, 2022 is the end of times and the world‼️

The Chronon (the unit of time energy) will run out, so time will stop and we’ll be stuck in one moment forever.

Imagine your life turning into just one moment, repeating over and over. Surely, that’s not something any of us want. But according to the game Quantum Break, that’s exactly what will happen 😰. That’s why we need to go on an adventure with our hero Jack Joyce to figure out how time works.

Whether you’re a fan of time travel stories or not, take a deep breath and focus on what’s to come.

The moment I learned that Quantum Break was about time travel, my eyes lit up and I started paying attention to it. But I was also cautious because most stories of this kind have plot holes and stray far from the fundamentals of physics. But surprisingly, the opposite happened with the story of Quantum Break.

Spoiler alert ahead, be careful ‼️

The game starts with our hero Jack Joyce helping his friend Paul Serene conduct the first successful test of a time machine, sending them five minutes back in time. Paul goes to enter and finds his exact replica from the past appearing 😯. Of course, Jack, not being very knowledgeable about physics, is confused by what he’s seeing, but both Pauls are happy with the success of the experiment. The past version of Paul tells the present version to step into the machine to avoid altering the timeline.

Jack, still shocked, is told to set the machine five minutes into the future. When the machine activates toward the future, Jack’s brother (Will) suddenly appears, and that’s when everything goes wrong.

An explosion causes the timeline inside the machine to fracture, throwing Jack and Paul into broken timelines, with both gaining supernatural powers over time due to the Chronon energy entering their bodies. But the bigger problem is that this causes a fracture in time, leading to the world’s inevitable collapse.

There are a lot of twists, but let’s focus on the part of the story about time travel. Paul’s plan is to create a safe zone to protect people from the collapse of time, but Will (Jack’s brother) wants to stop the collapse altogether using a device called the Countermeasure. Jack, on the other hand, wants to go back in time and prevent all of this from happening to save his brother.

The interesting part here is that Jack doesn’t know how time travel works or what its rules are. Throughout the game, Jack discovers that no matter how hard he tries to fix the past, it fails. What’s happened has already happened. He can’t change the past. Jack is only able to travel through time because a series of events allowed him to be in the same places at the same times as he was in the past, which is essentially a time loop.

Near the end of the game, Jack returns to the past with the Countermeasure to give it to Will, telling him nothing will happen in his timeline because the past is fixed… but what about the future? The future can be changed. They travel to the future after the lab incident crisis, activate the machine, and successfully repair time.

Many movies are obsessed with the idea of changing the past. You might say, “But the movie Avengers: Endgame did the same thing,” but Quantum Break came out in 2016, five years before the movie. Historically, most films have done the same thing; for example, in the Terminator series, Sarah Connor or John Connor always tried to change the past to prevent the robo-apocalypse. But logically, that doesn’t make sense because if you could change the past, you wouldn’t even be able to go back to it in the first place, right?

And that’s why many films are full of plot holes.

The ending of Quantum Break was brilliant when Jack realized that everything he did only created the past that he was always part of. Even when he succeeded in saving his brother’s life, it was because his brother hadn’t actually died in the present at the start of the game, as he had believed.

One of the coolest things about the game is that you get to make choices, but even though these choices give the illusion of changing the story, the ending is the same. Some reviewers who didn’t understand the game wrongly criticized it for having no impactful choices. It’s funny because they didn’t get the game but still wrote reviews about it.

Quantum Break’s story is, at the very least, beautiful and managed to present a time travel narrative that was accurate, unlike many films.

Who wants to go back and replay the game now like ❤️? But don’t worry, the game predicted the world’s end to happen in January this year, and now we’re already in July, so don’t worry 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the read ❤️