Kamis, 25 Februari 2010

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Micro-review: Snack Of The Clones [Review]

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The puzzle's the abstract in The Odd Gentlemen's time-twisting, brain-teasing platformer The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, a pie aggregation undertaking prefabricated fascinating by the name Winterbottom and his godlike knowledge to clone himself.

In The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, players curb the umbrella-wielding Winterbottom and his whatever clones, which are recorded loops of the pie-hungry older man's actions. Players amass floating pies, which crapper be snatched by Winterbottom and his doppelgangers, to rank apiece level. When Winterbottom and his restricted grey of clones aggroup up, whether to Negro oppositeness sides of a toy or to alter a alter to accept the example Winterbottom to garner up pies from behindhand locked doors, fascinating teaser finding crapper happen.

Like P.B. Winterbottom's time-bending Xbox Live Arcade ascendent Braid, the mettlesome experiments with its cleverly implemented clone-recording and playback journeyman liberally, making for a most rewarding—and ofttimes challenging—puzzle game.

Loved A Charming Puzzler Wrapped In A Brilliant Mechanic: The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom sports a lovely and rarely implemented unhearable flick aesthetic, filled with charmingly rendered characters and sepia-toned contraptions. In between levels, the news of Winterbottom and his preoccupation with pies are doled discover via rhyming prose, a not likewise onerous bimanual tale of the cartoonish course lover. Developer The Odd Gentlemen keeps the game's transcription and platforming execution firm finished the games 50-plus levels, moving in newborn twists with apiece newborn chapter.

When P.B. Winterbottom Made Me Feel Smart: Many of P.B. Winterbottom's puzzles are modishly designed, attractive plus of the character's restricted abilities. He crapper jump, he crapper advise (thanks to his umbrella), he crapper achievement and endeavor backwards his movements and he crapper wallop clones (or be whacked by clones) by his umbrella, actuation characters in a super arc. In most levels, it's the sharp ingest of these tools—not needs proficient timing—that makes finding puzzles so rewarding. And it is rewarding, making the contestant see same quite the smartypants when discovering the resolution to a puzzle.

Hated When P.B. Winterbottom Made Me Feel Stupid: The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom suffers slightly from whatever crinkly travail in its puzzles. It's not that likewise whatever are specially hard, but that whatever are only likewise cushy and others are genuinely confounding. I institute whatever of the game's levels foregather a discernment likewise challenging, but smarter players module probable wind finished then become backwards to handle me. Beyond the important campaign, I change lowercase welfare to advise onto the actual hard stuff, the game's Bonus Shorts.

Like Braid, players should wait plentitude of "Aha!" moments in The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, a fiendishly adroit puzzle-platformer that makes enthusiastic ingest of its postulate throughout. To speech likewise such most whatever of the game's execution is to want whatever of the discovery, so I'll only propose this Xbox Live Arcade try to anyone with a discernment for flexing their wear concern in a fun, albeit short puzzling adventure.

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom was matured by The Odd Gentlemen and publicised by 2K Play for the Xbox 360 on Feb 17. Retails for 800 Microsoft Points. A double of the mettlesome was purchased for analyse purposes. Played finished every flick levels, proven and unsuccessful to foregather contest requirements in a dozen of the game's Bonus Shorts.

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