I can more or less visualize how the whole time-rewind thing will work from my imagination and the description given in the review. You need to get through a gap, so you push a block that's not effected into a pit to activate a bridge, and then rewind to where you're back up by the gap, only now it's bridged. And, as has been said on here, like all other time travel games it cretinously limits this ability so it's entirely possible to trap yourself and have to start the level all over again now you've figured it out.

Which, to my mind, is a bit wrong. If you can rewind time at all, you shouldn't have to completely rewind it (which is to say, restart) once you've figured the level out. You should be able to jump back as needed to adjust any things you've positioned so it all works.

Anyone who's played EXiT knows what I mean - each level you blunder through at first, with only the minimap to give you a rough idea of where you should start. You might be lucky and manage it anyway, or you might get halfway through before finding you should have used that item elsewhere and so restart the level now forewarned and ready to do it perfectly*. If we're to be given a rewind function, surely it should allow us to eliminate that altogether, as opposed to just having it as a device for solving a few puzzles?

*this is without even touching the complaint that is levelled at so many quicksavey/checkpointy FPS games. The player just dies, often with little warning, until eventually they've memorised the level, and then have (from the enemy's point of view) prescience as they blast through each ambush, avoid each trap and are ready on the trigger to fire first in every situation. People might groan at Halo for such things, but remember Goldeneye and Perfect Dark? Your health didn't regenerate. And there were no checkpoints. You had to both learn the level perfectly AND execute it perfectly. You might make a stupid mistake and lose 75% of your health in the first 30 seconds. Or you might go perfectly all the way through and then die stupidly at the end, and tear the cartridge out of the console and hurl it as hard as possible against the cushions of the sofa (so as to take out your frustrations but without actually breaking anything)

I agree with Lave.

And so despite being 2008 there is still room for one persons vision to be a game. And frankly, It's glorious that something like this can get made and released.

It's a 2D platformer thats removed all grind and filler

Well I think a lot of you are miserly old curmudgeons.

Yes it did get an over excited review by Dan 'clearly worst at eurogamer' whathismaface,, but that doesn't mean it's shit - it means Dan is. And yes the story does smack a little bit of A-level creative writing. But that's (somewhat depressingly) a step forward for 'puter games - so the efforts commendable at least.

There is a damn, damn good game there. And whilst I won't fully recommend it till I've finished it in case it all goes pear shaped, it so far seems worth every penny.

It's a 2D platformer thats removed all grind and filler, and tried something new (or at least pretty fucking rare), and is painted, and isn't about brown or about Burley Space Men (TM). It's a game made by one man (and an artist).

And so despite being 2008 there is still room for one persons vision to be a game. And frankly, It's glorious that something like this can get made and released.

Also - the guy fought microsoft until they took out all the splash screens, so it just boots straight into the game.

Well nearly, actually it boots up to a point a mile and half from the game and you have to run to the game. It actually takes longer from "first thing on screen" to start a game of Braid than a game of Geo Wars 2.

First Bit: Or on the flipside better than many, many £40 games.

Only the first time you play it. Once you've started on the worlds every time you load it it drops you straight into the house.

And to be pendantic you were in control, and playing, I thought it was a wonderful opening, but yeah would become very boring if you had to walk it every time.

And it's the first game that makes me really, really jealous of people with Ginormous HDTVs.

Gears of War isn't an FPS.

Dudley, I think your point about Rez isn't really applicable when you consider Rez had already had a run at retail and this was just a tweaked re-release. The same applies to all the other games you mention. Even Carcassonne has had profits from its physical version. It's only appropriate to compare to other original games that been released for XBLA. I still think you're missing the point with the games you can buy much later for £10. You have to wait quite a long time for these games to come down in price. In the end, it's still not a huge amount of money for an original new game.

There was also a Manic Miner level, which isn't a bad thing, but it's also another "not really original" thing about it.

on world 4, the hunt, is it just the order in which you hit all the enemies on the head or is there another tact?