VVVVVV is a clever little platform game that sucked me in as soon as I saw its retro Jet Set Willy style graphics and heard it's SID-chip tunage which warbled in the background.
The best way to describe the game would be to say it has the exploration of Jet Set Willy and say, Metroid, and the platforming functionality of Portal, but in 8-bit.
The map
Platform antics (each room has a name just like Willy's mansion used to have!)
Basically, your spaceship has crashed and things have gone a bit mental. 5 of your crew are missing, leaving you to explore the world in order to rescue them from each sector of puzzle platforming levels. There are also 20 collectibles called Trinkets scattered about the world for you to find. Each one of these Trinkets will have a more challenging room (see above - Trinket is purple pill-like thing in top left) for you to wrestle with before you can store it on your ship (the main hub) like a trophy.
The game is tricky, clever and sometimes frustrating. However, it has that "Just one more go" ingredient oozing from it.
Luckily, there are lots of checkpoints scattered throughout the world. In the main platforming levels, they're almost on every screen (again, see above pic - see the grey objects with the 'C's on them?). Also, you have unlimited lives.
There is a 'Stats' page in the pause menu giving you skill measuring information like 'Trinkets Found', 'Number of Deaths' and 'Time Taken'.
It's a perfect game to chill out to on your laptop.
The whole game is availabe to download for about £10 from theletterVsixtim.es
The game is crying out for a DS/PSP version. Hope that happens.
You can sample some of the main puzzle platform level bits in the online Flash demo here. The full game has an installation precedure, has some options, time trials, music to unlock and weighs in at a hefty 34MB.
EDGE have given it an 8. Review here.
The best way to describe the game would be to say it has the exploration of Jet Set Willy and say, Metroid, and the platforming functionality of Portal, but in 8-bit.
The map
Platform antics (each room has a name just like Willy's mansion used to have!)
Basically, your spaceship has crashed and things have gone a bit mental. 5 of your crew are missing, leaving you to explore the world in order to rescue them from each sector of puzzle platforming levels. There are also 20 collectibles called Trinkets scattered about the world for you to find. Each one of these Trinkets will have a more challenging room (see above - Trinket is purple pill-like thing in top left) for you to wrestle with before you can store it on your ship (the main hub) like a trophy.
The game is tricky, clever and sometimes frustrating. However, it has that "Just one more go" ingredient oozing from it.
Luckily, there are lots of checkpoints scattered throughout the world. In the main platforming levels, they're almost on every screen (again, see above pic - see the grey objects with the 'C's on them?). Also, you have unlimited lives.
There is a 'Stats' page in the pause menu giving you skill measuring information like 'Trinkets Found', 'Number of Deaths' and 'Time Taken'.
It's a perfect game to chill out to on your laptop.
The whole game is availabe to download for about £10 from theletterVsixtim.es
The game is crying out for a DS/PSP version. Hope that happens.
You can sample some of the main puzzle platform level bits in the online Flash demo here. The full game has an installation precedure, has some options, time trials, music to unlock and weighs in at a hefty 34MB.
EDGE have given it an 8. Review here.
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