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Unusual and evocative visuals.Ĭons: There’s a bit too much switch-flipping and box-pushing for such an otherwise imaginative game. Nuanced storytelling and impressively thick atmosphere. English: The Swapper is a puzzle platform video game released in 2013 by Facepalm Games. Pros: The swapper itself is a great idea and is very easy to control. In Short: One of the best action puzzlers for several years, made all the better by some surprisingly distinctive storytelling and visuals. And although there are obvious influences from games as varied as Metroid and Braid the truth is that The Swapper, somewhat ironically, is nowhere close to being a clone of anything. A concept that it should be easy to forget given the abstract nature of the gameplay, but which thanks to the unfurling plot is increasingly given centre stage.īy the end the game’s philosophising leaves an unexpectedly deep mark, despite an ending that many will find unsatisfying. Surprisingly for a puzzle game though it’s the story that manages to smooth over any such concerns, with its melancholic attitude never missing an opportunity to remind that, clone or not, these are real people you’re constantly creating and destroying. Developer Facepalm Games are sensible enough not to over-egg their pudding, although the flip side of this is that there is a little too much reliance on switch-pressing puzzles and other contrivances that become more predictable as the game progresses.
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PS Vita: One time license fee entitles play on up to 3. As long as you have line of sight you can switch control between any one of them, discarding those that are no longer useful and creating new ones in a combo chain of doppelgangers.Īs you progress additional complications are added, primarily coloured areas that limit the abilities of the swapper and a some VVVVVV style gravity flipping. PS3: One time license fee entitles play on up to 2 PlayStation 3 systems activated by this account. The device can create up to four copies of yourself, who all move and act in perfect tandem. Add the titular swapper to the mix – a device that allows you to create a clone of yourself and move your consciousness into it – and the game seems on paper to be nothing but a bad episode of (original series) Star Trek.īut as hokey as it sounds the story’s slow build-up and straight faced delivery works perfectly, as does the puzzle implications of the swapper. The set-up involves the loss of a number of remote mining facilities in deep space, and the discovery of what may or may not be indigenous telepathic lifeforms. As if Ridley Scott decided to film Alien as an existential nightmare rather than a physical one.
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Don’t let the low age rating or lack of violence fool you either: this is a disturbing and emotionally complex sci-fi adventure.
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