Be Excellent To Each Other

First Things first.

New Trailer.

Looks pretty exciting.



Here's the facts:



It looks like it is the kind of game I would like to play.

Dev's site here.

That looks really good. What platform are we expecting this on?

It hasnt been confirmed for xbla yet but there have been screenshots with a little green 'a' button in them which I think is at least a reason to be hopeful.

Looks good, hope it does reach the 360, for 800punts.

Mention of Echochrome has alarm bells ringing, because Echochrome was shit.

Wasn't it, though? Mind you the idea was a nifty one, but the execution was lacking. So we'll see.

That looks beautiful. Hope it play as well as it looks.

Want this hard.

Please be good.
Please be on XBLA (where it will inevitably be 1200 - the dicks).
Actually please be on WiiWare so I get a decent dpad and point at screen 3D stuff.


V. V. V. Hopeful.

I think the only criticism I can give it so far is that the map is quite hard to fathom.

Yeah, I that's my only criticism, also I wish the map told you which door leads to which area as it's quite frustrating looking through 5 or 6 doors looking for the one you want. I've completed it once so far, it seemed I wasn't getting much further and thought I might get something if I went into the door which needs 32 cubes,

Also it crashes a fair bit, it's happened about 4 times to me already.

Minor spoiler. You'll have seen it if you've got to the bit where you can start to change perspective. So 5 minutes into the game.

Anybody know what to do with the large doors with the knobly stack of cubes on? I've found one in the sewer and another on the mine entrance/large waterfall node and can't figure them out.

Anyone know if it's possible to pick a fucking crate up? Seeing as I can't push it onto a button. It annoyed me so I left it behind, but it occurs to me that the little cunt is holding a crate aloft in the image in the OP of this thread.

X. only small ones, though.

Wha?! X just pushed it! (Do you know the one I mean? Early on, button wouldn't push because you're not heavy enough, etc. Is that a small crate?)

X picks them up. If you move too close to it he'll start pushing.

The vibrating tuning forks are the best use of the vibration feature I've seen in a game this gen. mazin

Hmm. The secrets rely heavily on a QR code reader. Fuck you if you haven't got a smart phone, natch.

So is that what the treasure maps are?

Nope.

Aha! Cheers!

That fucking cube floating near me during puzzle sections is infuriating.

Specifically this Tetris puzzle thing. Four blocks, I assume you have to position them like Tetris shapes as indicated, and I know how to do it, but I can't do it! Arrrgh!!

Fucking bastard I had it! But he threw the block like a fucking spaz and now it's fucked up. Fucking fucking cunt!

That'd make a good screenshot caption.

To a photo of a man with cackhands?

Done it! That was a right fucker! What a puzzle though! This is awesome.

This is the Super Mario Galaxy of XBLA games. Seemingly endless supply of levels, puzzles asking new things of you all the time. Brilliant.

mazin music spotlight node is mazin.

Fuckin mazin game. Utterly bewitching and enchanting. Finished my first playthough, now NG+

With regards to finishing the game:

edit: Dimrill posted at the same time as me! You can help answer my spoilered questions 'n'all.

You need powers in only available in NG+ to collect everything.

Aha! But does it make you start from scratch or does what you've previously collected remain?

Remain collected.

Sweet. I'll plough on later, then.

I think... I think I utterly adore this game. I haven't been this smitten for ages.

It's bloody good isn't it? That bell tower puzzle - I spent 10 minutes just ringing the bell for fun because it sounded so awesome.

One cube left. Just have to wait four hours for the clock hand to advance.

Now I have a sad that I'll never be able to play that for the first time again

It's the best thing I've played (arcade wise) for a long time.

Utterly lovely.

The game is like a beautiful onion, but instead of crying as you peel it, you smile.

Getting tempted now.

Given my reduced amount of available gaming time at present, I'm becoming a fan of the XBLA more and more for pick and play joy.

Played a chunk of this so far. It's lovely -- charming and witty and clever. I've found about 10 cubes and two anticubes so far, and three treasure maps I can't make head nor tail of.

I'm thoroughly lost though -- I'm just wandering from screen to screen without much in the way of plan. I assume that's normal? I'm trying not to read anything about the game.

Yep. Just enjoy the romp. If you want to go and track down everything else, that's what New Game+ is for. Don't let it stop you from ending your first run through early, it just gets more magical that way.

Sounds like Dark Souls.

Not really, it's only one syllable for a start.

Am I the only one who is getting shocking performance out of this?

It was ok to start with, but it's getting progressively jerkier.

Nope. The very same happened to me.

It would stutter from time to time, usually when going through doors to another part of the level.

Started playing this yesterday and put a good few hours into it (I've got about 17 cubes or so and a few anti-cubes). The core game is fun and charming; but I'm starting to feel completely overwhelmed by it to the point that it's sapping my interest a bit. Every door you go into opens up umpteen other doors which open up umpteen other ones etc, so I'm now feeling like I'm just completely losing track of what's going on as the map multiplies out in front of me. The fact that everything just feels like it's obtuse for the sake of it (the arrangement of the warp gates don't make any fucking sense at all, the map is odd, the secret levels with the movable blocks are completely inexplicable, the treasure maps don't mean anything and there are other random shit around the place that seem to almost revel in their utter lack of context) isn't helping matter much. I'm aware from reviews that it's supposed to be pretty meaningless at first and come together as you play, which is fine, but the sheer amount of randomness and the scope of it's getting on top of me a bit. It's probably not helping that I finished my session yesterday in the depths of the sewer type levels all of which are drably horrible to look at and centred round that really annoying game mechanic of raising/lowering water all over the place. So, yeah, can I expect it to start making some more sense soon? Or am I basically just too dim to enjoy it properly?

On the upside, I'm very amused by the QR codes puzzles; that's certainly a unique game mechanic.

Got up to about 23 cubes and a couple of anti-cubes and now my fucking save game has corrupted so the Xbox just crashes when I try to load it up. I assume there's nothing I can do about that and I'm just screwed? I couldn't really face going back through the whole thing again so that'll be it done in a really disappointing way.

Sounds like you've encountered the bug that they were unable to fix because Microscrofula demanded tens of thousands of dorrah to re-certify. Pity you didn't enjoy it. It was my joint game of the year with AssCreeThree.