By Kieron Gillen on August 2nd, 2010 at 11:10 am.
Been meaning to play this for a while but finally – ahem – found time. Stream is basically a short-form Braid with a monochrome Flashback-esque aesthetic. The device being you can create a portal and send yourself back in time, leaving a ghost doing whatever you were doing. Use it to dodge guards, keep doors open and so on. It’s a lot fiddlier than Braid, which becomes an annoyance in the more complicated multi-stage puzzles, but it’s still well worth a shot. You can get it here and see some footage – in the form of a full spoiler-filled walkthrough – below…
That was not fun, much too fiddly, much too tedious. I think the 4:27 – 4.36 on the video shows the sort of stuttering crap that bothered me, you start respawning in your wormhole and then the game shrugs and kills you off.
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Agreed…I’m not entirely sure what it was about this game, but it didn’t seem to work. I mean at a mental level…or maybe I just didn’t get it…Either way…it’s gone now…
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Have you been digging through your Manic Street Preachers collection since failing to not mention the new Manics song yesterday, Kieron..?
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God damn it, now you’ve got me at it.
Archives of Payne. Nostalgic Shmuphead. New Starcraft Riot. Ifbobbykoticktoldthetruthforjustonedayhisworldwouldfallapart.
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MMmmmmmaybe.
KG
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I remember a rumour going round that they were going to call their greatest hits ‘A Scream to a Sigh’. But they didn’t.
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The P.B. Winterbottom game has some charm that this lacks, besides both been mostly the same gameplaywise
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