

Rather than reacting instantly to stimuli, you actually have to elaborately plan and time-even think deeply-about your violence. If you think about it, in some ways it's more savage than using a weapon. For example, if you want to handle a prowling predator, your best bet would be to turn the screen at the proper time and watch in glee as a loose stone falls and shatters its skull. Your only defense against the brutal forces of nature is gravity combined with heavy objects. Unfortunately, the protagonist is not equipped with a gun, whip or katana. In addition to environmental hazards, you'll run afoul of fair collection of beasts like bats and unnameable carnivores. So much as touching this hazard will instantly kill you, as you'll be sucked into it. You can overcome most of these obstacles with a few leaps and some well-timed screen rotations, but even then you must remain vigilant of black paper. A pointy tree limb may seem benign, for instance, but altering its position can transform it into a deadly spike. With a press of a button and a twist of the Wii remote, you can rotate the screen whilst keeping the paper man in place.Īlthough the protagonist strolls at a leisurely pace, this game is no walk in the park, as you'll bump into your share of perils and traps. For it's through you that he can turn impeding walls into floors and floating vertical segments into horizontal platforms. Of course, he requires your assistance in so doing.

Instead, this man is all about turning the world topsy-turvy in order to advance in his quest to locate the mythic end of the stage. Speed is not the name of the paper protagonist's game.

It might not turned out so had the developers at Broken Rules added some new scenarios rather than recycling familiar ones, or even introduced other abilities than the same old song repeatedly."Īnd Yet It Moves, though not quickly. "As you can guess, the game eventually becomes a tedious montage of screen-turning, causing the gimmick to overstay its welcome.
