Topsy Turvy

on Saturday, February 12, 2011
Topsy Turvy is a flash game by Candystand.com that is also available for the iPhone. Its a cute little gravity shifting platformer. The concept has been done to death in flash, but the game is still rather fun, albiet too easy and lacking in the puzzle division.

For about the first twenty levels, the game is pretty puzzle based, you turn the world and find the appropriate direction for your planned jumps and falls, but after that point, the game becomes more of a mildly puzzle based traditional platformer, it takes a lot of reflexes, but not which thinking, which is disappointing following the levels before the final five. Overall the game is a bit on the easy side, no level took me more than two minutes, except for the final one, which requires either perfect timing, or you to stand in a hard to judge, nearly pixel perfect gap and jump over a moving spike wheel multiple times.

The level design isn't perfect, the story is a throwaway plot, and the graphics are pretty generic, so why would you keep playing this game? Because it is damned addictive. Its not one of those games there the puzzles eventually become completely insurmountable, after thinking for a few seconds just about any map's solution should become pretty obvious, but executing the solution becomes harder and harder as the game goes on, and the drive to finish compels you to play until you see it through.

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