And yet it moves. In a clunky, immensely tedious fashion, but it moves.
AYIM is a physics-based puzzle platformer rendered in a collage style that's built around a simple gimmick: you can rotate the screen by 90° degrees as many times as you like. The basic idea is that you can gain momentum in one direction, then turn the screen around to go in another direction.
If any of that makes you excited... Don't. AYIM was so atrocious, after playing it, I forbade myself from buying other games of its genre on Steam, because every one of those ended up being like this: boring, janky, with gameplay that is completely inconsistent and nowhere near shippable.
The character in AYIM moves at such a leisurely place, you can, no exaggeration, check Twitter while you play. That is enough to make the experience completely tedious, but the physics are what make the game move into infuriating territory. For one, this is a game about launching yourself around... and yet it has fall damage. Very random fall damage, even: sometimes you'll survive high falls, but die from small leaps.
There's a mechanic through which, supposedly, you can mitigate your fall if you land on a slope. I never got it to work anywhere other than the tutorial, and even then it took some effort. Every other mechanic the game introduces is inconsistent like this, and the worst one has to be the bamboo springboards.
Some stages have these bamboos sticking out from a wall the wall that you have jump on and bounce off of like a springboard. However, the timing and accuracy the game demands is bizarre, and the whole thing requires more luck than anything else. The funny thing is, I googled this mechanic when it got me stuck, and was met with several people that weren't able to solve it either, and just dropped the game right there. That's when I knew I had wasted my money.
I suppose the collage-like scenery is somewhat fetching to some -- personally, I think it looks hideous -- but it alone certainly cannot carry a game that lacks sounds, plot, or even functional mechanics. And Yet It Moves is a frustrating, unrewarding experience that brings about the worst of its genre, and should be avoided at all costs.
AYIM is a physics-based puzzle platformer rendered in a collage style that's built around a simple gimmick: you can rotate the screen by 90° degrees as many times as you like. The basic idea is that you can gain momentum in one direction, then turn the screen around to go in another direction.
If any of that makes you excited... Don't. AYIM was so atrocious, after playing it, I forbade myself from buying other games of its genre on Steam, because every one of those ended up being like this: boring, janky, with gameplay that is completely inconsistent and nowhere near shippable.
The character in AYIM moves at such a leisurely place, you can, no exaggeration, check Twitter while you play. That is enough to make the experience completely tedious, but the physics are what make the game move into infuriating territory. For one, this is a game about launching yourself around... and yet it has fall damage. Very random fall damage, even: sometimes you'll survive high falls, but die from small leaps.
There's a mechanic through which, supposedly, you can mitigate your fall if you land on a slope. I never got it to work anywhere other than the tutorial, and even then it took some effort. Every other mechanic the game introduces is inconsistent like this, and the worst one has to be the bamboo springboards.
Some stages have these bamboos sticking out from a wall the wall that you have jump on and bounce off of like a springboard. However, the timing and accuracy the game demands is bizarre, and the whole thing requires more luck than anything else. The funny thing is, I googled this mechanic when it got me stuck, and was met with several people that weren't able to solve it either, and just dropped the game right there. That's when I knew I had wasted my money.
I suppose the collage-like scenery is somewhat fetching to some -- personally, I think it looks hideous -- but it alone certainly cannot carry a game that lacks sounds, plot, or even functional mechanics. And Yet It Moves is a frustrating, unrewarding experience that brings about the worst of its genre, and should be avoided at all costs.