Just think of bionic commando and you'll be fine for controlling. Still have no idea what to do on the planets though.

Hdfisise

The game gives off a strange vibe. The dull colors and looping piano melody is a bit emotional and solemn, but despite that everyone is smiling like they just found a twenty in their laundry pocket. The controls were a tad confusing at first (I had no idea I needed to latch onto the clouds), but once I got into it, the game is actually a bit therapeutic and relaxing. Perfect right before work.

TackyLamp

I downloaded this game a couple of days ago.

Basically, I had no idea what to do. But it sure was purdy lookin'

Ryumeka

Don't even try to play any game on a trackpad.

Kenny

Weird you didn't mention it was made by Edmund McMillen, creator of Gish.

SolDieR

spoiler: it ends with a to be continued

Emulated

I can't tell if that ending was sweet or horribly depressing.

InfernoT

hmm, ill try it with the trackpad, good concept tho

Shockadin

What exactly am I supposed to do? I'm just swinging around in the clouds.

Aethyr

'it did take me some time to figure out how to successfully get off the ground and into the atmosphere'

Really? I got it the moment I got the game started. I was singing the Spider Man theme.

That said, I am to stupid to figure out what to do at the planets. =D

SinisterSpade

Is it just me, or does some of that Piano track sound exactly like something from Twilight Princess?

_woLf

@Hdfisise: have you played bionic commando? this doesnt control anything like it.

Lorrr

I can't figure out what to do, other than swing around random from planet to planet.

Lethal_Dosage

i just tried it. it was incredibly boring. sorry

thaKingRocka

Yey, played it to completion, quite liked it, but it lagged horribly for me constantly.
Grappler were quite awesome to use, hardest puzzle was the green planet imo. :)

abbe

It's somehow not working with my mice... I accidently shoot my tongue sometimes when I jump, but that's it. Does someone has the same problem?

Schabrak

Snow planet? Er, I don't remember that..

The green watery-planet has balloon-looking things that I just swung around them in circles until they popped. There were 4, I think.

Core planet, you just keep swinging from crystal to crystal without touching the ground. After a bit, you're done!

RedLinkJ

@InfernoT:

Not quite horribly depressing, but depressing indeed and very odd at the same time.

LordoftheShy

Water Planet: Swim down and eat all the fish

Rocky Planet: Land on all the moons

Snow Planet: I am on this one now and I am stumped. I figured out the first two by just messing around until something happened.

Sap_My_Sentry

The music reminded me of the sand palace in FF9.

I didn't really get it, I just flew to another planet to find depressed folks

flukielukie

.... I see how it's played now... better download it, seems to take a lot of ram for a flash game. g

Schabrak

@Benjammn:
It's great for this rainy afternoon I'm having.

Benjammn

Aether is... quaint. Both relaxing and disturbing. I guess the collision of that is quaint.

Benjammn

@hoezee: Oh. *That* snow planet.

RedLinkJ

I had fun. Thank you Maggie Green.
Of course, you'll post the next one if it comes out, right?

@Sap_My_Sentry: snow planet: swing around the cristals.

hoezee

I beat it. It was fun, and swinging on things was cool.

The ending made me kind of surprised cause I thought I would be stuck.

LastFace

@InfernoT: It was horribly depressing!

Lobescoper

"I'll be happy when I'm dead."

I do adore this new generation of surreal, emo, navel-gazing games, like this and "Braid".

The controls are def wonky. It can be cumbersome to get going, even once you've figured out how to swing. The planet puzzles can be frustrating because aside from the "flash", there's sometimes no huge indication that you've beaten a puzzle. And I had to restart the game because the "click all over the place" interface makes it real easy to click on an advert or my bookmark toolbar...

Yet... a fun rainy-Saturday time-waster, indeed.

dystopika

How do you do the snow planet?

adventlife

Reminded me of the beautiful, quiet scenes of some classic SNES adventures/RPGs. Very poetical.

lumpi

Get well, Maggie.

Do Kesubei

also, was anyone else disappointed it didn't let them play with the loading screen longer?

BlueGeek

Wasn't this posted earlier? Or am I getting some kind of reverse Alzheimer's disease?

BlueGeek

I thought the game was awesome. I also though it was insanely easy. If anyone is having trouble figuring it out then you might be slightly retarded.

CarbonatedWater

@Schabrak: I have the same problem, and I can't download it - on a MAC with no bootcamp.

Anarchist_Gamer

@Anarchist_Gamer:

There's a mac version in the download

Glaiel-Gamer

Well that was weird. Fun though.

Placentasaurus

Man, that was a bit trippy for me, was fun but what an odd ending. Mostly a "wtf huh?" moments over and over again. But fun!

odinmagick

@BlueGeek: I just looked it up and it was poster earlier. Three days ago, to be exact.

DukeOfPwn

@adventlife: By reading the 20 comments before yours.

I really enjoyed this, and indeed the puzzles were very easy. The most difficulty I had was trying to get out of the ice planet after I had finished, the gravity was just enough that I had to swing just right to get back above ground. Complicated by it being my first planet, thus me being slightly retarded about swining still.

That Lamer

This game was a lot of fun, its got a good looping melody and it's pretty easy going. Finding out what to do on the planets isn't too hard actually, as soon as i figured out its a game where you use the environment to beat the puzzles, the rest of the planets were easy.

My only gripe with this game is that it takes too long to get from planet to planet, that's the only boring part to this game.

RTW

Are we at the stage where we can call a video game pretentious yet? Because if we are this is it. It's just artsy for the sake of being artsy.

eelmonger

Man, was the ending sad. Also, "Someday, I'm gonna blow this place up"? A little creepy.

DukeOfPwn

Meh... I didn't enjoy this too much, and I tend to label myself a fan of "artsy games." I agree with eelmonger - it's a little too pretentious for my standards.

It's one thing to shroud a beautiful tale in ambiguity (see Team ICO). However, to have nothing but ambiguity, meaningless/unexplained depressing monologues, and a slightly hospitalish serenity/unease feeling doesn't build enough atmosphere or plot to draw me in. Couple that with puzzles that are equally meaningless ("Stand on the moons until they go down", "Swing and touch all of the crystals", etc.) doesn't add up well for me.

phnord

I got it (was it mentioned here?) yesterday, it was very soothing, and deep, if you can put your mind around the fact that the creator put a lot of himself in the game.

I don't understand the people that say it's "pretentious", it's a free game. It's not saying or being marketed as the next ICO, or MGS, or nothing, it's a game, it's out, it's free.

artofwar420

It sure is sad to be alone

Tilimorf

Wow, I played it and beat it in about half an hour. It was great :D this is the kinda thing that would be really cool released on the wii as Wiiware, but the entire collection, or maybe a dollar for each segment, that sounds more then fair. When I end up paying more then a dollar for a drink from a vending machine, I'd pay a dollar for a good 20 minute chunk of a game.

Talleh

click, click, ....no tongue? what's the deal?

Nubius

The snow planet is Earth and it has no crystals. Crystals were on the Desert planet. Beat the other planets then go back to earth. It shrinks with every planet you complete.

AndroidKing

I liked it. You didn't get any response from the citizens when you restored their planet though. Still trying to make sense of the puzzles, wondering did they have any meaning? Were you playing a melody for the planet core? I could tell that the other things were sucking the colour from the planet, you had to reunite bits of the planet that had become moons, since they all complained about eachother/the planet and I'm guessing the fish were some sort of parasite on the water planet. I don't like games that label themselves as art. Reminds me of pretentious, goatee, glasses wearing college students. But I did enjoy the game. I just wish they left it to the player to decide whether or not it's art instead of saying 'yeah, okay, this is art, okay? so if you don't get it, w/e'. That's the vibe I got from this game. Well, not the game, but the creator. The game itself was lovely.

Sheathe

awsd to move? AWSD TO MOVE?
Don't they ever, EVER, stop to think about us poor AZERTY users? EVER?

Timooo

@Timooo:

We thought about it then forgot about it.

Glaiel-Gamer

@Timooo: No, in the same way that sports stadiums don't have shemale bathrooms.

Moonshadow101

@artofwar420: well, maybe it's the ham-fisted way the creator put his childhood anxieties into the game with characters that say things like "nobody likes me."*, and "at least no one can hurt me here."*

if it were a longer game he could have actually developed characters, which would have been better. but that's not the game he was making. maybe there's a better way he could have expressed those things other then blatantly shouting them at the player. that's the only thing that really put me off.

*paraphrasing.

pasquinelli

i loved it.

pasquinelli

Aww, that wasn't bad at all. I wouldn't say it's pretentious, except for the ending. It was a pretty cute game though.

StickyPurpleCat

@Glaiel-Gamer

D:

Timooo