Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to the house to sleep. All normal and fairly boring so far.
And then you face your nightmares. You are pitched in a battle against death or fear or loathing -- you don't quite know. You lose the fight and you're stripped of all your memories and propelled back into the real world with only your written notes, your codex, to guide you.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to the house to sleep. All normal and fairly boring so far.
And then you face your nightmares. You are pitched in a battle against death or fear or loathing -- you don't quite know. You lose the fight and you're stripped of all your memories and propelled back into the real world with only your written notes, your codex, to guide you.
Continue reading Level Up! A platform-hopping RPG Time-Waster
Level Up! A platform-hopping RPG Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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