VVVVVV
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VVVVVV

Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh

2010•Platformer•PEGI 3•About 3 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurefantasyscience fictionmonster/alien/supernaturalrobots/ai/spacefastfresh & originalunsavouryimaginarysimplelinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questrescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeOtherworldly and expansive: a fresh platformer, fast rather than slow-burning. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.

Pace: fast · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

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About This Game

There's something terribly wrong in an alternate dimension! Help Captain Viridian flip to find five crew members, 20 hard-to-reach Trinkets and save a dimension on the brink of destruction. It's a space opera in the most unique scale with a style that only VVVVVV can bring to you. Instead of jumping, control the direction of gravity by inverting your gravity and allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors and ceilings of the environment. For adventurers who save the dimension, there's still hours and hours of new gameplay with all-new Player Levels. Test your mettle and see if you have what it takes to beat a collection of levels created by other famous game developers. Inspired by classic 8-bit days gone-by and now with experience-heightening 3D, VVVVVV will challenge even the most battle-hardened old-school gamers.

Summary: IGDB

Story

A spaceship with six crew members - Viridian, Victoria, Vitellary, Vermillion, Verdigris, and Violet - suddenly encountered mysterious trouble while underway. The group escapes by means of a teleportation device, but for some reason all the crew members are sent to different places. Viridian, the protagonist, must find the other crew members and escape from this mysterious labyrinth...

Screenshots

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Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureFantasyScience fictionMonster/alien/supernaturalRobots/ai/spaceAll consuming questRescue/escape/jeopardyUnderdog triumphs

Keywords

GhostsExplorationRetroGravityLevel editorMetroidvaniaDeathOld school

Details

Developers
Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh
Publishers
Nicalis, Inc., Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh
Released
11 January 2010
Platforms
PlayStation 4, Ouya, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective
Side view
Time to beat
2h rushed, 3h normally
Age rating
PEGI 3
Taste scores
How we score
Source
IGDB

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