Thinking with shifting.
Shift is an innovative game with a twist, or Shift, I should say.
You play as a charictarless man with a special ability. Level through level the puzzels get harder and harder. Without trying to spoil it, you try to get to the end of the stage, represented by a door, by 'Shifting' through. This Shifting makes you go into the ground and inverts everything, twisting you into another dimension-like stage. You have to shift your way throughout dimensions and platforms to get to the finish.
It's a Puzzel/ Platformer game. But the obsticles are mind churning and thoughtful. The stages are Extremely well thought out and designed. But it often gets repetitive over the first five levels.
The music is a looped song, uh oh. But it is a very scene tune from DanPaladin, so no worries. The Mysterious and Sleuthness of the song helps you think. But the problem is that it's not very long ( about 40 seconds), and it loops. So you're stuck with it.
The graphics are pleasent. Normal arts and charicter animations are flipped into a whole new way when you shift. Not much color aside from black and white. But the color choice does give it classic points. The only colors aside from Black and White is the blood when you die. I'ts fluid blood, but the change from looking at non-colors straight to red is kind of tacky. But thats an extremely picky complaint.
The controls are the plain arrow-keys-to-move style. And you shift by pressing.... Shift! A game that's named after it's main control. You jump by pressing space. But the jumping is very hard for platforming mainly because you have to miss those spikes by an inch at best. But that makes it more challenging. The thing that makes it easier is that you can move while in the air without slowing. Just change the direction in the air and you're charicter will do it without hesitating. So it's pretty easy to back out of mid-jumps whilst in the air if you dont think you'll make the leap.
I'ts a pretty hard game, but it wont take you too long unless you're a retard. The level design, controls, and shifting makes it challenging and fun at the same time.
Gameplay- 10
Sound- 7
Graphics- 9
Colntrols- 8
Difficulty-8
Overall- 8
Pros: Great Design. You will have fun unless you dont have a brain.
Cons: I still have that song stuck in my head. Slight repitition.
Great game
LeeDon