Saturday, June 7, 2014

The Best Free Games of the Week-The Bound of Time by wowa

Flowers are your friends in this neat puzzle platformer which, yet again, takes place within a teeny-tiny window. The knightly adventuring hero can't see too well in light, or jump up high ledges, so they have to rely on a magical flower they soon come into contact with, which can enable jump pads and see better than most humans for some reason. Switching to the flower transforms the sad colour palette into a veritable rainbow, suggesting (the title also adds to this) that it's showing us the world at a different point in time.
The hero/heroine turns into a statue while you're controlling the flower, and there's some clever overlap here when it comes to puzzles (the flower can jump on statue-you's head, for example). I think it would be half the game it is without the beautiful Secret of Mana-ish soundtrack, so be sure to play this one with the volume on.

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