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The whole game is in black, white, and shades of gray, with overlaid scratchy film effects and silent movie subtitles, beautifully produced. An old-timey villain who loves pies somehow finds a time-pie that causes everything to repeat, forcing Winterbottom to rewind and fast-forward through steampunkish worlds. The plot? Well, don't expect us to make much sense of it. Winterbottom only requires you to collect all the pies in a level in order to finish. Braid involved opening lots of doors, but P.B. Like that game, both are collections of 2D side-scrolling puzzles using the ability to travel back in time to create multiple versions of the main character. In terms of gameplay, you've seen something like this before, and that something is Braid.

Long discussed at indie gaming events such as GDC, the Odd Gentlemen-developed game has been published by 2K Games, makers of normally far more mainstream fare.

Winterbottom is just such a game, available now on Xbox Live Arcade for the MS Points equivalent of $10. Last year saw quite a few memorable download-only games, many of them inventive and weird enough to simply be unbankable as a disc-based release. Winterbottom for Xbox Live ArcadeĮvery couple of times a season, it seems, we're due for another well-crafted downloadable indie gaming sensation on either Xbox Live Arcade, PSN or Nintendo's WiiWare.

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