And Yet It Moves

I've always wanted to play this ever since I played the demo of AYIM on the Wii over and over again as a kid. Very cool puzzle platformer with lots of personality !! The gameplay and flipping mechanics are fun, the music can range from chill to mysterious to funky, the paper aesthetic of this game is very charming and unique, and I just generally love the whole vibe of this game. The ONLY thing I wish this game had was full 360 degree rotation like the Wiiware version had; that was one of my favorite parts of that version.

17 levels? I just got the achievement for completing chapter two. A shiny, gold, rare achievement that only 7.9% of players have attained. This game was released in 2009, so perhaps the gracious explanation is that achievements were introduced later on, but if that isn't the case then I can see why what should be a common achievement is such a rare one. This mostly generic platformer has an interesting aesthetic and a fun gimmick that is tired now but I understand was somewhat ahead of its time, but the best descriptor I can give it is "annoying." The background ambience is annoying, so I turned that off. The sound effects are also annoying - very repetitive and insistent with no variation - but they give important gameplay cues. The player character's jumps are largely useless, as the true "jumping" you're supposed to do is achieved by rotating the world. Fine. But then you're contending with the absolutely unforgiving - and inconsistent - fall damage. Annoying. There are times when a fall will kill you seemingly just because, and other falls that should be fatal but aren't because that is what the game wants you to do. You're *supposed* to be able to break your fall safely on sloped surfaces, but even the slope used to introduces this mechanic only works a fraction of the time. Every movement demands exact and mysterious precision that the graphics make hard to perceive and the controls mostly don't allow. You die. You die. You die. All while the entire vibe of the game appears to want to be relaxing. I hope you enjoy jumping on bamboo poles. I spent the significant majority of my playtime trying to time my jumps in the nth of a second allowed to increase the jump distance a fraction of an inch. Missing that miniscule window of time means, more often than not, having to start over. The puzzles all felt bland and lacked the "aha!" moment of figuring it out. Truly, the most puzzling part was figuring out which corner to try to fling the character towards, because whatever next platform was outside the view of the screen... Also, I did encounter a game-breaking glitch in which a swing that was required to get from point A to B simply blipped out of existence and wouldn't come back. It wasn't stuck anywhere, it just disappeared while I was looking at it. There's no option to reset a checkpoint, so I just had to throw that run. Which was annoying, especially because it was after I had finally cleared a bunch of the aforementioned tedious bamboo poles.

Getting 100% was a slog, playing the same levels over and over again and dying to random rocks and an extra 0.02 cm of fall height. approximate amount of time to 100%: 20-30h ~ Estimated achievement difficulty: 7/10 (mostly bonus levels, especially "chase" for me) Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 21 levels 4 for each level (normal, minimum spins, time trial, no death) Multiplayer achievements: No Multiplayer. Missable achievements: No. (There's chapter select) Grinding Achievements: Yes!!. DLC-Only achievements: No. Time-gated achievements: No. Speed-run achievements: Yes!!. RNG-achievements: Yes!!. Does difficulty affect achievements: Yes!!! (gold stamps means max speed, minimal rotations and minimal deaths), doing a bit worse unlocks other stamps. Unobtainable/glitched achievements: Forum reports + Personal case * First achievement unlock: Fall on a steep slope with terminal speed, 5-10 minutes in. Or finish chapter 1 (4 levels) Is there a good guide: Not really. Notes: * Game features random achievements (Random, as I understand nobody knows how it's awarded, but it seems prety frequent) * Game features negative achievements (1000 Deaths, etc.) * Game features speedrun achievements but the leaderboard in game is broken and clicking to watch a ghost crashes the game. * Chapter select is available, Main menu>Choose a mode * The game is non-deterministic, Your checkpoints don't save the game state but the player position. It's possible (Hell, encouraged) to die and get teleported back to your checkpoint but now the rocks are out of the way for example. Another great example is Labyrinth, where in theory your character shouldn't be able to pass between 2 rectangles... but sometimes you pass, sometimes you die, most of the times you just stop as intended. It' Random. * Google is crap now and the AI's hallucinate all sorts of incompetence so finding out how to get some achievements was extra tricky (made a guide for the most confusing one IMO). * Some users report achievements not unlocking on the forums but I understand there were some patches years ago that allegedly fixed it. For me Kamikaze didn't want to unlock until the 3-4'th time. I also left the game running for 3.5 hours and it didn't want to unlock the Addicted achievement until way further. * I play everything from shooters to rhyhtm games for hours without problems but this game almost makes me vomit. Something about my brain can't handle the screen rotations. Fair warning, especially since there's a nausea-inducing achievement for the spin cycle level. This was most likely a student project that went way too far that was stuffed into humble bundles as filler. You can judge how people like this game by the fact that there are almost no guides and almost no videos, Just like you can judge how popular an Overwatch character is by the amount of rule34 posts on her. Way Under 49% Not Recommended.

It isn't the best Puzzle Game but the gameplay is pretty unique, same for art and sounds. Oh yeah, the sounds. I can not say for sure but at least the majority of all sounds in this game are made by humans. It feels like listening to a Beatboxer the whole time. Pretty funny... for a while. Anyway, you need to walk or jump and rotate the whole screen, which can be frustrating on some parts. Some parts are very easy, some are super tricky and need good timing. I had fun for some hours and it wasn't too long to get annoyed by the sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPngYbHuq7k

Originaly played the demo for this on the wii. its nice to see that my brain wasn't lying about remembering this game. fun short 2d platformer. not much else to say, I like it.

(DO NOT 100% THIS GAME, YOU WILL NOT ENJOY IT, JUST DO A CASUAL PLAYTHROUGH.) There is so much I want to say about this game, but then my review willl be too long. I will try to keep this brief. I have a love-hate relationship with And Yet It Moves. I'll start with the good parts. The artstyle of this game is timeless, and is the one part of the game that doesn't feel dated. If you ever wanted to play an Eric Carle book ( The man who Illustrated The Hungry Catterpillar) then this game is for you! The sound effects of this game are also funny, my personal favorites are the monkey sounds in chapter two (which is just the developers of this game making monkey sounds, lol), and the iconic/uniconic sound of falling in a black hole (just a dude whistling.) The soundtrack is original and cool-sounding, with all the sound effects and songs being composed only with the voices of humans. I have a soft spot for this game, so I didn't really notice or care about the flaws/bugs on my casual playthroughs, but GOOD LORD MAN, the mechanics of this game are inconsistent as Hell. The game tells you slopes don't kill you if you land on them, then there are perfect looking slopes that sometimes kill you and sometimes don't kill you. Sometimes you die from fall damage, sometimes you don't! THERE'S NO RHYME OR REASON!!! (There is also a bug where sometimes you boot up the game and your mouse cursor disappears, really weird.) And if you decide to get all gold badges for this game, it'll make you want to RIP ALL YOUR HAIR OUT INDIVIDUALLY. There are three badges to get for each mode (Limited Rotations, Survival, and Time Trial.) Limited rotations is just beating a level in as little rotations as possible, (the game is about rotating the world,) Survival is just trying to get through a world without dying, and Time Trial*. *Time trial is the hardest of the three, which is just you needing to beat a level under a pre-made time limit, and some of these pre-made time limits are complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on some levels, some are fairly easy to complete, and others require amazing percision to perform, but if you put a lot of elbow grease into it, it's only incredibly obnoxious and exhausting and insane. That's ignoring the last four levels. After beating the epilogue level, you unlock four hard final levels. These levels are fine to do on a normal playthrough, and honestly, the first two are easy to 100%, third is really annoying but doable, and the last level is seriously EVIL. The Chase is unironically the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ level to ever get all the badges on. You need to complete an incredibly hard level on a strict time limit, while also needing to wrestle with the annoying inconsistent mechanics. You will die so many times on this level. You will start to feel hatred for the developers for this challenge, you will begin to go insane from the silence of the no music in these final four levels and the sounds of enemies chasing you. It requires insane luck, yes there's some skill to it, but it's mostly luck. It's too long to explain, just know it's like being teleported to the deepest layer of Hell where it's all frozen and cold, which is what you'll feel after you 100% this level. I decided to 100% this level first for some reason, and every subsequent level after that felt so much easier it's insane, and I'm glad I did it this way. Every other badge is Super Weenie Hut Jr's compared to this ♥♥♥♥. If any of you out there are interested in buying this game, DO NOT SEEK OUT TO FULLY COMPLETE I HAVE TO REITERATE ON THIS. The developers genuinely dropped the ball hard on how they went about this Crazy achievement. I felt so much anger everytime this game kicked me in the nuts, but I kept going. It feels gratifying finally completing the last level and the whole game for that matter, but it just isn't worth it. It requires too much luck with the inconsistent engine this game runs off for it to be worth it. This review ended up being long, but whatever. I do recommend this game to people, it's short, but I feel like it's memorable. It is the first game this studio has ever made, after all, just don't 100% it. if you do feel like 100% this game, come to me, I'll be glad to help.

And Yet It Moves é um jogo de puzzle de plataforma no qual você pode rotacionar o mundo, assim alterando a gravidade, para passar de obstáculos e chegar no final de suas várias fases. Eu acho que ele é um jogo com uma mecânica inventiva pra época, e que faz um trabalho decente em usar ela de maneiras interessantes ao longo de sua duração, mas que não envelheceu tão bem quando comparado com seus contemporâneos do meio independente, assim como com as experiências que esse meio consegue nos proporcionar hoje em dia. Meu maior problema com ele foi que suas mecânicas se baseiam em física, e em muitos momentos achei seus sistemas bem instáveis, são bem menos confiáveis do que se esperaria - seja a gravidade acelerando do nada, ou um trampolim que te mata ao invés de te dar um impulso. Eu vi que na época o jogo foi lançado para o Nintendo Wii e permitia nele uma liberdade muito maior de movimentação, com o jogador definindo o grau de rotação do mundo, enquanto nessa versão aqui a rotação está limitada à ângulos de 90 graus, o que dá muito menos precisão para o jogador. Eu também senti falta de qualquer tipo de narrativa ou objetivo além de chegar no final de cada fase, eu sinto que senti falta de algo a mais para me manter investido além de sua mecânica. Dito isso, ainda estou recomendando And Yet It Moves: por mais que suas falhas tenham impedido ele de ter se mantido tão popular quanto Braid ou Limbo no decorrer dos anos, eu ainda acho que a originalidade de sua mecânica principal e a frequente diversidade e surpresa de momentos de seus níveis criam uma experiência que vale a pena ser jogada pelo menos uma vez para quem é fã do gênero. Eu especificamente só não acho que valha a pena pra quem deseja fazer 100% dele, eu mesmo desisti de ganhar de seus vários modos bônus depois de me frustrar com suas fases extras bem injustas. (Observação: 7 horas do meu tempo de jogo foram tentando pegar uma conquista de jogar o jogo por 3h30min sem parar, como não veio na segunda tentativa desisti, então meu tempo real de jogo ficaria em torno de 7 ou 8 horas.)

5/10 would grab on deep sale + can increase game speed to %150 or decrease to %50 - short

ガリレオ「それでも地球は回って…あれ？これ回ってるんじゃなくて重力の方向変わってね？」 このゲームの場合は正確にはそうです 一定の高さから落ちると死亡するので無茶な攻略が出来ない所がバランスが良く ゲームクリア後にスピードランの動画を見るとわかるが、想像以上に可能性に満ちた攻略が可能 一度クリアしただけなら到底思いつかない発想、短縮技術が散見され驚かされるが本当に練習しないと出来ないものが多い 速くクリアしようとすると難易度は跳ね上がります、そこに魅力を感じる事が出来ればプレイされるのも良いかと思います 単にクリアするだけならアイデア一本勝負のゲームという印象で終わると思いますが十分な満足感は得られます

Started as a computer science project of the Vienna University of Technology in 2007, And Yet It Moves is an innovative platform/puzzle game made by an independent developer. There is no real story in the game; as a nameless character, the goal is to traverse levels from a start to an endpoint. Jumping is the only move the protagonist has, but that is not all that can be done. At any time, the level the protagonist is in can be spun by 90° or 180°, causing time to freeze for a brief moment, and gravity to resume after the rotation has been completed. Spinning the screen has physical consequences, since gravity always points downwards, and rotating the level does not impact neither the momentum of the protagonist nor that of any other objects in the level. Falling from too high, though, kills the protagonist, so endlessly spinning a level to reach the end is not an option. Other obstacles like fires or black holes can also kill the protagonist. There are no lives, though, and a series of well-placed checkpoints make the challenges manageable; each checkpoint also clearly indicates in which direction the next one is, making navigation easy. And Yet It Moves has really stylish and unique visuals; the levels resemble a paper collage and even the main character is just a cutout pencil line-drawing on white paper. The soundtrack is mostly composed of ambient noises and amazingly performed beat-boxing. There are only 17 levels, making the game short, yet excellently paced. All things considered, And Yet It Moves is a very solid indie platform/puzzle game, worth the time it takes to finish it.