It's a Wrap!

It has a bit of an identity crisis. tl;dr the platforming gets in the way of the puzzling, and the puzzling gets in the way of the platforming; everything else is meh. I first played this at PAX and was looking froward to it. I love the idea still, but this game is just not for me. It feels like it's trying to be a puzzle game and a precision platformer. The platforming becomes a barrier for those looking for a fun puzzle game, but it's too unpolished for someone looking for a challenging platformer. As a puzzle game, often I find that I have the correct sequence, and I am just not platforming well enough so I think the sequence is incorrect. Every arrangement means you have to first get the platforming down before you can be confident the sequence isn't quite right. The "aha!" moment of each puzzle is unsatisfying because of all the work, and then knowing all the work to come to make sure it's tweaked right and you have to skill to execute the scene. The need for precision during the platforming makes it really frustrating to trial and error the sequence. As a precision platformer... it just fails. The controls are perfectly serviceable for platforming, but if you want precision to be fun serviceable isn't good enough. It's missing all the little micro tweaks that tighten up the controls so you don't feel like you're fighting against them the whole time. Additionally the scene elements are awful at telegraphing when you need to jump. Perfectly fine for more basic platforming, but just not good enough for precision platforming. The fun interaction elements and sequence testing makes it really frustrating to trial and error the platforming. Overall the game stands in the way of itself in nearly every aspect. Small bursts of fun between periods of frustration, annoyance, and fluff. Even just restarting a level (in a game that is all about trial and error, mind you) requires you to skip a bunch of stuff, you gotta jam the button like 3 or 4 times. It would be way better if you could just rewind a time segment instead of having to start all over - especially when you're testing some sequencing at the end of the scene. All the inter-scene stuff is uninteresting and forgettable. It's not voiced so if you read even at a normal rate you're gonna be jamming the fast forward button. There's a reason most games have a button to skip just the single bubble - so you can easily read at your own pace. The controls are fine, but the xbox controls for the UI feel pretty meh. They're not bad, but they could be good. For example, instead of using the triggers and buttons to seek the timeline and elements back and forth, the button just takes your cursor to the seek thing, so if you want to tweak, then seek back and forth, then tweak it's pretty tedious. Maybe you'll like it; maybe you'll love it. But for me, the concept is awesome but the game stands in the way of itself too much to be worth it.

Ahh- I really wanted to like this game. I saw the first few puzzles on a lets play and decided I had to try it. The style stays cute, the scripts are cheesy and great, but the puzzles and platforming get frustrating pretty quickly. A few of the levels are very clear on what you need to do- but there's so many moving pieces it feels like random luck getting the right answer. For example, there's a section where you need to aim a worms head at a rock and fire. You can only fire at certain intervals and each limb can be rotated (Not freely, but you choose the timings of the rotations that are on the timeline- and when those rotations happen). There's 4 segments that rotate. I spent 30 minutes missing the rock. Those types of missions get more and more common. Really wish I could recommend it- such a cool idea and style! There are some cool levels but the later ones get just a bit too much for my tastes.

I really really want to like this game. It combines interesting puzzles with challenging platforming, and if you really enjoy both of those things this game might be for you. It is not for me. The platform is way tighter than I'd expect: I've struggled to execute the correct solution after getting the puzzle solved. Which means I spend a lot of time trying the wrong puzzle solutions when I'm struggling to execute the platforming for the right one. And have had to resort to slowly solving puzzles using the in game hints (I love the hint system), and then grinding out the platforming separately. I think it's an amazing idea, and I can only recommend it to folks who like hard platformers.

The Dark Souls of puzzle platformer! While playing I was cursing at the developers and applauding them at the same time. Some of the levels are ridiculously hard, but the triumph you feel after you beat on of them is priceless. I have never seen a game of this genre with level desgin as diversified and clever as this.

Já pensou ter um jogo do seu job? Eu não, haha. Mas parece que aconteceu. It's a Wrap é um game sobre edição de vídeo, em parte. Você primeiro arruma elementos da timeline, como se fosse um puzzle, movendo obstáculos, inimigos, cenario e afins, pra depois meter o enter e em vez de dar play no filme, tu entra num segmento de plataforma. Portanto o loop de gameplay aqui é colocar tudo na ordem perfeita para depois conseguir fazer a parte de plataforma, que tem de ser perfeita... É super criativo, e funciona NA TEORIA, mas tem alguns problemas chatos. Diverte, mas não é pra todos. E eu falo melhor aqui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVtgnEzuiTs

Оригинальная живая идея с приятной графикой и анимацией. Отсылки к кину 80х-90х ,вроде крепкого орешка или Индианы Джонс, радуют глаз. Вот и все хорошее,что можно сказать... Далее начинаются испытания на стабильность нервной системы, потому что циклы взаимосвязаны и не всегда можно понять без элементов перебора вектор действий. Игру стоит проходить как хорошее вино: по глоточку и с перерывами между подходами в пару дней. Игра как задачка в математике: при уставании замыкаешься и начинаешь топтаться на месте,вместо того,чтобы изменить подход и взглянуть иначе на картину.

Such a bizarre concept of a game. I was very intrigued by the idea, and after playing it, I must say it works surprisingly well and now I'm left wondering why this has not been done before. However, unfortunately not all of the levels are fun to play or figure out. Some levels emphasize too much on the platforming aspect, it makes me question myself whether I have the timeline correctly sorted. Other times, there is zero platforming needed but the timeline is such a mess such that the only way forward is to try all combinations until you get one that works. Probably my biggest gripe is when I know the general direction of the solution, but it takes too much time to arrange everything on the timeline. Say you need a guard to be at one place at a given time. Naturally, you need to do a lot of other stuff to achieve that, say raising a platform at some specific time. However, raising the platform too early will block you from completing the level, thus you need to adjust it again, and also re-align everything that factors to the guard's movement. When there are 5 or 6 elements that depend on each other, this becomes tedious fast. Also, sometimes the granularity of the timeline is too coarse, so you can't make one event happen at the exact time you want, only a little too early or too late, resulting in more timeline shuffling. On the other hand, the hint system is very granular, so you can decide how much you want the game to tell you. I still think that it's best to let the design of the puzzle guide the player instead of giving hints though, but you can't please everyone. All in all, I think the novelty of this game defeats its shortcomings, and I pretty much recommend everyone to at least sample a taste.

动作与解密的结合，游戏多多少少有一点“玩家自己设计平台跳跃关卡、自己来玩过去”的感觉。 很有创意，虽然关卡难度升的有点快。

Уникальная по геймплею игрушка, но я бы оставил ей нейтральный отзыв. Если же выбирать нужно между пальцем вверх и вниз, то пусть будет первый. В игре всего 3 фильма, и при прохождении 1-го я был в восторге! Но чем дальше, тем запутаннее становятся уровни, при этом новые механики меня особо не вовлекали. К счастью, подсказки тут не ограничены и не влияют на достижения, а после применения всех подсказок всё равно остаётся пространство для ошибок и по-своему интересного прохождения. Глобальный диссонанс у меня вызывало то, что авторы как будто не совсем определились с ролью игрока. Вроде бы ты управляешь действиями главного [strike]героя[/strike] актёра, но также ты определяешь тайминги спецэффектов и движений разных элементов сцены, так что игрок является то ли режиссёром, то ли постановщиком трюков. Если подсказки зафиксировали все последовательности, то игра превращается в платформер-шутер. Но если подсказки не использовать, то количество комбинаций столь велико, что играть становится слишком сложно и даже неинтересно. Кажется, что ты примерно понимаешь, куда нужно двигаться, пытаешься подстроить таймлайн 3-6 разных событий (например, направления патрулей, перемещения лифтов и т.п.), но сцена не складывается, и вот тебе приходится начинать с самого начала, а потом ещё и ещё… Честно говоря, я был бы более рад, если бы в игре уровней было не 25, а 100, но все они были бы такой же сложности, как в 1-м фильме. В остальном у меня нет претензий к [b]It’s a Wrap![/b]: качественная стилизация под боевики 80-х, милое поведение персонажей, приятный тематический саундтрек, удобное управление и необычный геймплей. Если бы количество элементов в головоломках было не так велико, то я бы шикарно провёл время за прохождением. Получается, лучше меньше, да лучше — вот и всё!

I like this game but it makes me feel like an idiot.