We love ourselves a good time travel yarn, but it's a sadly underutilized element in video gaming. Sure, we had 'Time Cop,' but the less said about that the better. But we do have 'Chronotron,' which does time travel justice by incorporating it into a clever puzzle platformer. 'Chronotron' plays out over 39 levels, each of which will present you with ever more mentally debilitating puzzles that require an adept manipulation of chronology to circumvent. Each level has you controlling a robot who must acquire a circuit chip to get his TARDIS-esque time machine working again. You'll use standard keyboard controls to navigate, but hitting the spacebar will allow two or more versions of yourself to exist at once, each of which can help circumvent certain obstacles. While you don't have individual control of each copy of your character, whatever moves you've made with him will be replayed once you travel back in time. This allows you to operate a rising platform so that your future self can ride it, or open a sequence of closed doors with several versions of yourself standing on the triggering mechanisms. It may sound as paradoxical as 'A Sound of Thunder,' but once you get the hang of it, you'll wonder how you ever got by without the help of your own past self.
Flash Puzzle Platformer 'Chronotron' Is Gonna Go Back In Time originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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