Buy And Yet It Moves

Surprisingly good.

I seriously didn't expect such a good game when I decided to give it a try, without knowledge about the game at all, with the excepting that it was a puzzle platformer.

It is in my opinion one of the most overlooked indie games I have played, that totally deserves more attention from puzzle platformer fans.

Overall, very good game.

Puzzle platformer with a clever mechanic that allows you to determine and turn the screen that will affect where the gravity will pull your jumping hero. Can't think of any other games that have this as a game mechanic so overall it's a nice refreshing little game to play, however it's doubtful if it can hold the interest of a gamer for a long time. There is also nothing else for this game but the turning screen mechanic, all revolves around it so it can get old very fast. Maybe a better fit as a mobile game to play in short sessions.

Rating: 7.5

Quite a good puzzle game: solve riddles while moving your visual upside down.

PRO: Originality - Balanced level of difficulty - Many checkpoints
Defects: Controls are not 100% accurate - A gamepad is highly recommended

And Yet It Moves is a flippy, tippy, topsy-turvy 2D puzzle platformer based almost entirely around the idea of revolving the world around you to solve puzzles and complete platforming challenges. Its ease of play, requiring only a jump button and three types of world rotation (Left, Right, and 180 degrees), makes it a cinch to pick up and understand. The mileage the developers got out of such simple mechanics is pretty amazing. From start to finish, you're presented with tons of unique challenges and brain teasers to sort out, with ideas hardly ever repeating aside from making sure you're mastering the fundamentals. And Yet It Moves is always throwing something new at you, which makes it easy to wanna try "just one more level" before you finally either shut it down for the night or complete it.

The only real issues with the game crop up with the sometimes wonky physics. At times it's hard to gauge when a fall will kill you and other times objects in a stage can react a little inconsistent creating some scenarios that will lead to multiple deaths, or on in one case I encountered, leave you stuck completely, which required a stage restart.

That said, the bad doesn't in any way outweigh the good, and if you're into puzzley platformers then you definitely need to give this one a spin.

And Yet It Moves is a quirky little platformer with the interesting mechanic of rotating the level to progress. While some games have used it as a gimmick for a single level or area, none have really explored the mechanic in the way that AYIM does. The entire world rotates around the player-character, quite literally, and not only does the rotation effect his gravity, but that of the physics within the world. The game uses this shifting gravity to require the player to solve not only platforming puzzles, but puzzles where the physics of in-game objects need to be manipulated through a maze, or a flame needs to be pointed in a certain direction.

Unfortunately, for all its uniqueness, And Yet does have a few glaring flaws that can make it difficult to enjoy. Sometimes it's unclear where to travel next, requiring the player to just hurdle himself around the level trying to figure it out. Some areas feel unfairly trial-and-error-based, killing the player with a hurdle that they couldn't possibly have known about, requiring them to go back to the checkpoint and retry now that they actually know what's expected of them. The second act in the jungle comes to a screeching halt when the player is required to navigate platforming challenges that use bamboo stick trampolines with clumsy timing. The player needs to gain enough air before rotating in order to make it to the next platform, but the game doesn't do a very good job of indicating when the jump button is meant to be pushed. This leads to a lot of trial and error where even when getting it right, the player can still be left confused as to the timing needed.

Over-all though, it's a unique gem in a sea of copycat wannabes. For all it's flaws, I still give this game a recommendation simply out of its uniqueness. While the game does admittedly drag for the second act, it makes-up for it in the third act. The game is at its weakest when it wants the player to fumble about with clumsy physics like in Act 2, but it's at it's absolute best when it's exploring ways to challenge the way the player needs to think around the rotation physics to navigate through an area. That's why Act 3 really shines; it keeps the physics light, and instead focuses on requiring fast thinking while the player navigates through some well-designed obstacle courses.

And Yet It Moves is far from perfect, but chip past the slog of the levels that don't work that well, and it can be easy to see the diamond hiding behind it all. If you're the kind of gamer who doesn't like dealing with the bugbears of an inexperienced developer, then it might be better to move on, but if you're someone who's willing to let unique gameplay excuse a few poor design choices, then this is a game that cannot be missed. You'll be hardpressed to find another like it.

One of the most creative, thoughtful titles I've played in a long time. Personally, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like this game unless you just are not into platformers. Challenges are well thought out, game doesn't overshare about how to do things/it leaves a lot up to the player to figure out (this is a good thing). Going back to play more. Seriously amazing game if you are on the fence.

Ignore the Mixed or Negative Ratings on this one. This is a really great platforming game and the unique graphic style works. Just play a few levels and if you're not hooked by then... Well then you just won't be.

I'm one of those people that has a very poor attention span and I am extremely surprised to see this game has a Mixed Rating. I was thinking it would have VERY POSITIVE at WORST.

This game is fantastic and has quite an eerie and deep atmosphere to it.. The further you get into the game the more eerie it gets. The puzzles are fantastic but I would say more of a Platforming Skill type of puzzle.

The music is also somewhat creepy in a weird funky trip out of a way. It just feels like something odd is around.

The physics are fantastic and give a real feel of height.

This game was awesome. One of the few games I played through.

For what it is I give it a 10/10.

This is one of those games that seemed groundbreaking in the early years of indie development. Its unique (at the time) play style was appealing for a short while. The game lacks sound. Although a few sounds effects pop up from time to time the game still feels empty and dull. I feel this game would be better suited on a mobile or tablet device as it just doesnt have enough content to pull its weight in the PC title wars.

42/10 got pushed back by a flying iguana only to have a boulder fall on me
Best drug simulator ever

Why I bought the game: Bundle

What I liked about the game: It's simple art style, and eerie music gave me a soothing atmosphere. It's a puzzle game, but it's not that hard - being able to rotate the world was fun, and left me slightly dizzy at times(in a good way).

What I didn't like about the game: When you rotate the camera the character does pause, making it feel easier to me, but this may be apart of the game as you can finish a stage without moving or jumping.

Would I buy at current asking price of 9.99? No, bundle or sale for sure.

**Disclaimer**
I would like to state all changes made by the developers of the game after this review could potentially make this entire review irrelevant.
The current date of review 10/31/14.

Its like maplestory...but with rocks.

And Yet It Moves offers a new platform mechanic. Now rotate the screen to give you a different platform to stand on. Rotate the screen in full 360 to get through the levels. Interesting art design with torn paper. Good controls and fun mechanics. Can be difficult, but mostly good simple fun.

The games title is indicative, significant and meaningful all in its own. Even though the art style is awkward and freakish, the game mechanics simple and soon repetitve, it still keeps moving. It isn't a good game And Yet It Moves.

You'll play it once, find it charming and then avoid playing it again since it was so boring. Wait for it to be in a bundle again.

Very original idea and quite a good game in the rest of its aspects.
But I completely refuse to positively rate this game for the lag in its controls (especially jumping) and the paraplegic character moves. I just had enough of "indie" being synonym of crappy controls 90% of the times. Nowadays, originality does not make up for bad controls, it is not acceptable!! We are in the noughties, not it 16-bit Donkey Kong's era, a game should not be released unless it has really been well-polished. It's a fact, nofrickingbody enjoys playing a game with your rear itching.
This doesn't but give a bad name to the indie catalog, which holds some true jewels in it.

The premise is interesting but overall as a game it isn't very fun or pleasing to look at. You can flip the world around at will so you can turn a long pit into a sideways hallway and so on and aside from simple puzzles thats really about it. The graphics are not very pleasing and I think its mainly due to the contrast with the player character. Had the player looked different or more consistant in some way with the enviroment it would actually make sense.

I mainly judge games mainly based on its price with the logic being, if each rehash of COD was 10 dollars in my mind each clone would be totally worth it. The asking price of $10 is not worth it and would only recommend if you can get it under $2.

World-altering platformers are almost a dime a dozen these days, but when this game was released it received praise for being quirky and innovative.

Even now it's difficult to argue against that, the game has a habit of pulling a something new and somewhat interesting mechanic out of the hat every time you start feeling like you're getting used to it.

On the other hand, and probably far more important, the game is not fun to play. The growth of mechanics become boring - or even frustrating - sometimes before you've finished seeing them for the first time.

It feels very much like a university game design project, made to demonstrate a combination of physics and creative obstacles. That might be because it is a university game design project. I'm not sure.

The game certainly had a lot of potential to be fun. Indeed for the latter half of the main game I was having fun, wondering what would happen next. But the game commits four cardinal sins each of which could ruin any game.

Firstly, some of the mechanics are almost unplayable. The flint rocks and the spring-reeds are particularly worthy of note as elements that bring a sense of dread every time they appear.

Secondly, the collision detection is unreliable at best. Sometimes you can survive a surprisingly long fall or getting crushed by rocks, at other times you can die from a much smaller rock touching you with barely any movement.

Third, some of the additional challenges and achievements are terribly thought out.

The game has three bonus stages that are on a par with I Wanna Be The Guy for difficulty. There's an achievement for beating those, which makes sense. There are also achievements for beating 5 levels with limited rotations, or in a certain time, or without dying too much. Those make sense too.

What doesn't make sense is the achievement for beating ALL levels - including those unreasonably hard ones - with limited rotations, in a certain time, and without dying too much. And further still, the one for doing all that with the fewest rotations possible, a ridiculously low time and without dying AT ALL.

There are also three speedrun achievements, the latter two of which rely almost entirely on getting lucky with the placement of randomised projectiles. Replaying the same twenty minutes over and over until it works right is not fun.

The last sin the game commits is adding content badly. Following its PC release a Wii version was made, which allowed for dynamic world rotation instead of the 90-degree locked turns in the PC version. The additional bonus levels and challenges were then retrofitted into the PC version, but the smooth rotation was not even though many of them were designed for it. This makes the PC version much harder than it should be for much of the content.

I need to emphasize that finding the challenges unreasonable is not the whining of a bad player. I'd accept such a claim for middling no-death runs in Super Meat Boy, but these so-called challenges are just not viable for anyone. Experienced players unanimously conclude that including the bonus levels within the challenge modes when they were all added was either an oversight or a mistake.

I remember playing the free version at a time when level turning mechanics and physic was not so common as it is nowadays. The individual graphical style in combination with the sound effects open a little charming world consisting of a collage of textures and self made noises.
Some years later i got the commercial release of the game as part of the humble bundle. As physic games where already common at that time i was not motivated to play the game as I tough i already new its style and it had nothing new for me.
It was only some months later after visiting the studio behind this game on an open day, that i installed it to try it out with a controller in front of my tv. In relative short time I was sucked into the game and only after finishing the whole game, I was able to put away my controller.
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle platformer with occasionally high level of difficulty in which you control gravity at 90 degrees. Story wise the game takes you on a personal horror psychedelic trip trough caves, jungles and colors.

I had a real grate time trying to survive the craziest jumps while turning the world upside down.

AYIM is a platformer whose gameplay you've probably seen before. It's classic running & jumping combined with the ability to rotate the game world in 90° and 180° steps. While this core gameplay is not too innovative, I liked the additionial mechanics that came with it, like rotating the world to change the direction of a flame in order to burn an obstacle.

This game's soundtrack seems to be composed entirely by human voices, which is nice and quirky to listen to. Like the audio, the graphical presentation is pleasantly different as well. In the later levels the game gets really trippy, moreso than you can see on the screenshots. Overall, AYIM seems somewhat strange, but not in a bad way at all.

Game's pretty short, you won't need more than 2 or 3 hours to beat it, though there's additional play modes like time trial or survival and achievements to get.

I had fun playing AYIM, but because of its short length I would recommend getting it when it's on sale, say.. 5 bucks at most.

You now exist only in a 2D paper world, the concept of the third dimension is as alien to you as mastering the space-time continunum of the fourth is to us. Fear not that a single drop of water may destroy everything you hold dear and instead embrace your ability to rotate your collaged environment, to progress through its many nuances. "Progress to what?" I hear the cries rain out... maybe the goal you seek is a sacred grail, tales of which are mentioned only in hushed tones - an origami crane, the untold, abject horror of your realisation at the presence of a henceforth unknown dimension that can be grasped by the folding of your corporeal bodies.

There is no turning back, a new world awaits.