SkyTime

Genre: First-Person Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

SkyTime is a First-Person Perspective Platformer, where the focus is all on speeding through tricky levels while getting shot at by turrets. To help you on your journey, you’ll have a time-manipulating watch and a remote-control boomerang wrench… I swear I did not just make that up.

The watch is the star of the show here, and the way it works is not quite what you might expect. Using the watch slows down time for everything but you, but it does a bit more than that. See, whether it’s a fluke of game design or how air resistance works when you slow down time, falling becomes slowed down too, meaning that slowing down time is the only way to cross long gaps, and it can be a lifesaver if you’re trying to make a tricky jump.

Slowing down time of course also makes it easier to pick off turrets before they can take you out, aim a jump for a moving platform, or race to a location before something happens there. To keep players from abusing this, the thing will need to reload after a short bit of use, requiring you to better judge when to use it.

The gameplay here is surprisingly fun, wrench stuff notwithstanding – it’s your sole weapon, and the thing is awkward to use. However, that complaint aside, there’s a good variety here, a good amount of challenge, and actually moving around in the game feels fun. It also feels extremely unpolished. This game definitely gives the sense that its designers somehow stumbled on something really good and did the best they could to work with it, but that the project was lacking the proper funds, time, or talent to really work on bringing this idea into a full, professional product.

This lack of polish definitely shows in the presentation, which is… kinda’ hilariously bad. The game’s story doesn’t really make sense (and I mean come on… a remote control boomerang wrench?), narration that sounds like one of the programmers recorded it on a cheap microphone, and graphics that are somewhere between laughably bad and outright unfinished.

Still, despite SkyTime being really rough, it still manages to be fun, unique, and have enough variety that it should be worth a look, so long as you can overlook its very apparent flaws.

tl;dr – SkyTime is a First-Person Platforming game that has you slowing down time to get through various fast-paced platforming challenges, and it’s surprisingly fun and original. It is also extremely unpolished. It’s still worth playing, but be warned that this game feels all-around rough and incomplete.

Grade: B-

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