This is frustrating, because a Braid comparison would've been a great shortcut to help me describe what The Misadventures ofP.B. There are times even with cerebral puzzle games like this when you just want to get stuck into the gameplay so, while Winterbottom is definitely very charming, it does occasionally ram that fact down your throat and make you want to retch.I'm Told The author of PB Winterbottom doesn't like his game being compared to Braid. When it works it’s fantastic, but there are plenty of places where it falls a bit flat. Or, rather, it is when you first start playing – the further progress the more overdone the presentation starts to feel and the more you notice how poor some of the humour is. Short limericks and bursts of poetry punctuate every level, expanding slowly on what’s happening to Winterbottom and weaving a sense of whimsy and mystery into what would otherwise be a straight-up platform game. OK, so the story doesn’t really make much sense when you stop to think about it, but it’s more about the way that it’s told rather than the actual content itself. Naturally, he has to save the day…after he’s eaten all the pies he can lay his mitts on.
While chasing a particularly tasty morsel he somehow ends up travelling through time, gaining the ability to make clones of himself at will and unleashing utter pandemonium on the world around him. The eponymous Winterbottom is no ordinary man though he’s a legendary and dastardly pie thief whose obsession with sweet pastry has got him all tangled up in trouble. Winterbottom? That moniker immediately hints as to the content. Titles like Quake or Half-Life could mean anything at all and could feasibly be names of budget Tetris clones, but The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, Winterbottom, Winterbottom.Īnd while we’re never ones to judge a book by the cover, there’s no denying that the Winterbottom title tells you a lot about what type of game this is something twee and lyrical and influenced by another era. There’s just something deeply funny about so much legalese protection being put around the word ‘Winterbottom’ in a dozen languages it kind of makes you think the whole thing is steeped in irony and sarcasm. Winterbottom for the first time, we had already decided it was going to be one of our favourite games of the year.īefore you start accusing us of taking bribes though, you should know that that’s purely because of the license agreement that fills the page when you start it up. We should confess that, even before we sat down to play The Misadventures of P.B. The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom Review Publisher: 2K Games
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