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wraggster
April 3rd, 2012, 00:06
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/04/fractured42.jpg (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/02/getting-the-best-of-both-worlds-in-fractured-soul/)Fractured Soul's release status may be in question, with Endgame Studios tentatively planning (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/07/fractured-soul-dev-looking-to-nintendo-eshop/) to put it on the 3DS eShop in two parts, but it's worth hoping the game finds its way to players. The side-scroller takes one clever DS-friendly mechanic -- parallel worlds, one on each screen, that the player can jump between at any time -- and then cranks that to every possible extreme, to challenge and/or punish the player.

The main gimmick is easy enough to understand, and the first few levels ease you into it nicely. Two side-scrolling environments exist in parallel, one on each screen, but they're slightly different from one another. There might be a bridge on the top screen where there's a gap on the bottom screen, or a wall in place on one screen that isn't on the other.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/02/getting-the-best-of-both-worlds-in-fractured-soul/