One nice addition to the game are the co-op levels and multiplayer mode. You pay little attention to the background, and there may not be much going on or much movement, but it definitely contrasts well with the blackness of everything in the foreground. A nice touch in the game is that the background reflects which of the four times of day you are playing, the night levels feature lots of dark blues and you will see reds, yellows and oranges representing the rising and setting of the sun. The game has a rather unique look to it (unless you happen to have played LIMBO Achievements, to which it has a resemblance), with the blackened clones and black paths playing foreground to a beautiful coloured background. The different levels also each have three unique missions to complete, whether its to save a certain amount of clones or to explode all the level's bombs, you'll be wanting to come back to the levels over again to try and complete them all, and seeing as they don't have to be done in one go this is fairly achievable. Each of the days have 40 levels each that generally have a similar difficulty line, but the bonus worlds, each having 10 levels to complete, have a slight difficulty spike. While levels generally get longer and harder as you get further into the game, there doesn't seem to be any puzzle you can't get past. This is a game where you'll be met with numerous deaths over and over again, but rather than putting you off, it instead motivates you to finish the level and beat the puzzles in front of you. There's something new to get past in each level, so there are plenty of reasons and motivations to keep playing through the different levels. The fun and satisfaction comes from managing to overcome the next obstacle in your path, whether that is through using a shrink power up to get through small gaps, or growing larger and multiplying to weigh down a pipe to make it break. There are a lot of places where you can be crushed, squashed, sliced and meet your death in various other ways. This means that even the worst puzzle solver out there has an infinite amount of attempts to make their way to the end. Luckily the majority of the levels feature generous checkpoints, normally occurring in between the more difficult obstacles. The levels are mostly fast paced, with some having to be completed in one go. The pickups mostly do help you with your puzzles though, offering you a shrinking power up when you need to get through a tight space, and a rolling power up when you need to spin over a deadly gear.īigger, smaller, spinning, cloning, it's your choice! Whether it is collecting a pickup that adds an extra five or six clones for you to guide through, or one that speeds up the screen, there's a lot of variety to keep it entertaining, but not so much you get confused. Their abilities are simple but interesting, and definitely add a much needed excitement to the game. Not all the pickups will help you though, and this means the game keeps you on your toes as you need to be looking ahead of the level at what is coming to see whether or not you need the item. You aren't given any introduction to these pickups, although a quick scroll through the start menu explains briefly through pictures, but they are mostly obvious as you pick them up. In addition to the speed pacing, you will encounter various pickups as you fly through the levels. You use this to navigate through whatever the various levels throw at you, as well as racing against the screen which will cause death if you don't keep ahead of it. Apart from using the directional stick to move about, your main focus will be on the A button, which holding or pressing it makes you fly, and letting go causes you to fall. It is a very easy game to jump into and the controls consist mostly of one button. These serve as bonus levels of sort, unlocking only when you complete earlier levels from the first two days. In addition to the dawn, dusk, noon and night areas of the two days, there are also two additional worlds named Doomsday and Daydream.

These two days act as the worlds that you explore, being subsequently split into the different times of the day for the sublevels. While there is no story as such to follow, something which the game could have benefited from, your journey takes places over two days. BADLAND is a game with a very simple concept, which sees you guiding a clone through various levels trying to avoid the obstacles and objects in your path.

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