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    The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Feb 17, 2010

    Enter a macabre and comical silent film world filled with mischief, time travel, and delicious pie. Record yourself and harness your time bending abilities to cooperate, compete against, and disrupt your past, present, and future selves. Winterbottom's debut misadventures present whimsical spin on the notions of time, space, and play.

    albedos_shadow's Winterbottom (Xbox 360 Games Store) review

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    A misadventure, but not a misstep.

    The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom has inevitably drawn comparisons to Braid, the indie darling otherwise known as Pretentious Metaphor-Fest. This isn't necessarily an unfair point, as both games feature mind-destroying out of the ordinary puzzles. P.B. Winterbottom is the story of the titular character, a dapper gentleman in a bowler and monocle. He is a pie thief by trade who, while chasing a giant monster pie, falls into a temporal rift that gives him the power to create clones of himself which he must interact with to steal all the pies in a level. You must use these clones to synchronize a complicated series of jumps and switches, all with a set amount of clones you can have during a level. While a couple will have you scratching your head, none of the puzzles are as frustrating and complicated as Braid's ridiculous levels. After finishing the main story levels, a series of challenge levels open up, asking you to finish levels under time and clone number restraints, really adding to the replay value.

    Where Winterbottom truly shines, though, is its atmosphere. The whole game is done in the style of a 1940's era silent cartoon, coupled with an amazing Danny Elfman-like score, and the end result is a very Tim Burton-esque vibe. The visuals and soundtrack are both amazing, and even more impressive once you consider how small of a team developed the game. Priced perfectly at 800 points, P.B. Winterbottom is well worth your time and your money.

    Other reviews for Winterbottom (Xbox 360 Games Store)

      Charming, Inventive, Short. 0

      Winterbottom is not the most like-able character. Stealing from orphans, flooding the local town, and setting fire to a bakery are just a few of this man's sins. For what, you may ask? Fucking pies! I mean, there are some things I would soil my integrity for (all of which involve Heidi Klum) but pies? Ah, but while pies lead to his damnation, they also represent his salvation. Given a second chance to correct his mistakes, a magical, time-bending super pie bestows upon P.B. the ability to go bac...

      13 out of 13 found this review helpful.

      The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Review 0

      This XBOX Live Arcade game has you assuming the role of PB Winterbottom a pie hungry thief whose only love in life is to steal and eat pies. You will be trying to capture a very elusive pie, but on the way you'll have to solve puzzle after puzzle to unlock other levels to get your closer to that pie.I  really like the graphical style they went with in this game. Almost entirely black and white with an old silent film type of feel to it. This is even further enforced with the mechanism of recordi...

      4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

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