Since every other games blog has written about this game(click on picture at left to play), I figured I had to as well. This game is a maze-like escape game which reminds me a lot of the Shift game from Armor games and by no coincidence either. It is built quite like the shift series where you are stuck in a maze and have to find the exit. Like shift, you also have a special physics based power – in this case its the ability to rotate the level 90 degrees with the Z and X buttons. However, if your not careful, this may cause unwanted objects to fall on you.

When you rotate, the heavy object besides you is now on top of you and will crush you, the spikes that were to your left are now under you and you will meet an untimely death falling on to them. So while rotating the room is a great and needed ability to win, you need to be careful as to how to use it. I was a bit upset initially at this game because it didn’t have an easy instruction page link that told me how to rotate the room. I had to push a large number of buttons before I found the ones to control the game-play mechanism. The keys to move were easy enough to find as the arrow keys are usually the first ones that people try. However, lacking an instruction page that tells you how to rotate the room may make a few impatient people come to the conclusion that this game is impossible to beat as you cannot advance past the first level without rotating the room somehow.

Another thing is that unlike shift where each level had a defined door that you had to get to in order to beat the level, this one is kind of like one big level. In the second room, I didn’t see a way out and it took me a while to figure out that I had to jump into one of the boxes to go to the next real level. This lack of a constant goal on each level takes away from the game a bit, at least to me.

But, for these two nagging complaints, this was a great game. It wasn’t as good as Shift, but its still much better than most of the portal clones made. The mechanics of the game work very nicely and the Physics of the spin are fluid as objects act as they would in real life. There’s also enough run and jump mechanics in the game to make it a game of not completely rotating. The game also keeps track of your progress and how many rotations and moves it took you to get out of a certain room. This way you can compete with friends as to who found the easiest way out of a certain room with the least number of rotations.

Altogether the puzzle aspect and the game-play are excellent, the lack of instructions and a door for the end of each level is a little disappointing but should not keep you away from the game because you’ll be missing out a lot if you don’t play. Its good enough to keep you busy for a few hours.

Text hints and Never end walkthrough:

Hints and Walkthrough

I am looking for a video walk-through on youtube for this game, if you know of one, please email me at webmaster[at]flashninjaclan.com with the title “Neverend Walk-through” please.

Other games worth a look:

Escape the freaky deaky room

Billy Genocide

Tags: End, Never

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