No Time to Explain Review

Posted: 6 months ago.

Overview

No Time to Explain is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a man chasing his future self through time. As the game evolves you must progress to solve time puzzles and complete platforming challenges.

The game features time travel, time paradox effect, and alternate time-lines. It starts pretty strange but gets ever more confusing and absurd as you go. The side-scrolling running, shooting and jumping is consistent throughout, along with using a huge laser as an unusual means of propulsion.

Details

Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN

Release Date: 17/06/2015

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation.

Developer: @tinyBuild

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Commitment

Duration: This game will take between 2 hours and 4 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs

Does not offer in-game purchases, 'loot boxes' or 'battle/season passes'.

Age Ratings

Rated PEGI 16 for frequent scenes of arcade-style violence featuring blood or gore, and sustained depictions of death or injury. Violence is typical of a platform-style arcade game, with moderate blood and gore shown throughout including scenes of decapitated corpses.

This game has been rated ESRB TEEN.

Accessibility

Accessibility for this game is as follows:

System Settings

The Wii U has some limited settings, such as disabling rumble and selecting mono audio. Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators. PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping). Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games... read more about system accessibility settings.

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