The Pedestrian popped out last night, and it oozes promise.
It’s definitely one of those ‘if only I’d thought of that’ ideas. Every puzzle starts with you stepping back and figuring out how to stitch the level together, though the transitions between areas are so smooth I’m loath to call them levels. You flit between paper, roadsigns and digital screens, not knowing where you’ll pop up next.
The doors into each panel have little semicircular nodes next to them, which can be connected to their corresponding halves. Entering connectey mode punts your character back to the beginning of that section, though, so you need to plot your route in advance. I can’t comment on whether the puzzles will hold up later on, but the presentation is so good I reckon they’ll be worth meandering through regardless.
It’s all so crisp and well thought out. Like how opening the menu pans to a CRT monitor lurking somewhere near the bottom of the screen, or how the world rumbles by, out of focus, in the background. Developers Skookum Arts have made something very far from pedestrian. Hur hur.
You can grab the game with a 10% launch discount on Steam or GOG for £14/$18/€15.
