ilomilo
Ilomilo is a puzzle game by Microsoft Game Studios and SouthEnd Interactive was developed. It was released on November 8, 2010 for Windows Phone and on January 5, 2011 for Xbox 360. However, you could use a so-called "secret " codes to download the game already on November 26, 2010.
Action
Ilo and Milo are two beings called SAFKAS who meet daily in a park. Every day they are looking each other in the park, every night they separate again. The obstacles that face them in the way of getting trickier and the park, consisting of rows of cubes, and more difficult to be traversable. Each chapter of the game corresponds to a day in the life of the two SAFKAS. The separation after the first day, for example, leads to the fact that the two many tears shed, so that the second level plays under water. In the last chapter the main characters decide to go at the end of the day, not their separate ways. They meet in a flying locomotive and leave the park.
In addition to the main story, there is a subplot that can be viewed by collecting fragments of memory. This tells the story of two people, Ilona and Milton, who write to each other and who want to meet in a park. At the end, they buy tickets for the Night Train and go away together.
Another subplot is told to the player by Sebastian, a helping minor character in the bonus levels. In these there are also small cameo appearances of the main characters other Video Game: Super Meat Boy, Machinarium and World of Goo.
Gameplay
The two main characters, Ilo and Milo start in each level separated and must find each other. Here, the player can switch at any time between the two figures, what he has to do, because puzzles are only solvable. The individual environments consist of rows of cubes, special cubes serve Ilo and Milo as a tool. So there is a flying cube, a cube that stretches out in different directions and with which one can overcome chasms and individual dice no function that can be placed anywhere. In each of the 49 Level 3 different colored SAFKAS are hidden, which must be collected in order to unlock the bonus level can. In two-player mode, the players take turns also, it can only play one player active. In the start menu of the Xbox games you also find a mini - game in which you Ilo and Milo controls simultaneously while they have to collect on moving platforms objects without falling over the edge. Additional chapters 5 & 6 will be available under the name Autumn Tale DLC, release date are not yet available for it.
Reviews
The game received at Metacritic 81 out of 100 points at 1UP 10/10 points, 8/10 from IGN, 9/ 10 of Euro Gamer ( and appointment as "Game of the Week" ) and 8/10 from Destructoid. In general, the imaginative level and the soundtrack of the game to be praised. The frequent crashes that had a complete freezing of the console result should have been resolved by a recent patch. The Windows Phone version of the game was nominated for the IMGA award.
Weblink
- Ilomilo official blog