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Just completed my first run through Osmos though I'll be playing random levels for some time. I really liked the force levels and Epicycles 3 in particular. But then as a young kid I'd sit on the floor moving paper cutouts of planets, moons, multi-stage rockets and lunar landers. (Yeah, we all had o...

And that was before I'd played through the Ambient Impasse levels. Another great variation. Insane genius

I'll be interested to try some random seeds of these.

Thinking about multiplayer a little more, co-op would also be an option. The question would still remain as to whether there would be enough people that would want to play it that way to legitimise time spent overcoming all the difficulties involved in synchronising so many physical objects. But I d...

I'm trying hard to imagine epicycles in the 3rd dimension as suggested. What perspective would you be looking at it from? Usually a successful conversion to 3D involves taking the characters and gameworld and transplanting them into a different play mechanic. But there's no rules, only exceptions. A...

I found the Ferax to be quite hard. In the end it became one of the few levels which I had to keep replaying with time slow down at critical points and develop a pattern for. I wound up with a pattern which had me approaching the Ferax with slightly greater mass a couple of times early causing it to...

http://resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/review-osmos/ I have to admit that apart from an obsession with Battlefield Bad Company and BF 1943 online and a dalliance with World of Goo I really haven't been playing enough games lately :) So perhaps I don't have the wider perspective of this reviewer bu...