Pivot Pilot

Just completed the first testing facility and want to share some early thoughts. If you like [b]Super Meat Boy[/b], then you are likely to love this one too. These two have many similarities (in a good way), but Pivot Pilot adds refreshing unique gameplay elements, as the title suggests. In addition to the player character, you control a robotic arm by rotating each of its three segments. The robotic arm is used to transport the player character to otherwise unreachable places where he can hit switches and such. Levels are finished by navigating the tip of the arm to the goal. Don't be fooled, it is not as easy as it sounds. Concentration is required to pass the puzzles. The level design is clever and provides a real challenge with equal satisfaction. Sometimes you really need to rush and get that jumping sequence perfectly executed. There is no blaming the controls: you died - your fault. And speaking of dying, that is going to happen often. Luckily, the soundtrack is so amazing th...

Imagine playing QWOP with your left hand (except QWASZX) and Super Meat Boy with your right hand. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Right hand is traditional platformer (with lots of traps). Very much like a less-frenetic Super Meat Boy, although some levels Left hand controls a robot arm. There are three joints on the robot arm. You control each joint with one combination of keys. (QW, AS, and ZX). One key rotates clockwise, the other counter-clockwise. (The robot stays completely stationary if you aren't hitting a key, so there's none of QWOP's floppiness to compensate for. It's *usually* fairly forgiving other than "er, that's not the piece moving I meant to.") The robot arm has a sphere at the end. Sphere cannot touch a wall or traps or it breaks. Sphere is the only part of the robot that interacts with anything - this means the platformer dude can jump on top of the sphere. So: you control two characters, one per hand. You're going to be operating them and needing to coord...

I absolutely recommend this game! I usually don't play games like this so I was a bit cautious about it, but it got me HOOKED and surprised how addicting it was! Some levels took me forever to complete but when I did, it was INSTANT SATISFACTION! If I have to come up with some negatives I would probably say don't get frustrated on the robots controls! It takes a while to fully master it and when you do, NOTHING is going to stop you! Unique gameplay, great art and awesome music alone should be the reason to get this game! Buy this game if you're up for the challenge. ;) I did a quick stream of this game if you want to check it out: https://www.twitch.tv/bearwithus/v/112899305

I dislike how the level design combines long mundane parts with quick bursts of skill. If you look at the GOAT difficult platformers, either the entire level has a consistent difficulty or there's not much leadup to the hard parts, making the game more interesting throughout. You also usually checkpoint more often. In Pivot Pilot, I felt like I was often going through a pretty long level and ended up failing a hard part, then doing it all again. Another major issue I have is the occasional "no way to know that except by dying" elements. For example, a fourth saw that has to be mid-air jumped right after three saws that you have to drop past. There's really no way to read this except through sheer luck, and when you fail you have to do allll of the level again (which exacerbates the first issue). Just one of several examples in the game. In general, there's not enough of a telegraph and many levels are virtually impossible to sightread. I've always preferred level design where it feel...

Such a cool game! Challenging, good looking, awesome soundtrack and I love the robo-arm! <3

*dies 12,654 times on Test Chamber 1-10* *sees that there are 3 more sets of test chambers after that* *cries* Sweet merciful Lord...this game is the platformer equivalent of Octodad. A very interesting mechanic, with an intentionally frustrating control scheme...and it is punishingly difficult. With your left thumbstick, and your A and X buttons (360 controller), you control a platformer character, jumping around through various tricky obstacles. Nothing too new here. What makes Pivot Pilot different is that you also control a mechanical arm with the right thumbstick, the bumpers, and the triggers. You use this to help move your character around, and to touch the goalpost at the end of each level. The bulb on the end is extremely fragile, though...so if you touch anything else it shatters, and you lose. Sometimes you can't see both of your people on the screen at the same time. Sometimes you don't have time to "tread carefully" with the complicated arm movements. But you always hav...

Great game, just be prepared to die! Alot!

Surprisingly a good game. Challenging. I only have an hour in as of writing this review but i barely made it like 11 levels in. It's super hard and makes you want to use the bathroom even longer than you anticipated because "I NEED MUH WINS" 5/7 would recommend but i also don't recommend because i only have 11 levels in after an hour.

I really like this game actually. Found it on redit! before it released and wanted to try it from there, so I bought it couple days after release. Just now got around to trying it lol and it is well worth it. I have to say that the controls aren't all that intuitive it will take a little bit to get used to but it is a pretty unique game premise for a puzzle game so I think that would be unavoidable. If you like puzzle games that you can spend some time here and there playing then this just might be for you. overall I'd give it 8 out of 10, definitely worth the money.

This game brought me back to 90's. I liked the game a lot. I got good wibes when passing some challenging levels. Feels good. Musics fits really great to this awesome pixel art, also character movement and robot hand handling feels so polished. I really love the level design on this game and some of the mechanics are absolutely insane. Definetely looking forward what the creator design next.