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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is a thematic puzzler, which has you playing a small man whose only interest in life is pies.  It may sound simple enough, but as you work your way through all the levels in the game, you will be left spinning with all the cloning, recording and jumping that you will perform to finish the game.  It is simple and strange, yet highly rewarding for those with patience.

As stated before you play a man by the name of P.B. Winterbottom, an odd fellow who cannot stop himself from eating pie.  His whole existence seems to be wrapped around finding and eating pies.  However, during his search for pies, he causes a problem with time, and now P.B. Winterbottom finds himself with the ability to clone himself, allowing for him to grab out of reach pies.  Sure, the story is pretty simple, but it is the devious nature of the puzzle that will keep you coming back.

Yes, there are numerous levels, each progressively getting harder than the last.  While you are a simple man, with the ability to ingest massive quantities of pie, you do have some powers at your disposal.  For one, you can clone yourself.  The cloning process is necessary, and becomes an integral part in finishing some of the levels that you will be tasked with collecting pie.

Level design is sparse, but stylized, with the game world being designed after an old turn of the century film, complete with film grain, and those little text cards that you would find in a silent movie.  The levels are normally a single screen, or a screen that might scroll up a bit, and of course, littered with switches, jumping pads and all kinds of other little mechanisms to help or hinder Winterbottom in his chase for more pie.

As you work your way through the multiple levels, there is a bit of difficulty creep that comes into play towards the end of Winterbottom.  Some of the levels are incredibly difficult, and will have you possibly consulting an FAQ, unless you are a savant or CalTech grad.  There are some challenge levels that you can unlock, and they are a lot of fun, if you enjoy mental torture.  I say that in a good way if you like difficult puzzle challenges.

All in all, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is a fun little puzzle game that is filled with charm and devilishly clever puzzles.  Sometimes, it feels a little barren in its level presentation, but it never gets lost in what it wants to be and at a $5.00 price point on Steam, it is a steal for the amount of fun you will find in the game.  The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom gets 4 out of 5 Aeropausonauts.
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