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The 1-Upper: N

POSTED: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:04 AM

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It's oldies week here at the 1-Upper. I was reading something about the top 100 Flash games looking for new stuff, and I came across and entry on N, which made me realize I completely forgot about it. It's been one of my favorite games for a long time, so I'm sorry, N, for being so neglectful.

N is a lot like the happy baby of the Flash version of Portal and the Fancy Pants Adventures series. You control a little ninja - though he looks a lot like that guy playing the flute that a lot of people have unfortunate tattoos of - whose mission, I suppose, is to collect little gold cubes. They kind of remind me of Energon cubes, but there aren't any giant robots about (and if you get this reference you are officially a dork, too). Collecting cubes gives you more time to solve each level, which mainly consists of you finding the switch to open the door blocking the way out. As you move ahead, of course, it gets tougher and tougher and things actually start to shoot at you. But the one thing that gets me about this game every time is the physics. It still amazes me that such a simple browser game can have what looks and feels like a fully realized physics engine.

Go play N here.

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