Entwined cover art

Entwined

A dual-stick coordination game testing split-brain control of two avatars at once.

Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
Match your experience?
EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    7/10

    Steering two characters on separate sticks simultaneously is the whole test

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    0/10

    No opponent - only flowing obstacle lanes

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    1/10

    Patterns repeat predictably within each lifetime

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    2/10

    Little to solve beyond reading upcoming gate colours

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

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Game details

Released
2014
Developer
Pixelopus
Platforms
PS3, PS4, Vita
Modes
Co-operative
IGDB critics
69/100
IGDB users
60/100
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