N / N+

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www.thewayoftheninja.org/

N is a free puzzle platformer-type game with ragdoll physics for the PC. You play a ninja who has to cross a room, throw a switch and leave by the door. Sounds slmple, but the rooms are full of bad robots, mines, gun turrets and hard to reach places.

The gameplay is deceptively simple, but there's a real finesse to moving the ninja around, which you need to master to complete the harder levels. It also gives the game something of a hardcore element later on, as you'll die but know that if you'd jumped a little more slowly *there* and paused for a second *there* you'd have made it. It's seriously addictive, the Xbox version has an achievement for dying 1000 times and I was surprised when I got it the second time I played!

N+ is the name for the Xbox Live Arcade and upcoming DS and PSP ports of the game, with enhanced physics, graphics and extra baddies.