Funky Lab Rat; not the greatest of game titles and it might not fill you with the greatest of hopes. However beneath the simple name you’ll find a complex and challenging puzzle game, with plenty of levels to keep even a seasoned puzzler amused.
You play as Diego, the aforementioned lab rat who has escaped from his cage and over the course of the initial simple levels develops the ability to control time and the objects around him. The powers are basic and quick to pick up, and by the time you get into the game proper you should be able to manipulate the time and environment in a multitude of ways.
The abilities, although limited, are quite useful, Diego can restart a level, skip to the next level, rewind time, pause time and while paused move around certain objects in levels. The restart and skip are obvious enough, allowing you to move past a level you are struggling on to try and earn some pills in the next, with the choice of going back to the original level later. The rewind is essentially only used when something goes wrong and you want to try again, although you can only rewind to your last pause. The pauses are limited, with this posing the challenge in the game. As a player you have to work out when you are going to use your pauses and what objects you are going to move and where to. Levels become more complicated when you have to pause during jumps, or while a certain part of the level is in motion.
