A game by Do Better Games for Xbox 360 and WP7, originally released in 2012.
Like many puzzle-oriented games, the action in
Pendulous starts out very simply, building slowly and introducing new obstacles and challenges along the way. At first, you’ll just be learning how to deal with pendulum motion, swinging your orb back and forth and then disconnecting to send yourself sailing through the air to the next grapple point as you make your way toward the goal. Eventually, you’ll need to string together multiple successful swings while avoiding obstacles, activating switches, and using the environment to your advantage.
At the outset, a tutorial level and 7 additional levels are open, which may be selected in any order. The escalation of difficulty is gradual from one stage to the next, so it’s best to complete them in sequence unless you’re having difficulties and wish to skip past a certain level. Eventually you’ll open up levels 8-14, as well as a hard mode. The hard mode sends you into mirror versions of the regular levels without any checkpoints, so this is reserved for players wishing to truly challenge their skills.
