There is an absolute abundance of flash games and flash game portals on the internet. The problem is that most of them are garbage with rehashed ideas of other games and no originality or depth whatsoever. Despite this, there ARE indeed some really great games to be found. The Company of Myself is one of them. The following is my attempt at getting you to play it!
The Company of Myself is at it's foundation a Platform/Puzzle game. Your object in each level will be to get to the green square. You will be using the arrow keys for this (surprise surprise!). Spacebar serves two functions, but once you get to the green square it will only take you to the next level.
I'm not going to bother explaining the entire game to you since it will become pretty obvious once you get through the first 10 or so levels. But I will explain to you what makes this game so crazy. You are literally in the company of yourself. At any time during a level, if you press the space bar, it will cause your character to disappear and go back to the beginning of the level. HOWEVER, there will a "phantom" you who will do EXACTLY what you did prior to pressing the space bar. For example!
Hmm, this platform is too high to jump over. SPACEBAR'D
The phantom walks up to the ledge exactly as I did prior to pressing spacebar. (After I landed of course!)
Nice! You can stand on top of your phantoms! They can also stand on you!
The phantom walks up to the ledge exactly as I did prior to pressing spacebar. (After I landed of course!)
Nice! You can stand on top of your phantoms! They can also stand on you!
You can do this any number of times up to the limit specified in the top left portion of the screen. On levels such as the one above it's quite amusing to just jump around and spam spacebar to watch all the little phantom jumping around to your exact motions. That gets old soon and before long you will want to actually progress through the game. LOL!
At times this game will require you to really think things through, as there will be things such as force-fields that your "present" character can pass through that your "phantom" cannot (as well as the reverse). I will leave the rest of the game for you to discover. It's also probably worth mentioning that the music really sets the mood (even if it's really repetitive).
Probably one of the greatest flash games I have ever played.
The Company of Myself