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Blinx: The Time Sweeper for Xbox Original
Blinx: The Time Sweeper for Xbox Original is a three-dimensional platform game in which you clean up time with a vacuum cleaner. Blinx the cat works for a time factory and travels to worlds where time crystals are causing trouble. You jump across canals, explore mines and find the time monsters disrupting an area. Rubbish becomes ammunition: you suck up objects and fire them back at enemies or obstacles.
Collecting crystals in particular combinations gives you time powers. You can pause, slow, accelerate or rewind the environment. The recording function lets you briefly work alongside a previously recorded version of yourself. A collapsed passage can become usable again, while a frozen hazard gives you room for a jump. Your supply is limited, so which crystals you collect determines which solutions you have available later.
The time limit for each level keeps running even when you change the world. You therefore need to defeat monsters and plan a route without hesitating for too long. Collected gold buys better equipment. You play this first Blinx adventure alone with a standard Xbox controller. The recording power is not a second-player option; the cooperative features of Blinx 2 do not belong to this edition.
Region and language
Our Xbox Original games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Blinx: The Time Sweeper for Xbox Original includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Microsoft Game Studios released Blinx: The Time Sweeper for the original Xbox in 2002. Japanese developer Artoon created the game. The company had been founded in 1999 by people including Naoto Ohshima and Yoji Ishii, who had previously worked at Sega. Blinx gave Microsoft its own platform character at a time when the new console was still building a library alongside shooters, racing and sports games.
The publisher presented time as a fourth dimension. This was not just a story device: players literally collected the resources used to rewind or temporarily alter their surroundings. The vacuum cleaner connected these puzzles to combat and clearing a level. You therefore considered not only the distance between two platforms, but also what had happened to those platforms shortly beforehand.
The sequel Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space later appeared on the same Xbox, changing the playable groups and multiplayer possibilities among other things. Those additions must be kept separate from the first game. This disc preserves the original combination of platform routes, a running clock and carefully chosen time powers. Later digital availability on other systems does not change the contents of the Xbox edition offered here.
Similar games for Xbox Original
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space expands the time powers and vacuum mechanics on Xbox Original. The sequel adds other playable groups and cooperation. The first Blinx remains a solo game about one cat and a strict clock. If you want to learn the foundations of the time system, this game offers a more tightly defined series of cleanup assignments.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Blinx let you alter time to overcome obstacles on Xbox Original. The prince mainly uses rewind within acrobatic routes and sword fights. Blinx first collects crystal combinations and applies several time powers to the world. His puzzle therefore often starts with choosing what to vacuum up, well before the jump itself.
Voodoo Vince and Blinx combine platforming with an unusual power on Xbox Original. Vince uses voodoo and hazardous situations to hurt opponents. Blinx instead changes the flow of time and turns rubbish into ammunition. Both require you to study the environment, but managing a limited stock of crystals and time powers remains a constant concern in Blinx.
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee uses two alternately controlled heroes to solve spatial puzzles on Xbox Original. Blinx has one protagonist, but a recorded version can briefly help. The difference lies in preparation: in Munch you choose which character performs each action; in Blinx you must record a sequence in time and then perform the missing part yourself.
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc and Blinx alternate jumps, combat and temporary abilities on Xbox Original. Rayman gains powers for particular enemies or passages. Blinx builds his own stock through crystals and combines it with vacuumed rubbish. Rayman places more emphasis on continuous action and scoring combinations, while Blinx more often asks you to plan which change to the world you need.
