The aiming doesn’t always feel as tight as you’d hope it to be, which can lead to numerous occasions of missing the mark completely.
Whether you use a keyboard and mouse or a controller, your aim needs to be precise for a fairly small window of safety. Certain obstacles you encounter can only be burned and destroyed in order to proceed, so that calls for dousing yourself in flames or acid, igniting the barrier, and racing to put yourself out before being engulfed. Certain levels may see your hybrid gun swapped out for a sort of shotgun that blasts you forward in short spurts, while others may hand you both weapons to use simultaneously. While the game may only take in the range of three to four hours to beat, it remains fresh by changing the gameplay just enough to up the difficulty while still remaining somewhat familiar.
Where No Time to Explain succeeds particularly is in its variety of landscapes and challenges. It’s examples like these that make the game feel especially challenging, but also makes you wonder if the challenge is somewhat affected by perhaps wonky gameplay mechanics. At times, this can feel like a miscalculation on your part, but at other times it feels like a cheap death, especially after repeatedly being skewered on the same patch of spikes. Being on an incline when lifting off may instead send you hurtling into the ground, while timing a jump with the use of the gun may give you just the boost in height you need to reach a raised platform. The weapon’s beam acts as a propulsion system, except it seems to need the perfect angle and scenario to propel you at the needed velocity. Using your special hybrid weapon takes some getting used to.
While it starts out as navigating uneven terrain or reaching higher elevations, eventually it becomes a more complicated and precision-movement sort of affair. Every level has a warp portal at the end you are trying to reach, but the path becomes more hazardous as you proceed. As a laser, it’s useful for shooting down projectiles and dealing with the occasional bosses in standalone levels, but its main function is jettisoning you across the obstacles you encounter. Your main tool of the trade is a sort of laser gun - jetpack hybrid that propels you in the opposite way of wherever you’re pointing it. It’s an action platforming game that has you chase after your future self through time warps, strange universes, and alternate dimensions. This humorous insanity is No Time to Explain at its core. After explaining this, and, with a “No Time to Explain” thrown in, he is suddenly ripped from the house by a giant crab claw. The game certainly lives up to the motto of its title, as a peaceful time of dancing alone at home is interrupted by an explosion and your future self jumping through. No Time to Explain originally released as a flash game on Newgrounds in 2011, before making its way onto Steam and the Xbox One as Remastered edition.
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