This puzzle platformer is just bad. Too bad such a promising fictional world ended up as this...
The gameplay is pretty straight forward: it's a 2d side-scrolling platform game, complete with jumping and climbing and crawling. You can only interact with items appearing in your straight line view. There are puzzles involving stealth (sneak past enemies, or sneak up and disable them), puzzles involving crate sliding and stacking, etc. There are some full-screen minigame puzzles. But everything you do in the game is a basic example of each of these things -- there just isn't any interesting twists or flair. None of the puzzles are particularly "Doctor Who-y".
There's decent spit-and-polish on the graphics and audio of the Vita version, and it's less buggy than the PS3 version. But ultimately, it's still buggy, and bland. Some of the levels have really terrible design -- including making you wait in spots for, literally, minutes at a time without moving. Wheeee! You get no hints, and some of the puzzling is pretty obtuse or at least really tedious. Overall.... well.... yuck.
The Good:
* Cut scenes, menus, etc. are generally well done and look good
* Good voice acting, and pretty good music
The not-so-good:
* Some really terrible puzzle/level design
* The 2d platforming is really slow moving and clunky
* Some bad bugs involving bad collision detection, or random deaths Overall, it's just boring... It feels like this game started with a big budget, and at some point mid-development, that budget was pulled to zero and some poor soul had to finish the game by themselves.