History VideoGame / Shift

The first game was released in 2008, and the entire series is available at Armor Games, Website/{{Newgrounds}} and Website/{{Kongregate}}. [[http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift Go here.]]

A GaidenGame by the name of ''Shift: Freedom'' has been released. It was initially exclusive to the [=iPhone=]. Additionally, an adaptation called ''Shifting World'' made by Aksys was be released in April 2012 for the 3DS.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Shifting and touching the arrows causes the screen to spin. Doors rotate halfway once the key is obtained. The lightbulb icon in 3 and 4 also spins.

* SequelDifficultySpike: Averted in the main sequels, but more than a few of ''Shift 3'''s player packs require an insane amount of precision jumping, sometimes verging into SomeDexterityRequired.

* KilledOffForReal: If you die in general, you simply start the level/room over, like in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia''. If you reach the Bad Ending instead, it's game over.

Truthfully, the company that's performing the experiment has actually [[spoiler:captured a father, mother and son to use them as test subjects to experiment on them in secret. As the series progresses, the family tries to escape.]]

The first game was released in 2008, and the entire series is available at Website/ArmorGames, Website/{{Newgrounds}} and Website/{{Kongregate}}. [[http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift Go here.]]

''Shift'' is a quadrilogy flash game series about test subjects that have to reach the exit, utilizing a power known as "shift." When the test subject shifts, they invert into the ground below them, making the white tiles the foreground and the black tiles the background. As the game progresses to sequels, new things are added such as tiles you can't shift on as well as arrows that shift gravity.

Recently, a GaidenGame by the name of "Shift: Freedom" has been released. It was initially exclusive to the [=iPhone=]. Additionally, an adaptation called "Shifting World" made by Aksys will be released in April 2012 for the 3DS.

* FakeDifficulty: An unintentional example. In Shift: Freedom, one of the levels is an otherwise fairly simple platformer, simply jump between a few pillars and avoid the spikes, no puzzle mechanics involved. What makes it hard is that the game itself has framerate issues and is very glitchy, and there is a high chance the timing of one of your jumps will not register, or you will hold on to the right key for what would have been long enough has the game not paused for a fraction of a second. This level is the first to have a hint that you can skip frustrating levels.

* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:The Good Ending of Shift 4]].

* LevelEditor: Introduced in Shift 2.

* PlotHole: Shift 1 and 2 end with [[spoiler:the player character either dying or escaping the facility]]. But somehow, in the ending of Shift 3 and the gameplay of 4 [[spoiler:those characters are still imprisoned and need to be rescued]].
** Considering this is a fictional world with MindScrew features, does this really come as a surprise?
* SecretCharacter: In Shift 3, you can unlock [[BlatantLies Mel Gibson]]. [[spoiler:Actually, [[VideoGame/FancyPantsAdventures Fancy Pants]].]]
* SequelDifficultySpike: Averted in the main sequels, but more than a few of Shift 3's player packs require an insane amount of precision jumping, sometimes verging into SomeDexterityRequired.

* ThatOneLevel: In ''Shift 2'', the level with the message, "Notice: This level is CPU intensive. If lag occurs, please upgrade your PC." And lag ''always'' occurs, making it difficult to make your maneuvers, and sometimes resulting in a crash. However, when you reach the fourth key, [[spoiler:more text is revealed, saying, "Joking again. :P Now, wasn't that annoying!?" And then it stops its fake "lag."]]

* ThatOneLevel: In Shift 2, the level with the message, "Notice: This level is CPU intensive. If lag occurs, please upgrade your PC." And lag ''always'' occurs, making it difficult to make your maneuvers, and sometimes resulting in a crash. However, when you reach the fourth key, [[spoiler:more text is revealed, saying, "Joking again. :P Now, wasn't that annoying!?" And then it stops its fake "lag."]]
* TimedMission: Every Shift game has a timer somewhere in it telling you how long you've been playing (and the game likes messing with you on this matter, too). In Shift 4, it says you have only "ten minutes" to complete each chapter, but [[SubvertedTrope this is a lie]] (you even get a medal for letting the timer expire). However, when Shift 4 gives you "two minutes" to get through three rooms [[spoiler:to reach the Good Ending]], it really ''does'' mean it.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: To beat the game, you have to, well, shift. And it is performed by [[CaptainObvious the shift key]].

Shift is a quadrilogy flash game series about test subjects that have to reach the exit, utilizing a power known as "shift." When the test subject shifts, they invert into the ground below them, making the white tiles the foreground and the black tiles the background. As the game progresses to sequels, new things are added such as tiles you can't shift on as well as arrows that shift gravity.

The series is available at Website/ArmorGames, Website/{{Newgrounds}} and Website/{{Kongregate}}. [[http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift Go here.]]

No relation to ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Shift'' or its sequel, ''Shift 2: Unleashed''.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome

* SpikesOfDoom

* KilledOffForReal: If you die in general, you simply start the level/room over, like in PrinceOfPersia. If you reach the Bad Ending instead, it's game over.

The series is available at Armor Games, Website/{{Newgrounds}} and Kongregate. [[http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift Go here.]]

The series is available at Armor Games, {{Newgrounds}} and Kongregate. [[http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift Go here.]]

** [[spoiler:Or, maybe they were recaptured. Then that patches up the plot hole.]]

* SecretCharacter: In Shift 3, you can unlock [[BlatantLies Mel Gibson]]. [[spoiler:Actually, [[FancyPantsAdventures Fancy Pants]].]]

No relation to ''NeedForSpeed: Shift'' or its sequel, ''Shift 2: Unleashed''.

Shift is a quintology flash game series about test subjects that have to reach the exit, utilizing a power known as "shift." When the test subject shifts, they invert into the ground below them, making the white tiles the foreground and the black tiles the background. As the game progresses to sequels, new things are added such as tiles you can't shift on as well as arrows that shift gravity.