This reminds me of a game/mod (called “Prometheus” IIRC) where you had to complete objectives within a fixed amount of time in a manner impossible to do alone, with guards to kill and multiple switches to press at the same time to open a door… but all you had for help was yourself, in five copies.
The game would basically let you play the first copy, end, play the second copy while the first played out what you had done previously, then the third while the first two kept repeating what you recorded, and so on, and then you could go back and re-do earlier copies to account for new actions taken by the later copies, all culminating in one big five-minute match between You^5 VS (Causally) Impossible Level. Think Portal 2 coop but with time-traveling copies of yourself.
This reminds me of a game/mod (called “Prometheus” IIRC) where you had to complete objectives within a fixed amount of time in a manner impossible to do alone, with guards to kill and multiple switches to press at the same time to open a door… but all you had for help was yourself, in five copies.
The game would basically let you play the first copy, end, play the second copy while the first played out what you had done previously, then the third while the first two kept repeating what you recorded, and so on, and then you could go back and re-do earlier copies to account for new actions taken by the later copies, all culminating in one big five-minute match between You^5 VS (Causally) Impossible Level. Think Portal 2 coop but with time-traveling copies of yourself.
Perhaps some of the inspiration came from those?
This in turn reminds me of a wonderful platformer, Company of Myself