<p>NOON is an erratic game of well-timed taps that encapsulates what it's like trying to keep up with time.</p><p>It starts by showing you a clock, the hand of which is spinning around it rather fast. At the top of this clock is a marker signifying noon. "Tap the clock when it hits noon," instructs the game's main menu.</p><p>You do, and then you're playing the game before you even realise it.</p><p>You get a point for each time you tap the clock when it hits noon. It's easy to be too early or too late - this is all about timing, after all.</p><p>But that one clock only takes up a quarter of the screen. As you progress, another clock is added for you to tap, and then another, and another.</p><p>Yes, the real challenge doesn't begin until you have four clocks to tap when they each hit noon. And yes, they all hit noon at different times, the clock hands spinning at different speeds.</p><p>Then the clocks rotate so that noon is on the left, then the bottom. This subtle rotation is enough to completely throw you off when trying to concentrate on four clocks at once.</p><p>You can't abandon any of them either. Next to each clock are four circles, one of which will disappear every time the hand does a full circle. If the clock loses all its circles - meaning you didn't tap it at all - then you lose.</p> … Read more
