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Advertised as "A Heroic Battle for Time and Space", Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space is a 3D third-person platform game developed by Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox on November 18, 2004.

Its prequel, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, was released for the Xbox in 2002.

Characters

In Blinx 2 the player controls either a Time Sweeper (a cat) or a Tom Tom (a pig) on their mission to prevent the end of the world by finding the 8 fragments of the all-powerful Big Crystal.

The Time Sweepers monitor time so they can sweep up rubbish on the ground to fire as ammo. Their enemies are Time Glitches (weird monsters) and the Tom Toms. They also must face the segments of the Big Crystal, when they mutate into bosses.

The Tom Toms are a rowdy bunch, who use guns, turrets, tanks and other traps (for example, a decoy which morphs into a Tom Tom to lure Time Sweepers away). Their enemies are the Time Sweepers, their K9-1000 dogs, and a few bosses.

Plot

The Big Crystal

The game starts off with the Tom Toms in a dark cave trying to steal the Big Crystal. Unfortunately, foolish Benito (leader of the Tom Toms) jumps on the crystal, and it breaks. They then run out and escape.

Then it cuts to a scene in the sky where the Time Goddesses talk about how valuable time is and that so few understand its true value. Then, back in Time Factory, an alert goes off that time energy is decreasing in all universes. The CEO is astonished when he realises that the Big Crystal broke and at that moment green Tom Toms come in ships into the Time Factory. This crash into the building chips off a large clock off the building threating to kill many Time Sweepers. Blinx suddenly pauses time and shouts "Hurry, Move it!" getting all Time Sweepers to safety. The Tom Toms get ID'ed as the Tom Tom Gang and a fight emerges, and when one Tom Tom fires a gun which shoots a bomb, Blinx slows time, and they all run to safety. Blinx then gets scratched by a rock. (This helps the user identify that it is Blinx.) When Blinx later shoots at a Tom Tom and they survive and heal, the Time Factory notices that they are invincible and they are part of the mother computer's core.

Things get worse when the whole Time Factory loses all power. A weird shadowed face appears on their screen and weird symbols appear below. The CEO suddenly realises it is the Ancient language of the Time Goddesses and gets the Time Sweepers to open the portal to the Ruins of time (with coordinates zero). He orders Blinx to go to the portal and save the day, but he refuses as he is still currently fighting the invincible Tom Toms. His fellow Time Sweeper tells Blinx he can't win. Blinx hurries off to the portal but a lot of his fellow Time Sweepers follow him in. In total 252 cats jump in the portal (250 named Time Sweepers, Blinx and the player).

The game begins

After the first cutscene, the player begins as a Time Sweeper. After some training from Jimmy the shopkeeper on how to play, the real game begins. In Time Sweeper's mission 1 you first have to blow down/open a door, collect batteries to operate a helicopter, and kill the stone monster by shooting at its chest while it's on the ground.

The game then goes to another cutscene, showing the Time Goddesses saying to their daughter, "Mina what are you going to do, now? They cut the string of time. We're afraid your wish cannot be granted." The game flashes back to the Time Factory Invasion, this time from Benito's point of view. Then it goes back to the face in the picture the CEO of the Time Factory saw, of Mina. Benito instantly falls in love with her. Mina asks Benito to find all the big crystal fragments before they—she does not say why, because by then the other Tom Toms wake up Benito. He shouts, "That dream was just getting good." They say that he is in the news as the Tom Tom Gang are invading the Time Factory, but the Tom Tom Gang aren't invading. They're on their island, relaxing. Benito laughs and goes off to get the big crystal fragments.

Carlos, the Tom Toms' shopkeeper, then trains the player to be a Tom Tom.

The final boss

After the final mission of the game, another cutscene plays. The Destroyer of Time then drops her pair of scissors. It crashes to earth and morphs into a giant red mutated demon. A sixth portal appears in the Time Factory which you enter for the final boss.

In the final level, the whole team of Time Sweepers are on a small island in A-000. On the island are 21 eggs which when near, turn into spiked monsers with blue barriers. The player must suck up the pause icons there to pause time, and shoot them with the bombs and food on the ground. Then the player must very quickly hit the scissor demon in the head with a bomb—if done too slowly, the scissor demon will attack, and a chunk of the island might come off. In a brief cutscene they find out the bombs don't work and they have to fire the Big Crystal now. It has no effect, so the player must beat more monsters with blue barriers to again retrieve their fragments of the Big Crystal.

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