Cut and Paste, an IGF China 2010 finalist, is a sort of graphic adventure with none ofthe conventional tropes of the genre.
You control a little pencil-drawing of a character who moves left to right, sidescroller style, through a series of 'flipbook' animation pages. You can stop the animation at any point, and 'go back' as many pages as you wish. Periodically, colored items appear; you may 'cut' these with a mouseclick to add them to your inventory, and later 'paste' them into a page.
You encounter obstacles at times that will kill you (no problem, just back and try again), with inventory items usable to solve the problem. Quite often, there are multiple solutions to a problem, with a branching narrative as a result (but quickly closing back to the main storyline, since all 'pages' are predrawn).
Puzzle solutions are fairly arbitrary, so there's a lot of trial and error; but the look and feel of the game is charming, and the originality of its UI interesting.
