
The Time Factory
Your mission will take you far from home, to distant planets where your
courage, grit, and skill will be tested. But there is a place within the Time
Factory itself where you can prepare to meet these challenges.
As you go around the Factory’s inner circle you will find three doors.
These lead to the Locker Room, the Shop, and the Theater.
Locker Room
Here you assemble and customize your team to make it your own
by choosing the look you want for yourself and your mates. You can
choose your team’s uniforms, footwear, headgear, colors, and markings.
Even better, you can make yourself taller, shorter, thinner, or fatter. You
can even make your head, ears, and feet bigger or smaller! You can also
equip any new sweepers or weapon upgrades purchased at the Shop.
Shop
This is where you buy and sell weapons and items. You’ll also come to
Jimmy’s Shop to take on challenges. Select the “Talk to Jimmy”
option to see what’s available. Rank-up Exams are
challenges you have to complete to continue in
the game; other minigames are
just for fun and allow you to hone your skills
and get more medals and equipment!
Theater
Go here to view all the medals you have won in
the game. As you collect more medals, you’ll
unlock movies and artwork showing the heroic
Sweepers in action, as well as some rare behind-
the-scenes footage of life at the Time Factory.
Gathering Resources
You already know about collecting trash to shoot at enemies, but you
can gather other resources on your mission that will add to your
success. The following are some examples.
Time Crystals
Milk
Coins
These are precious seconds that have
congealed into crystals. Gather three of
any crystal type and you can activate
the associated Time Control.
On your mission you’ll find that
some crates contain a milk carton.
To restore your health, break open
the crate and get the milk.
In some places you can sweep up gold,
silver, or copper coins. They won’t give
you Time Controls, but you can use
them to buy new weapons and other
gear at the Shop in the Time Factory.