Danny wakes from his mental explorations if he falls off the level, is touched by a monster, or fails to stop a timer, but the C.R.U.S.H. device reinserts him at the start of the level or the last checkpoint Danny passed.
Given the clear benefits of regular physical activity (such as reduced risks of cardiovascular disease and obesity, as well as other benefits including those related to mental health), exploration of the reasons that adolescent girls give for not taking part in team sports may be particularly valuable for enhancing later rates of participation.
But it is also an exploration of mental illness, failed romance and one man's battle with religious faith.
The novel's exploration of mental health issues is particularly poignant when you consider that Plath killed herself a month after the initial UK publication.
Neuroscientists say that a connectome could give them myriad insights about the brain's function and prove particularly useful in the exploration of mental illness.
The comedy and satire of Nina Conti (trained by Ken Campbell) or The Great Puppet Horn, the wildcard impro of Boris and Sergey, Theatre Témoin's exploration of mental health The Fantasist and Blind Summit's postmodern The Table were highlights.
His last commission for the Edinburgh International festival, the 2004 hit The Wonderful World of Dissocia, dramatised the consciousness of a woman with a dissociative disorder - and this exploration of mental breakdown seemed perfectly natural from a writer notorious for his studies of deviance, perversity and the darkest recesses of the human mind.
It turns the play into a feverish exploration of mental illness, whether it's Cumming on TV monitors as the three hallucinatory witches, Cumming as Macbeth, desperately trying to process the horror of his own dark deeds, or Cumming as Lady Macbeth, dealing with the OCD torments of that damned spot.
Dominic Cooke, the new artistic director, has declared that he wants his theatre to break free from the tyranny of social realism, to explore an experimental tradition - he cites Pirandello and Beckett as beacons - and has nailed his colours to the mast with The Wonderful World of Dissocia, a logic-busting, image-stuffed exploration of mental disturbance.
In February she is back in the UK to conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), first in Basingstoke and then in the Changing Minds weekend at the Royal Festival Hall, which is placing the music of Schumann centre stage in its exploration of mental illness and the arts.
