Echochrome: Echochrome is great, wulfshelmut obviously never played it ...
pixelsword
95% score
Having played Echochrome myself, I must say in the age of graphical prowess over gameplay, this mind-bender is so refreshing, ingeniously simple, and brilliant that that such a noteworthy title ought to be on all consoles. Yes, I said that: this title should be on all game consoles. The only game I can compare to Echochrome is Portal, and given the fact that Echochrome achieved the same level of puzzle-solving skill (certainly if not more so) I would say that is quite notable
The basis of Echochrome is to transverse a series of M.C. Esher-like stages adjusting the angle to preform one of the five rules of the game to allow advancement through the stages:1. Perspective traveling - When two separate pathways appear to be touching, they are touching.
2. Perspective landing - If one pathway appears to be above another, it is above another.
3. Perspective existence - When the gap between two pathways is blocked from view and the pathways appear to be connected, they are connected.
4. Perspective absence - When a hole is blocked from view, it does not exist.
5. Perspective jump - When the mannequin jumps, it will land on what ever appears beneath it.*Borrowed* With these five rules you can move your marching marionette through simple to increasingly impossible-looking stages. The stage design is brilliant in the fact that if you can "see" it, you can do it. The levels are numerous as they go from A to whatever (I only played a little as I wanted to write a review with the memory still fresh in my head). My one tiff with the game is that a little shading for the perspective landing would've been helpful. A lesson could be learned that if the core mechanics of creativity, control, and gameplay are adhered to closely, graphics will fall in line to what they really are: icing on the cake. ************************************************* I wish to make a comment: Wulfshelmut never even played the game. In Wulfshelmut's short, ignorant assumption, he said it was on a disc; it's a downloadable game. Had he played it, or owned a PS3, he would've known. His review is invalid and biased by fanboyism. This example of self-imbued know-it-all-ism is what is ruining the internet. In the information age, true seekers of knowledge and a greater understanding of the world around them are being mislead by for lack of a better word, evil and self-important men who for lack of accomplishing anything themselves will ruin the good name of others to make themselves or what they believe in look grander than what they really are. Such displays of ignorant chatter are disgusting and worthy of scorn.
