What’s down overtoads?
Mind my with messing been really has game this and, here Ryan.
Sorry about that, it’s just this game.
It has infiltrated my mind and left me a little mixed up.
I mean, last night I kissed my dog goodnight and took my girlfriend for a walk.
This game will have that kind of effect on you.
Whatever you think you know about the world is going to be tested.
Echochrome for the PS3 is one of those games that makes you question everything.
Which way is up and which is down?
These kinds of questions are not relevant in the world of Echochrome.
Echochrome is a puzzle game that is both very unique and both very challenging.
See, the goal in echochrome is to have your mannequin make it to all the shadows that
are around the stage.
Simple right, well not quite.
The puzzles look like they were designed by Oscar Reutersvard, after he came home drunk
one night.
There are holes and gaps and disjointed staircases.
It would be impossible to actually get anywhere in one of these stages.
But this is where the unique aspect of the game comes into play.
See, in the world of echochrome, if you don’t see it, it does not exist.
You are in control of the mannequin, but rather you are in control of the world.
The mannequin can only do two things: walk and stand.
So it is up to you to create a path for him to walk.
You do this back rotating the world around the mannequin.
If there is a hole that is blocking your way, you turn the world to block it out of view
and if you don’t see it, it is not there.
Or if you need cross a gap, turn the world so the path connects and you have a path.
This changes how you need to look at the world because the answer is not obvious and it will
make you use different areas of your brain.
The puzzles start off simple enough, teaching you to think in this new way but soon the
worlds will start to hurt just to look at, let alone try to solve them.
The style fits the game perfectly.
The black and white art is a simple as possible but it is all that it need.
More important than the style is the music.
The game has one of the best soundtracks.
The classical music is the perfect background music for these tough puzzles.
Could you imagine being deep in thought with different music.
Doodle doodle doodle doodle do.
Doodle doodle doodle doodle dee.
Nah, that is a no go.
But with this soundtrack, you can feel yourself channeling the genius of a past... genius.
You can just imagine Mozart listening to this while becoming frustrated by these puzzles.
The game is also always growing, with user generated content and new puzzles being released.
I have been playing this for a while and haven’t even scratched all this game offers.
This was the first game I ever bought off the Playstation Network and it is still one
of my favorites.
It is so unlike anything else out there.
Combining the tough puzzles with the very creative gameplay style, and mixing in the
outstanding soundtrack, this game can not be described.
The only way you can really understand the greatness of this game is by playing it yourself.
I promise once you get a feel for the game, you will become hooked.