Echochrome is a puzzle game created by Sony's Japan Studio and Game Yarouze. Gameplay involves a mannequin figure traversing a rotatable world where physics and reality depend on perspective. The world is occupied by Oscar Reutersvärd's impossible constructions. This concept is inspired by M. C. Escher's artwork, such as "Relativity". The game is based on the Object Locative Environment Coordinate System developed by Jun Fujiki—an engine that determines what is occurring based on the camera's perspective.
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2/10
Played the PS3 version on PS5 streaming.
Couple things here:
A. PS5 streaming is maybe good now? All the games I've been trying fun pretty well. I also have a weirdly good time imagining whatever PS3 I'm remotely connecting to turning on and spinning up my game like a jukebox.
B. God this game is cool. Just concept-wise. We are gonna have a black and white modern classical music only perspective based puzzle game. And put it on that shiny PlayStation 3. Just... good stuff.
3. It's sort of cool the state this game is in now that the network is off. There are like 400 user levels that have been archived for posterity (congrats to anyone on there... I'd be bragging about that on my resume and dating site profiles) and the UI is just sort of abstract on purpose. I love this damn thing. There's a few hundred puzzles just hanging out there waiting for ya.
Couple things here:
A. PS5 streaming is maybe good now? All the games I've been trying fun pretty well. I also have a weirdly good time imagining whatever PS3 I'm remotely connecting to turning on and spinning up my game like a jukebox.
B. God this game is cool. Just concept-wise. We are gonna have a black and white modern classical music only perspective based puzzle game. And put it on that shiny PlayStation 3. Just... good stuff.
3. It's sort of cool the state this game is in now that the network is off. There are like 400 user levels that have been archived for posterity (congrats to anyone on there... I'd be bragging about that on my resume and dating site profiles) and the UI is just sort of abstract on purpose. I love this damn thing. There's a few hundred puzzles just hanging out there waiting for ya.
Tuve un momento jugando uno de los primeros niveles en el que desenfoqué la vista y perdí la perspectiva completamente y los centros de los cubos parecían los exteriores y tardé unos segundos en ubicarme de nuevo, loquísimo
While I understand how this game is clever and unique, it's just not for me. I hated this game and even seeing the screenshot of it gives me some fobia (I don't know witch), and all that whiteness hurts my eyes.
Pretty damn cool. When the game genuinely works, it feels like you're playing an art piece that should be displayed in a museum. However, when it doesn't exactly work, it feels more like one of those shitty brain teaser toys that your relatives sometimes give you for Christmas. You know, the ones that are usually made out of wood and tend to rely on a frustrating gimmick you'd never know about unless told of. I still did enjoy this game (especially its soundtrack, god), but some bugs and very apparent jank kinda muddied the overall experience for me.
Pioneering tech demo of a game. 4 stars for the importance