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Echochrome is a puzzle video game developed by Sony's JAPAN Studio and published By Sony Computer Entertainment.

Thanks to the Playstation store and Xbox Live Arcade, many puzzle games can be created with a privileged access to players. This is the case of Echochrome, puzzle genius at its purest form.

Here, the game involves a simple mannequin in what seems to be the simplest most basic environment, black and white shapes. But here's the whole magic of the game. Based on Oscar Reutersvard's impossible constructions and M.C. Escher's artwork, you'll have to bring your mannequin from point A to point B in geometrical, yet impossible, worlds.
Contrary to many games, you won't control the mannequin but the environment. You'll manipulate the camera to obtain different angles. For example, your mannequin won't be able to cross a platform if there's a hole in the middle but if you change the camera in a way that the hole can't be seen (covered by a pillar or rotating the platform); your mannequin will do just fine. This offers thousands of possibilities as to how to move the camera so your mannequin will move here and not there or will fall in this particular spot, etc.

Echochrome offers a unique and new experience to the puzzle genre and proves that you don't need a lot of details and colors to have fun. In addition, and one of the main selling points of the game, you'll be able to share your own created worlds via internet. In other words, there will be new content and new puzzles added every day.

	Ps3 Rank : 82% (by 8 magazines) Review (8) | Preview (2) |
	Psp Rank : 75% (by 1 magazine) Review (1) |
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