E309: Echochrome meets Braid for time-shifting PSP puzzler Echochrono
One of the most experimental concepts shown at E3 thus far, and yet another game quietly announced but not explicitly mentioned by Sony: a PSP followup to Jun Fujiki's Echochome, the Escher-esque PS3/PSN downloadable in which wireframe artist models traversed impossible constructions using tricks of perspective to bridge gaps and open paths.
This time, as the name implies, the trick isn't visual but temporal: like Braid and Yoshio Ishi's Cursor*10 web games, players will have to -- as seen above -- use versions of previous rewound playthroughs to advance characters in later playthroughs.
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LloydBoxcars
#1 – 5:18 PM June 3, 2009
Sounds like that "P.B. Winterbottom" game.
tresser
#2 – 7:34 AM June 4, 2009
there's a game called Chronotron that uses the same kind of time gimmick.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Scarybug/chronotron
gwax
#3 – 9:47 AM June 4, 2009
Sure took them long enough to make a real game derivative of Cursor*10's innovations.
Dungeonbrownies
#4 – 11:33 PM June 4, 2009
I agree with tresser, ive seen a game just like this before, except far lest costly to develop, much less hardware/software needed, and free. But the music is very very nice and I think as a small app this would make a great game to buy off an online store.