![]() ![]() It is this limitation that deadens the game as it progresses, leaving it the most stylish game in the package, with the best implementation of Move technology, but ultimately an inferior pure puzzle game to Lemmings. Like staring at a Magic Eye poster, if you just wave the wand long enough the answer will start to come together, the solution requiring no logic on behalf of the player and lessons learned in previous levels lost amongst the guesswork. It takes minutes until it is apparent that puzzles can be solved by simple guesswork. However, as time goes on and Lemmings continues to reward the player with a deserved sense of accomplishment, Echochrome ii takes a backward step. The concept is wildly imaginative and the early puzzles, as light is manipulated and impossible bridges realised, is richly rewarding, offering the same sense of achievement is package-mate Lemmings. The game evokes this atmosphere of organised madness throughout, with its music pulled straight from a Sherlock Holmes investigation and graphics that feel like they were sketched out on yellowing graph paper. ![]() Is Move about to surprise us by bringing its biggest guns out the closet, or is it stuck firing blanks?Įchochrome ii: One of Move’s most famous games, and probably the title in Move Mind Benders with the highest pedigree, Echochrome ii sees the player controlling a beam of light and manipulating shadows, creating trampolines, walkways and doors for the umbran character that must be guided to the exit.Įchochrome ii looks like an interactive Escher painting, all jutting angles, twisting space and perfectly ordered chaos. How these games hold up and how they work together, is the key to this package’s success. Lemmings now has full Move support (as you might expect) and all the games have been beefed up with full 3D support. Echochrome ii, Tumble and Lemmings are the games in question and they make for an intriguing package. Move should be luring new gamers and demographics to the PlayStation.īut is that to say that the Move has nothing going for it? Or are there some hidden away gems that could be lit up by Sony’s glowing wand if only consumers could get their hands on them? That is certainly the hope for Move Mind Benders, a package of three puzzle games, all designed specifically for the Move or tweaked to fit the motion control arena. ![]() 2011 has seen few, if any, big releases for the much-touted hardware which, rather than become an established peripheral, seems to be descending in freefall, now just a box feature for shooters like Resistance. In twelve months, what has happened to the PlayStation Move? The Sony motion controller seems to have got itself a little stuck. Available on: PlayStation 3 only (Move required) ![]()
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