Crush by Kuju/Sega
Finally an interesting game on the PSP. Really tasty and original puzzle mechanic - flattening the 3D scene into a 2D orthographic view, which then behaves as if its a standard 2D platformer. Pull out of the view and your location will have changed to the corresponding platform within the 3D scene.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Wow, looks really original. This is the first time I hear of it, nice find thx!
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:22 am
[...] handcircus » Blog Archive » Crush by Kuju/Sega This new PSP game might just have me buying the damn thing together with Lumines and LocoRoco. (tags: games gaming sony PSP) [...]
July 17th, 2007 at 5:20 am
[...] Wow. Developed by internal Sony studios (SCEI), this puzzle title for PSP and PS3 (downloadable) picks up from Kuju/Zoe Mode’s Crush and takes gives it an M.C. Escher flavoured remix. By rotating the camera to a new fixed position, the behaviour of the 3D environment alters radically. Clever use of an orthographic projection allow for different paths in entirely seperate sections to combine to form a new single path. A beautiful, elegant bit of game design. Love it. [...]