The haunting mannequin
I just got my PS3 back online and downloaded
Echocrome on thought that the game's mechanics were pretty original, which is without a doubt a truthful statement. The game's visually simplistic tone is a somehow likeable one but also chillingly soul lacking due to a main "character" with minimal personal or human traits, maps strictly populated by plain geometric objects and the lack of even the slightest presence of color.
Anywho, the real problem with me and
Echocrome is its music, which i find one of the most depressing yet fitting background themes I've ever heard. For $9.99, developer SCE Studios Japan ripped out the joy of my day. I'm aware artful productions and melancholic violins go hand in hand but I can't help myself from thinking about the tough life of a lonely mannequin who endlessly travels monochromatic Escheric landscapes while avoiding falling to the endless white abyss that surrounds his petty, sad, little world…
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