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.