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Quick Look: Echochrome II

This time, when a light bulb goes on in your head, it just makes things more complicated.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jan. 12 2011

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Echochrome II

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Great music.
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Edited By Tordah

I can see how this game can get complicated quickly.

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Edited By JoelTGM

im gonna go buy that!

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Edited By FritzDude

9th.

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Edited By jorbear

Oh no. 

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Edited By bassman2112

Very cool,
 
I'd really love to try this even though I don't (yet) have a Move!
 
The mario one looked rad, I bet these get mad complicated haha. Thanks for the QL

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Edited By nintendoeats

This reminds me so much of the original, in that even when you get what you need to do actually making the game understand your train of thought is sometimes impossible.

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Edited By sheldipez

Head hurts just watching this video

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Edited By ArbitraryWater

The soundtrack reminds me of Arcanum. In that it is literally nothing but orchestral strings. I bet that would get grating after a while.

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Edited By teekomeeko

Despite the fact that halfway through the first one I started feeling like I was a complete retard, this is likely the first game I'll buy when I get a Move controller set. It is just something that can be played a puzzle at a time just to get your mind going early in the day, which was perfect for early morning bus rides to work on my PSP (the PS3 version had different levels, which was pretty sweet, too).

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Edited By norsedudetr
I suppose mind altering sustances would increase my admiration for this game. As it stands, in my sober state, and having played the first one until my brain was cleft in twain, this is interesting only for the Ryan/Jeff-banter.
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Edited By vinsanityv22

Oh man Jeff - you had me rolling with that line, "They need to add more stickers. Like...TOTAL GARBAGE! A TRAVESTY! COMPLETELY RACIST!" :D That was great. The enthusiasm was palpable.

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I enjoy watching this game far more than having to play Lost in Shadow any longer.

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Edited By ironscimitar

Great music!

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Edited By Trilogy

The music in this game is giving me a Shelley Duvall's Fairy Tale Theater/ Sunday afternoon PBS vibe. 
 
 
In other words, I like it.

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This needs more vignetting.

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Gorgeous music, now I'm considering picking up a Move just for this...

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Edited By prestonhedges

Vampires don't cast shadows, don't cast reflections, and nor do they traverse bodies of water twixt their compulsion and their objective.

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Edited By beard_of_zeus

This actually looks like the first Move title that uses that technology well and seems like a fun, interesting game.
 
I'm also not going to disagree about the first echochrome making me feel dumb, that game got hard real fast.

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Edited By navyboy

This looks sick, a definite buy for me

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@skippyscissors said:

" MUST...FIND...SOUNDTRACK! "

If you like this kind of instrumental music then I would recommend "7fingers" by Nils frahm and anne muller
  
  
Another album I can recommend is "becalmed" by sophie hutchings
  
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the guys behind both these games are easily, high level, rocket surgeons. 

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@Mustard: They perform surgery on rockets? Man they must be geniuses. 
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Absolutely brilliant idea.  I like it so much that I am almost motivated to buy a Move package.

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@mosdl: lol do you really wanna use six axis?
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Edited By mbkish

Some boring-ass music with this game.

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Edited By Ronald

It's true, if you can  create a custom level, someone will have created Super Mario Bros.

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Thanks, Jeff. Ryan would be lost without you sometimes.

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@mbk337 said:
" Some boring-ass music with this game. "
bite your tongue
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Edited By MagikGimp

I wonder if this is truly clever or just easier than it looks. I hope they got some real boffins to twist their minds around some of these instead of it just being a case where you force your way through the harder levels.

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Edited By rox360

Oh.. dear god, my brain... The flat surface levels look easy enough, and you can probably brute-force your way through a lot of the "escort" type ones. But the ones with multiple planes, and the other objectives look impossible to wrap your brain around! Just like the first game...

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My brain would hurt to much if I played a bunch of this game.

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This game looks like a complete mind bender.

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this music makes me way happy

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I love the music and if they have taken the timer out of the levels I will get this game.

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@K9: I like those tracks especially the first one.
 
If you have anymore music recommendations in that style then please PM me :)
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Yeah, the music is great. I haven't been this pleased by a string videogame OST since Arcanum.

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First quick look where Ryan's pronunciation of "exit" annoyed me. He says it like "eggs-it" instead of "ex-it". Ugh.

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@mantasradzas said:
" Thanks, Jeff. Ryan would be lost without you sometimes. "
With that statement, I propose Giantbomb fanfiction.
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@X19 said:

" @K9: I like those tracks especially the first one. If you have anymore music recommendations in that style then please PM me :) "

Sure. I might as well post these recommendations because there might be one or two other posters who are too shy to ask for a pm. 
 
More after we are gone, by signal hill
  
  
Standing in Silence, by Rhian Sheehan
  
  
On little known frequencies, by from monuments to masses
  
  

And so I watch you from afar, by and so I watch you from afar 
 
  
  
All is wild all is silent, by balmorhea
 
  
  
I can recommend a few more but this should be enough for now.
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@mbk337 said:
" Some boring-ass music with this game. "
Would love to know what you think good music would be for this game.
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@K9
 
Hey, thanks for those recommendations, I was unfamiliar with all of em, and I love that kind of music, I loved Signal Hill,  Rhian Sheehan and Balmorhea , just bought those 3 albums on amazon.

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@FoogleSmoogle: This is the kind of music mbk wishes was in every videogame. 
  
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Cool concept, too bad I'm not a PS3 owner.  Love a good puzzler.

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@K9: 
awesome, perfect
please recommend more
this is my cup of tea
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@stephengotlost said:

" @K9:  awesome, perfect please recommend more this is my cup of tea "

All right. Here are a few more. 
 
 Above the earth, below the sky; by 'if these trees could talk'.  The audio uploaded to youtube is of low quality, by the way.
  
  
Skulltaste, by mux mool. One of the most creative instrumental album released in 2010.
 
  
  
Animals as leaders, by animals as leaders. 
 
  
  
Caesura, by helios. 
 
  
  
Tertia, by Caspian. 
 
  
  
And last but not the least, This binary universe, by BT. The disc version of the album features all the songs remastered specifically for 5.1 surround sound. I have never heard anything like it. It's a shame that after releasing this  album BT went back to creating mainstream techno songs. 
 
  
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Edited By Rxanadu

Mario Bros 1-1:  the "Hello, world" of user-based content.

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Edited By gnome

Designing these levels must be pretty difficult and/or time consuming 
 
Great choice on the soundtrack too