ECHO

The game is beautiful, I played it years ago, but I bought it again and it kept crashing on me. It's just a fond memory now.

The fact that the developer is closed is equally tragic and fitting. I've had dreams as a child that were captured by the level design of this game. The game is a fleeting experience which is necessary for this recommendation. If another developer came and picked up where this designer left off, it wouldn't be soon enough. Decent game if your enjoy the stealth genre, Gorgeous if you appreciate themes and breath-taking if you like architecture.

Great game to understand the psychology of why people these days are acting like NPCs.

This Game is Something else.... One of the kind...

Recommended. A stealth descent through a planet-sized palace where the enemy copies everything done in the light and forgets what is left undone, making restraint itself the core verb and the difficulty entirely self-taught. Clones learn to sprint, shoot, swim and steal the very orbs used against them, mech segments invert the rules with one-hit kills, and sniping a late-game robot from distance rewards genuine experimentation. Two voice performers carry the whole acerbic companion dynamic, and the finale recontextualises the manipulation from the beginning. A mid-level hang forces a reload, a resolution bug resets to 720p every session, the radar HUD is too noisy to spot pursuers clearly, and the opening hours crawl before the premise ignites. Eight years on, nothing else has copied the copycat.

Cool ideas, but the repetetive nature, the clunky movement, samey environments and invonvenient save checkpoints make this ultimately not worth my time. The controls, movement and interface feels like this was meant to be a VR game at some point.