Echochrome requires a good hard look to wrap your head around the concept the first time you witness it: Created entirely out of black lines against an ultra-minimalist, stark white background, a figure reminiscent of a mannequin artist's model navigates interconnecting, M.C. Escher-like pathways as you rotate the camera. That last part is the key, too: The pathways don't interconnect unless viewed from the right angle. If you've ever seen one of those "how many prongs does this fork have?" illusions, you'll know what to expect; it doesn't quite make sense to your eyes as your brain does a perpetual double take, but it makes for a brilliantly unique starting point for a puzzle game.

Seemingly (Sony couldn't confirm anything) on the way this spring to PSN and PSP (the latter of which hasn't technically been announced for the U.S., but has a Japanese date in March), Echochrome is coming along conceptually, though the nuts and bolts still need some work. The basic game mechanics are dictated by five laws: Perspective Traveling, which essentially means that changing your perspective can create new paths; Perspective Landing, which ignores depth when moving from one height to another; Perspective Existence, which dictates that gaps don't exist if you can't see them (covered up by rotating pathways in front of them); Perspective Absence, similar to Existence, but ignoring obstacles and jump pads by covering them; and Perspective Jump, which allows jumps and falls to work on a 2D plane, landing on platforms that are lined up visually, regardless of depth.