What is it? It's a 2D puzzle game. I love puzzle games, Portal 1 and/or 2 are probably my favourite games of all time. There are many more I love, Q.U.B.E, Quantum conundrum, Doctor Robotnik's Mean bean machine and, most importantly to this subject, Braid (that's also 2D you see) (Couldn't get in to the Witness though, don't know why). The Bridge is like no other game I've ever played before.
You essentially have to navigate your way though MC Escher style paintings. For the less artistically intelligent of you (like me before I googled it while playing the game) he's the guy that did the painting 'relativity' (that's the one with all the stairs in different directions). In fact, I liked the game, and the artwork so much I was 1 click away from buying a print of his painting 'waterfall' (obviously buying relativity would be too on the nose and I'm too cool for that). What was I saying about the game?
Right, third time lucky. You have to navigate your way through these levels, taking place in one screen by rotating the world around you (you can walk as well) and playing with gravity. As usual there's levers to pull, sides to fall off and balls of death that follow the worlds rotation with you (that one isn't that usual, more specific to this game obviously, though when you play the first level for the first time you can tell these will be introduced further in). I wish I could say the game was completed without having to resort to an online guide, I always try my best not to in any puzzle game and I got so, so close, but the penultimate level stumped me, and after the best part of an hour trying to do it, I had to resign to the fact that cheating was required (that's right, looking up how to do a puzzle in a puzzle game is definitely cheating).
The art work in here is absolutely beautiful, it looks like a hand drawn Escher painting, truly astonishing. But, you want it all and you can't have it, there has to be a negative right? well, kind of. The sound, it's calmness fits the game but is very forgettable, and as I play most of my games silenced now with music or Podcasts on unless the sound is great/ important/ coming out of your controller and you can't get away from it (see what I had to say about Rocket Birds 2 to get that reference), it only took me a few minutes to see that volume off would be the way to play.
I hate the way 'games are art' is thrown around, and TV, film etc. I suppose it depends on what your definition of art is, but I don't think just because someone has come up with it, then it's art. Is Call of duty art? is my name is mayo art? Is Coronation street art? If i made a lasagna would that be art? The answer to all of these in my mind is no. This game to me though is art, not just because it's based on Escher, but that they've been inspired to create a game around his art style, the way they have come up with their own ideas based off his, and the novel way this game plays (there's probably been a game that plays like this before somewhere, but I've never played it so it doesn't count). By the way, Escher is mentioned in the game, I'm not just making assumptions. This game is truly special, and for anyone that likes puzzle games it's an absolute must play. It's less than £10. It's it.
You may also like: Braid
Just to catch up on the Sonic playing, I got really annoyed by Rush now and have decided that I've played enough of it to get my feelings together on it. I'm now off to play some of the smaller titles in the series I have access to, along with Days Gone (more like Days long, amirite?). I Probably won't do the Sonic rankings now 'til I've played Team Sonic racing (yes, I will play that before Rage 2), but I'll get there. Besides, the more time to invest in Sonic Dash, the better.
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