Halfbrick Echoes
This is a somewhat frustrating game, but not because it’s difficult or poorly designed. It’s just really short on content. You can’t expect a lot from a $1 game, anyway, but they could have easily added more levels and bumped up the price tag. Echoes is a top-down action/puzzle game where you collect crystals in confined areas. The catch is that, whenever you get another crystal, a shadow of your former self appears and follows your last path back and forth. Touching your shadow causes you to lose a life, and when you’ve get 10-15 shadows parading around, it gets a little tricky. This forces you to think ahead to avoid creating a shadow that will later block off a part of the level, but the action moves so quick that you’ll hardly think of Echoes as a puzzle game. The echo gameplay works so well that it’s a shame the game features so few levels. The two-player battle mode certainly helps extend the game’s life, but only a portion of the single-player levels are available in multiplayer. I just want so much more from this game!
If more content was released for this game I would probably pick it up.