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Sony messes up echochrome's box art

Now no one's going to buy it for definite

Sony messes up echochrome's box art
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We don't normally pay much attention to game box art. Because, of course, we're smart and don't make important buying decisions based on a game's cover. We roll a dice instead and if it lands on evens we buy it.

Every now and again though a bit of box art comes along which we really feel compelled to comment on. And echochrome has earned that dubious pleasure by appearing on retail sites with a cover that looks to us weirdly at odds with its super-stylish, monochrome visuals. Basically it pictures a girl's head in the middle of a rainbow halo - how is that relevant?

As you'll know by now if you've read our earlier review of echochrome, this is a game that deserves a decent bit of artwork on its cover. We can only assume Sony felt (completely correctly admittedly) a hand-drawn marionette plodding around Escher-inspired illustrations wouldn't sell the game to the masses so felt compelled to make it looks like it's actually about something completely different.

We just hope Sony knows what its doing because this game deserves to sell well. Consider this a heads-up, anyway - when you go into your local game shop to buy echochrome when it's released on June 20th, you want to be looking for something that wouldn't look out of place on your little sister's bookshelf next to her Barbie annuals. Very strange.

Kath Brice
Kath Brice
Kath gave up a job working with animals five years ago to join the world of video game journalism, which now sees her running our DS section. With so many male work colleagues, many have asked if she notices any difference.