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Every self-respecting new console, especially if loaded with hardware features such as PlayStation Life, needs a certain number of games that show off the potential. And fortunately, next to showcase the real rate of mini-games like Little Deviants , also occur more rational production, able to blend new and traditional under an umbrella of character and personality.

Just a strong identity, first and foremost visual strong points Escape Plan, the new work already guilty of the frenzied mob Fat Princess . The two protagonists of this adventure, the descriptive names of Lil and Laarg, are strange creatures that hang out in a universe that recalls the tone of German and more like Limbo and that affects very strong at first glance. Images and sounds to create a surreal experience, which then loads of cruel humor cruel black banner of the protagonists (another trait in common with the game PlayDead). From what we saw in our brief test, however, is not only charismatic Escape Plan.

The game model is essentially a reworking of the classic Lemmings , with two players to drive to safety, avoiding danger of death, there is no way of control them directly. Everything is done via a touch screen and touch pad rear, with the analogue sticks used for the management of the frame (which can be moved and adjusted in terms of zoom). A shift of the fingertip, for example, serves to suggest to Lil or to move to a Laarg direction, with a quick tap and you can ask for the arrest on the spot. Always using a touch screen you can specify a character to act on some mechanism, or maybe you can move an obstacle that blocks the way. This can be done with a touch on the touch pad back, since objects can be moved in depth in both directions, but also because it can sometimes be useful to drop even a mattress leaning against the wall, or it may be needed to raise a bridge.

Clearly the possibilities of interaction increases exponentially with the progress in levels. As they emerge, for example, devices that may temporarily give the protagonists of some powers. The first of which is the shutter speed is required, drinking from a gas source to be issued in the form of flatulence, then it triggers "crushing" the character with a pressure of contemporary touch screen and touch pad back. Add to this the fact that after a few rooms, you find yourself controlling two characters, both with their own characteristics - Laarg, trivially, has several ways to exploit its size - and to work for salvation.

The game is structured in a long series of rooms, size variable, progressively more and more full of obstacles and dangers. Its nature is, in short, that of a classic puzzle game, which among other things includes the inevitable system of evaluation of the progress of the player, based on the skill with which you complete a level. In particular, counts the number of actions performed with the moves "useless" that will take away precious points. The number of unavoidable deaths will not go instead to weigh on the score, because death, as well as, once again, in the aforementioned Limbo, is an integral part of the game, its gameplay, the need to find out through trial operation of the challenges proposals. And frankly we can not wait to die, if it is funny how we felt during our brief test in London.