Supposedly this is from a game for the PSP? Go Go Dutch Impossible Physics Art Game! Yes, it's a game set in an MC Escher universe where impossible physics work.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1767583
Ok, that would be hard to play lol
I suspect it would eventually be like a lot of unique puzzle games... after a while you get into a groove, you see patterns, etc. It's like doing the hardest level Sudoku puzzles, the first time you try the easy ones you feel the hard ones are impossible, until you eventually learn the patterns to look for etc.
In the case of the PSP game, I imagine you'd just have to "look ahead" and know in advance where your dude would need to go, before he falls to his death before getting to that point.
Oh, and looks like there's no Wikipedia article for it (yet?) but lotsa chatter inside teh Cybernet toobing:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Echodrome **
PS: I think this would be a great kind of game for the Wii. Dammit, Nintendo, how could you not automagically have prevented *Sony* of all people from releasing this first!? ;)
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** update 15 seconds later:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echochrome
"c" as in chrome as in colour and so forth... not "d" as in "duh" ::rolleyes::
"The game is based on the Object Locative Environment Coordinate System developed by Jun Fujiki, an engine that determines what is occurring based on the camera's perspective." 8)
see also
- http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/11/sony-announces-echochrome/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Reutersv%C3%A4rd "In comparing his work to that of the much more famous artist of the impossible, M. C. Escher, it can be observed that Escher builds inhabited worlds around impossible objects, whereas Reutersv?rd's designs generally consist of pure geometric forms."
Imagine that game with "NeuroSky" technology!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroSky
Wow, I read something about this but thought it was an Onion-esque satire... guess not (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=NeuroSky) :)