Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12159 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2007-09-21
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Subtitled in: German
• Dimensions: .79" h x 5.39" w x 4.92" l, .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

A quality distraction in short bursts.
The core concept is essentially "refract the beams of light" challenges using mirrors, colour cubes & prism's, (one glance of the in-game screen shots should give you an immediate idea of what to expect) and it's actually a pretty challenging series of puzzles....after you're endured the almost condescending set of about two dozen training levels that is!

Prism has an odd and, admittedly stupid and pointless "aliens need light" universe featuring Glowbos and Bulboids, the good Ogg and the evil Bhobail. Does it need it? No. Who cares, you're just shifting light around. Just ignore the stupid story and move on.

Prism does take a few minutes to get into, but that's mainly attributed to the poor decision of creating stupidly easy puzzles for the first two dozen challenges. Yes, it's nice that the team wanted to wean the players into the different puzzle mechanics of Prism, but come on....20 of the 120 levels are nothing but filler puzzles that require a simple shift of one or two items to solve. When you're new to a game and you're doing very little to succeed in the first twenty minutes of play, it makes you question whether you chose the right game. Luckily after about the first two dozen puzzles, the game picks up in challenge and finally starts to come into its own.

On top of the core single player puzzle, the designers included a few other options to spice things up. The infinite mode is almost like Prism's version of the Tetris "Marathon" mode, but it's not nearly as addictive. What is addictive is the game's Hyper mode where you have to use the light-casting mechanics to constantly remove aliens with light beams, mirrors, and prisms with almost a rapid-fire pace. And then there's the multiplayer cooperative mode that uses both screens as a single display, so you'll have to send beams of light to the other player's touch screen in order to beat certain challenges.

Prism is a refreshing puzzle game on the DS, and a nice break from the various block-based puzzlers we've been playing the last few years. Sadly, there's just something about it that won't make most people want to keep going.

Annoyingly addictive
Well worth adding to your collection if you get it cheaply. It is addictive, frustrating and annoying all at the same time. But with plenty of levels and three different ways of playing the game you just have to keep coming back for more. Very easy to play.

Prism puzzle tastic
what a fantastic DS puzzler, from start to finish i was hooked, even when i turned it off in anger I still went back with a fresh patience :)
This ones great for patience!

highly recommended.