Today's most revealing video: Crush gameplay footage

by Ross Miller on Jan 25th 2007 12:25AM

One of the most popular YouTube gaming videos today showed off footage of Sega's recently unveiled original IP for the PSP, the platform-puzzler Crush. The puzzle element of the game comes from its ability to switch from a 3-dimensional space to a 2D platformer so as to cover wide gaps.

Confused? It's hard to explain, we suggest checking out the video, embedded after the break, to see what looks like a promising PSP release.

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Tags: Crush, Platformer, PSP, Puzzle, Sega, Zoe-Mode

Reader Comments (32)

Looks like it gets boring fast. But I must admit, it is a fresh idea. I would like to play something like that for a couple hours, Cant picture myself playing it ever again after that tho.

Paper Mario wii anyone?

Not that thrilled about the gameplay, but I liked the music and atmosphere.

you know what goes good with crush? cookies.......

I don't know why but this games seems drug inspired.

This actually looks pretty interesting, but I don't plan on ever buying a PSP, so I'll just forget I saw it.

Sega and Capcom have been supporting the PSP an awful lot lately. Didn't they get the memo to jumpship to the DS?

Wow, I don't know why you guys are so critical of this. It looks like an amazingly fresh and brilliant idea. I haven't seen anything like this on the market ever. It's such a great concept, and it has tons of potential.

"Wow, I don't know why you guys are so critical of this. It looks like an amazingly fresh and brilliant idea. I haven't seen anything like this on the market ever. It's such a great concept, and it has tons of potential."

But Sega is developing it. The same Sega that put out the racist Shadow the hedgehog game, and Sonic Adventure High Def (I refuse to call it by its real name).

I'm with Kyo and Sid Space on this one. It won't make me buy a PSP, but if this came out on the DS I'd be all over it. Looks very interesting.

some of you need to stop. this looks nothing like Super Paper Mario.

It's not that it looks like Super Paper Mario, it's that both of the games involve switching from 2D to 3D to alter the gameplay.

I for one am excited to get an exclusive for the PSP that isn't shit - and here I was worrying that it was going to go the way of the Virtual Boy.

Shadow the Hedgehog a racist game? Nah. It was just a pile of shit that's all.

And I think this game looks amazingly fresh. Too bad I sold me PSP long, long ago...

And another thing, who the hell cares if this was up on other sites before Joystiq? You don't need to act like an internet elitist. No one gives a fuck.

That's right NamelessTed. That means you.

video doesn't seem to work and youtube link craps out too

I can see myself pickin this one up i think.. been awhile since ive picked up a psp game, or my psp for that matter..

Looks interesting but whats with all the psp crap I've been hearing about? Like final fantasy games and this. I don't want a psp so stop trying to make me.

At the very least, it's multi-dimensional gaming; you run around in three dimensions, then transfer into two different (but related) dimensions, then when you move across those two dimensions you can translate yourself into a different (but related) place in the other three dimensions. Hopefully Sony will give us true 4D gaming soon: in the mean time here's a 4D Rubik's cube to play with;
http://www.superliminal.com/cube/applet.html

Ah crap, that looks like it'll be interesting. Too bad I'll never touch a PSP.

The game's pacing seems off. Every time you switch views, you stop gameplay and disrupt your flow.

it DOES remind me of super paper mario. i couldn't figure out what game it reminded me of. it really really does. you know, though, i think everybody from the 80s and 90s tried to invision exactly what the 2-d worlds we knew and loved would look like in 3d. i mean, of course stuff to them had to stagger and stuff. you know?

"Sega's recently unveiled original IP for the PSP"

Can we please stop this crap and just call them games? It's an original game. Christ. You're not marketdroids or lawyers; stop talking like them.

I think it looks like the most promising game to come out of Sega since the days of the Dreamcast. I'm a DS owner myself, but I think it's sad how so many other DS owners have to bash this game just because it's on the PSP. Recognize quality and innovation, guys. And no, this does not look like Super Paper Mario - the gameplay mechanic is totally different. Look beyond superficialities.

Wow! That really looks great. The PSP has a lot of very good original games coming out for it this year (and great adaptations of console games.) 2006 was a rough year for PSP but this year looks very good.

Kudos to SEGA for making a game with some VERY COOL mechanics. I really like the way this game is shaping up and, for once, people are looking at SEGA for an innovative game. (Let's face it-- they've made some great games but "innovative" is not a word that would have come to mind in quite a while.)

to bad sony's psp sucks z balls

Looks cool but I'll never play it. Because I'll probably never buy a PSP.

This game does look pretty good despite what others may say on here. Maybe they'll port it over to the PS2 after it's initial release because there's no way in hell I'm spending $200 just to play an original game for a dying, portable system.

Looks like a great game, can't wait for it to come out on my PSP.

Also, GameyMcGee, how was 2006 a rough year for the PSP? 2005 was a rough year for the PSP, 2006 was the year that it started to pick up hotter titles and it looks like that trend will be continuing into 2007.

Why must people be so dumb? Seriously. Racist Sonic the Hedgehoy? 'PSG IS GAY'? 'Stop making me want a PSP'?' What. Like the game? Dislike the game? What kind of point are you proving by responding with "PSP is gay". Okay...so don't buy one. Don't play the game. Does it make you feel better to get it off your chest? This inanimate portable game console is homosexual -- what are you, 5? People are seriously retarded.

I almost feel sorry for all the people in this thread that will never get to play this game. /comfort. Then I remember they are just fanboys and I get over that feeling.

This game looks like a great puzzler. Looks like 2007 will be very similar to the last half of 2006 and my PSP will continue to get more play time than my DS. Between this, ff7cc, and monster hunter 2, it looks like my psp will dominate my handheld time :( Unless something amazing for the DS is going to drop in 2007, then maybe it'll be a fight.

"But Sega is developing it. The same Sega that put out the racist Shadow the hedgehog game, and Sonic Adventure High Def (I refuse to call it by its real name)."

Nuuur, WRONG. the UK based developer kuju is developing Crush, not SEGA. SEGA is meerly the publisher. Also, Sonic Team developed Sonic Next Gen, and SEGA Studios USA created Shadow the Hedgehog. Get your facts straight and try again.

See, this is what I was hopping was going to happen with PSP. DS fixed its problem and got solid hardcore games with its quircky games, the oposit of quirky games to PSP would have saved it.

Better late than never I guess.

The PSP isn't close to dying... that would the Gamecube homeboy.

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