Prism: Light the Way

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Prism: Light the Way
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Developer(s) Morpheme Game Studios
Zattikka (iOS)
Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive
Zattikka (iOS)
Designer(s) Morpheme Game Studios
Platform(s) Mobile phone (Java ME), Windows, Nintendo DS, iOS
ReleaseMobile
2006
Windows
November 2006
Nintendo DS
  • EU: September 21, 2007
  • NA: October 17, 2007
  • AU: October 25, 2007
iPhone
June 25, 2010
iPad
August 18, 2010
Genre(s) Puzzle
Mode(s) Single-player

Prism: Light the Way is a two-dimensional puzzle video game developed by British company Morpheme Game Studios. In the game, the player, with the help of "Bulboids" that emit light beams, must direct the correct color of light into the "Glowbos". To aid in this objective are a variety of mirrors, T-splitters, filter blocks, and Prisms, collectively called Gluons.

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Gameplay

Screenshot of gameplay Prism - Light The Way.jpg
Screenshot of gameplay

The object of the game is to light up all of the Glowbos at the same time with their respective color. The game consists of five different game modes including Puzzle, Time, Hyper, Infinite, and Tutorial. The Puzzle game mode has 15 levels of 8 stages each totaling 120 puzzles altogether. There is also a scoreboard that keeps track of your best times for each puzzle.

The various Gluons are there to aid you in redirecting the light from the Bulboids into the Glowbos positioned in various places on each puzzle:

Reception

The DS version received above-average reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] Nintendo Power gave the European import a favorable review, nearly two months before its U.S. release date. [10] In Japan, where the same DS version was ported and published by Interchannel under the name Illumis Light: Hikari no Puzzle (イルミスライト -ひかりのパズル-, Irumisu Raito -Hikari no Pazuru-, lit. "Illumis Light: Puzzle of Light") on September 18, 2008, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40. [3]

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References

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  2. ↑ Lyon, James (September 26, 2007). "DS Roundup (Page 2)". Eurogamer . Gamer Network . Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  3. 1 2 "イルミスライト -ひかりのパズル-". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain . Retrieved December 27, 2022.
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