Publisher: Toshiba EMI
Developer: Toshiba EMI
Release Date: 2/19/1998
Date Played: 11/12/2019
Region: Japan
Time Played: 35 minutes
What’d you think?: I love Egg. I don’t really understand what I played. It seemed to be a turn-based strategy game that felt a little like a territory control-based board game. You control an egg and on each of your turns you roll your egg along a grid playfield. This rolling seems to use the mechanics of a billiards game, you choose a direction to shoot from and a launch power. Sometimes the eggs don’t roll straight, as eggs wouldn’t. The tiles you roll over change color indicating your control of them. Any tiles enclosed by an unbroken ring also change control. Large blocks of tiles give you “towers” which seem to charge some invisible currency that enables you to add effects to your rolls. One effect I saw cleared a large square of tiles based on where the egg ends up. Your egg also has health, and it grows progressively more cracked, due to events I wasn’t always able to figure out, but impacting other eggs certainly can cause it. The game’s aesthetic is dated in a very nostalgic way. Vaporwave for days. Wonderful game.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QUjNr6WFOc
