Prism: Light the Way Review

Prism: Light the Way is an addictive and challenging puzzle game with a surprising amount of depth to its puzzles. The game is built on the basic concept of directing light beams around a small room. You are given puzzle pieces with which you create and direct light, and targets, which are placed in the walls of the room. Depending on the game mode, the challenge can come from quickly finding a way to hit all targets, from quickly hitting targets successively, or just from the complexity of finding any way to hit all targets with the correct color of light at the same time.

The basic components of the game are the light bulbs (called bulboids) that create white light, the mirrors which reflect light, and the t-junctions which split the light. Since none of the components can be rotated, plenty of puzzles can be created using only these components. Finding the proper configuration in which to split and reflect the light to hit all targets simultaneously is simple to understand, yet challenging to do.

The complexity only starts with white light, however. The game also has red, blue and yellow glowbos (the targets onto which you must direct light). In order to create colored light, there are filter blocks, which change any light coming in to their color. This adds a layer of complexity to directing light through t-junctions and mirrors, because now you have to make sure that you can place the filter block where all glowbos further downstream from it will be that color. Additional sources of colored light include prisms, which split white light into beams of each of the other colors, one in each direction, and cycloids, which fire a beam that rotates colors (and therefore can activate any colored glowbo, but not a white one). The cycloids only fire their beam when hit by light, but they always fire in the same direction, regardless of the direction of the incoming light.


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