Games I Finished In 2022 #33: Kurushi / Intelligent Qube

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I’m here to tell you about a game called Kurushi (Intelligent Qube, for Americans) and the game called Kurushi is radical.

My first experience with Kurushi was when I got it on a demo disc for the original PlayStation in the late ‘90s. I have no idea what year. I have no idea what magazine the demo disc came with. I just remember playing the demo.

There are few demo discs that stand out. Obviously the one you get with the PlayStation with the T-Rex and that. That’s a classic. There’s the Metal Gear Solid / Metal Gear Solid 2 ones that I played a billion times before release. There was the Broken Sword demo that I played to death.

In that mix is the demo for Kurushi which I became completely enamoured with, and then when the real game came out I bought it immediately. Or rather my mum did, I think. I was like thirteen or something.

Anyway, Kurushi is a game I have played a lot of over the years. And it was one of the games I wanted most when PlayStation announced they were bringing PS1 games to PS5. And it was one of the games that I wanted to have trophies and they did that too. I can’t ask for more than that, really, when it comes to Kurushi.

Playing it in 2022 was incredibly nostalgic. I probably haven’t played the game for fifteen years but I still remembered most of the mechanics and I was still pretty good at it. I had to use the rewind thing when it got a bit spicy later on. Well, I didn’t have to. I could’ve just accepted failure like a man. But whatever.

Kurushi rocks. I love this game. I hope they bring more of my favourite original PlayStation games back on this Plus thing. But for now, this will do. You done good, Sony.

8/10