ABC: AUDIO REACTIVE BEAT CIRCLE

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[h1] Potential Ruined[/h1] This game is great in concept, and terrible in execution. Audio surf exists still, and will treat your songs with far better respect then this vomit inducing (no joke) spiral from hell. At first, I thought "Oh cool this is a rhythm game I could get used to. (I said while on copious amounts of amphetamines). I even showed some friends it, and was hyped how the game wasn't so focused on getting you through a song track, but having you play for a certain period of time. That's pretty cool. Controls are also button based, and not mouse. We did notice that the games audio detection comes from the desktop audio, and not a specific indicatable program. Meaning, while in discord "Bury the Light" went very slow and kept having jerky movement from my friends talking. And after the first 4 levels, I realized my room was spinning, no I wasn't drinking. This game is just an optical illusion that gets worse the longer you play it. [h1]It gets Better (it Doesn't)[/h1] So besides the nausea and vomiting induced by this game going on far to long, the game will also randomly spin your view for an indiscernible reason, for an indiscernible amount of time and pauses the movement throwing you off the rhythm, which it uses in a souls-like attempt to re-imagine vindictive game design in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RHYTHM GAME. The game will leave you with visual hallucinations with how many layers of S P I N go on, and the game would be beautiful without it. Best part is when I was going over the "Caretaker Album," the game decided it would become a bullet hell, while being a walk on the beach for "Bury the Light." Why? No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue. What's worse? The games original soundtrack which is about 5 songs, with certain "pauses" that don't feel intentional, especially when the game starts and stops movements based on volume. Quite for a moment? Regardless of how slow the tempo is, everything stops. Loud suddenly? SPEED UP ♥♥♥♥♥ SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED. This game thinks loud=fast, and that "The Caretaker" is more complex than "Bury the Light." Before anyone defends "The Caretaker," I tried it with the doom soundtrack, and my dreamcore/weirdcore/traumacore playlist. Doom, easy. Dreamcore hard. Something is integrally wrong with this games algorithm. The mechanics are nauseating, the base music is mid. And it all accumulates to a bad experience. [h1]TL;DR[/h1] The changes required would make this game a completely different experience. With that being said at what point do we just abandon this project and make a new one, or make something so different that the body is no longer recognizable? [b]NOW[/b] It's not even worth the free download.