This is a weird situation, a game that's nice but clearly not for me. And you get an explanation.
It's a rhythm game: click one button or t'other at certain events to succeed. There's music playing, ostensibly the clicks happen on the beats. You get some neat visuals which ought to be synched up.
I am, in general, rather good at this sort of game. I enjoy them, again, in general. I did not enjoy this one, and clearly that's a me thing.
My friction point was that the game really wanted to to listen and react to the music exclusively. It went to some effort to make the visuals noisy and difficult to interpret. And then, to add further difficulty, the events you were to click to felt like they were off-beat and/or also had delays built in. And, frankly, I could not manage. The ones that were pure visual (alligator feeding, worm-ball-bouncing) I could easily get perfect on. The others? No.
So I hit an insurmountable wall, I tried my hand at it a few times, it wasn't clicking. "Skill issue," you might say, snarkily, and you may be right. But I'm going to share a secret with you, drawn from my decades of life experience: if you are not enjoying a game you've paid for, you don't have to keep at it. Just stop playing, and return it if you can. That's it. You don't have to do the thing you're not enjoying.
So this is a conflicted review. If you really, really like rhythm gaming, this might be for you. If, like myself, you need that visual component as well, maybe it won't be for you after all. Even though I bounced off it hard and refunded, I still wished I could like it. And that's why it gets a thumbs up.*
This might be one of the least-rambly reviews I've written in ages. There's more where that came from, and a curator to boot. If you're down here, still reading, you're my kind of person, too.
* Okay, seriously, some fellow tried to sass me because I wasn't writing enough negative reviews and (??? mysterious logic here) therefore I was being paid to write reviews? Seriously, I wish.
