Dyad

It's got good gameplay, but the busy visuals get in the way. Rather than the graphic design complementing the gameplay by offering useful information in a stylish way, you have a psychedelic blur that exists only to be colorful. Because of this, the gameplay, which is designed to be challenging in a good way, ends up being combined with the additional challenge of deciphering the locations, speeds, and hitboxes of the actual game elements from amidst all of the colorful noise. It's like if someone made a WMP visualization and then someone else separately made a game and they put them together without discussing anything. To put it another way, if Tetris were made in the same way as Dyad, the falling "blocks" would be indestinct bubbles without definied edges, the background would be a visualization of colors similar to those of the "blocks", the blocks wouldn't snap to a grid, and the whole playing area would have a constant rippling visual effect so that even if the tiles did have columns, you wouldn't be able to tell quite which column they were in at any given time. And here's a video demo of me explaining this: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/118634859 All that said, Dyad isn't bad, and there's fun to be had here if you can get used to mentally separating the gameplay bits from the pretty color bits. But I wouldn't recommend it either.

While I love the concept of Dyad, as a psychedelic rhythm game, the execution leaves something to be desired. A lot of the design is pretty esoteric, which wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but it's very poorly explained, if at all. It's often hard to know what's going on.

What the hell am I supposed to be doing?

Looked like a funnky game but it ain't fun

Don't even bother yourself anymore; Just go away from here. This game is pulled off steam stores decades ago. Please go, just leave

Note: I have both the Steam and GOG versions and have put more time into the latter due to laziness. Probs add like another 4-5 hours on top of what's being shown here. Words cannot accurately portray how much this game is important to me. DYAD is basically like a mind reset for me. Any time I'm feeling anxious, stressed, depressed, annoyed...any negative emotion you can think of; I bust out this game. DYAD is a game where each level gives you a simple task to complete. You can progress through the entire game so long as you at least get one star on every level, which is a relatively simple task. It is a game where you can absorb yourself in the colours and forget about everything going on in life. The biggest highlight of all being the final level, Eye of the Duck - It's not infinite as the logo would suggest. But it's worth the journey getting there. Outside of the game itself, the music is produced by David Kanaga and is absolutely sublime. Because of how the sound design is, well, designed, the sound effects are in itself integral to the music. Because of this, the OST for the game comes in a largely arranged form, containing both the songs and some of the sound effects when appropriate. While it doesn't quite provide the kick that playing the game does, it's still a fantastic album in its own right and definitely worth checking out if you like this game. Even though I've technically completed this game, and have no interest in getting better star ratings on the levels, I can safely say I'm going to be returning back to DYAD any time I need to chill out. This game is more than just a psychedelic freakout, and that's the most important part to remember.

would be best game oat but the final achievement wont work

Nothing says "I was a teenager and/or stoned college kid when Winamp Visualizers were all the rage" more so than Dyad. The cacophony, the visual assault, the back-sweat and unblinking, dilated eyes screaming out in terror...game is good.

Yes

Very trippy, not quite as cool as REZ (don't think this is a shooter!), but great if you're stoned.