Look Mum No Computer

Eins, Zwei, Drei

An excellent game, but maybe not for everyone. I found out about this game on launch day, and being a fan of LMNC and his style of music, I was more than happy to buy and play it. I enjoyed it enough to fully perfect the game on 125% difficulty, but I can't say that it's entirely flawless. The sound design of the entire game was great (even just the dialogue sounds were pleasant to me haha), and at the end of each play session I would go to the synthesizer in the museum just to mess around with the different modules. The dynamic soundtrack concept kept me more engaged with the game as I played, but I have to agree with other reviews that some of the sounds can start to feel grating (the flame organ module lmao) and especially early in the game when your power level is low and the sounds aren't as complex. I found the gameplay satisfying and especially once you get far enough in that you're choosing where and when to use different combinations of modules. I could never fully rely on a single loadout to take me through every single mission, and there were times that the game was clearly encouraging me to use specific ones to fit the current mission better. I will admit though that I pretty much never used a few of the modules (the hypno and acid ones), and in some cases there were some that I used early on but found to be so much less effective than the later unlocked ones that I almost fully stopped using them even though I was still upgrading them all (the beam and lightning modules vs. the flame and megadrone modules in particular). I would say the game was challenging for me to complete, but I found out right before the final boss that I had accidentally been making everything harder on myself by manually turning to face each enemy and using the fire button instead of just using the right stick for it all (oops lol). In terms of the feeling of progression, I felt that I had unlocked all 8 of the module slots almost too early on and that I had been given just about all of the most useful modules by the end of world 4, and so the last half of the game felt a bit grind-heavy since I was just upgrading the same set of modules over and over (I had also refrained from buying module upgrades until the end as much as possible). I did try to play the worlds in order though, doing every mission and getting all the collectibles in each one before moving to the next, so perhaps if I had done a bit of each world at a time I would have been going back and grinding previous worlds for resources less (that would have made getting all the collectibles more exhausting, though). The only other thing I could note about the difficulty of the game was the sharp increase at the end, I was expecting a challenge of course but the final boss was quite exhausting even with a max level loadout which I had to go back and grind resources for to even stand a chance at beating. It was super satisfying to complete the game though, and the story was okay for the most part. It's very clear to me that a lot of thought, time, and effort went into the game, even just from the smaller LMNC references and humor with not just the dialogue but even things like the characters you rescue running crazily around the screen before leaving lol. Sadly though, I do think that those who aren't fans of LMNC and especially analog synth music would find more issues with the game than I did, or at least not appreciate it as much. To everyone who was involved with the game, awesome work!

Play this if love LMNC and want to support Sam! If you don't love LMNC, then what the heck is wrong with you?!!!

Heads up, I didn't realize the music would get better as you play! early songs sound really lame, then as you upgrade and acquire more modules it gets back to being more like look mum no computer! Not the greatest of story lines but still good fun.

This game is a twinstick shooter where you use a modular synthesizer to modify your gun. Of course its fun and the gameplay loop is very addictive. The game feels very arcade-y and i mean that in the best way possible. There is plenty here for anyone that likes LMNC, but plenty for anyone that like this style of action game. Soundtrack slaps.

Just started playing on my ally running bazzite. The game design is excellent. The music / synthesis elements are surprisingly in depth and really good. I am going to enjoy this one. Seems easy to pick up and grasp.

I grabbed this as soon as I saw the trailer and am having a blast with it. Love the interactive soundtracks and I'm compelled to find all the components I need to upgrade my modules. All I could have hoped for if I heard that Sam was collabbing with retro minded folks on a video game.

A C+ of a game. Looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, how it introduces concepts of modulators while doing the arcade thing is ingenious, but it is just not very fun.