Neon Drive

This is not how you design gameplay. I moved the game into my "Trash" category after 20 minutes. Reinstalled to give it another chance after seeing the store page screenshots of later stages. Uninstalled it again at the 42 minutes mark and I'm abandoning this permanently. I'd refund it if I could. I can't because I bought a non refundable key to save money instead of buying on Steam. With 1660 reviews and 86% positive it had to be at least decent, right? Wrong, there's obvious fake reviews, with e.g. 5 accounts posting the same review text 4 of which on the same day. Gameplay consists ONLY of pressing left and right, at high speed with millisecond accuracy avoiding obstacles you can't anticipate if it's your first attempt at any single section. Game description says "will make your brain melt. You've been warned". This beats around the bush: dev should be clear what the warning is for: that the game requires near millisecond accuracy, that it will accept nothing short of perfection, that there is no way to progress other than perfection, and the only way to get there is EXTREME trial & error repetition. If money weren't involved, that's what the store page would have said. I'm a drummer at the semi pro level; some of the rhythms I can play are too intricate for most hobbyists to perform. Learning to play the drums is very frustrating, repetitive and requires a ton of perseverance. I have a custom built mechanical keyboard. (Xbox controller wasn't fast enough for this game). I used to play Unreal Tournament 1999 at the highest level of competition on some of the best teams in the world, national team included. I'm skilled at both gaming and rhythm, I'm obviously not the type to quit easily, yet I choose to quit this game. In my opinion, the game's checkpoints are too far apart for the game's difficulty. Replaying the same sections ooover and over, and over again until you have them memorized isn't fun. At all. I unlocked the first achievement: "Addiction", for retrying 30 times. If as a dev you think that's something to be happy about I don't know what else to tell you. The player isn't doing that because they enjoy it, they're doing it frustrated & uttering profanities trying to get the game to progress. I really wanted to push through to see all the visuals the game has to offer, which are obviously really cool but I won't because the gameplay is so unfun that it's just not worth it. Steamcharts says current players = 0. This is probably why. As Major Gnuisance wrote in his review: "The worst thing about Neon Drive is that it looks gorgeous and I can't help but to imagine how good it would be if it weren't so bad as a rhythm game." I came here from Melody's Escape 2 which I'd call "below mid", expecting this to be better. To Neon Drive's credit it does sync with the music on a more detailed level. The demo for sequel Neon Hyperdrive isn't an improvement. It's a more convoluted version of the same mistake. Devs always keep making the same mistakes. Always in their own little bubble sticking to their beliefs about game design.

Gameplay - press 2 buttons as fast as possible, maintaining perfect micro-timings. You can only pass if you've already learned the map after several dozen failed attempts. P.S. Did the developer even play the game themselves on the highest difficulty? I don't think so.

Neon lights rush past Rhythm guides each perfect turn Night sings through the speed

Одна из игр, где мы едем под музыку. Но не под свою, а под ту, что уже есть в игре. Но это даже лучше. Уровни сделаны специально под нее, да и саундтрек тут отменный. Да, она сложная, последние уровни хардкорные. Но, к счастью, на них есть сохранения. Совсем уж отбитые могут играть без них и тогда сойти с ума. Короче, отличная игра, покупайте - не пожалеете.

Gameplay - press 2 buttons as fast as possible, maintaining perfect micro-timings. You can only pass if you have already learned the map after several dozens of failed attempts. P.S. Did the developer even pass the game himself on the highest difficulty? I think not.

Прикольная игра стилевая

trop duuuuuur mais trop bieeeen