Rhythm Race

It's very good. you need to have a good sync with the music.

[b]TL;DR: Can't really recommend myself, but there is (was?) some potential, and it could entertain the right audience for a bit.[/b] As a short rhythm game, I like the little twist of having to memorize a small set of colors and select the right one at the right time. However, I feel there are lots of issues here and there. - Musically, some songs are alright while others seem downright weird in the context, and perhaps more importantly, the songs usually seem to have very low sound quality (problems with recording, mixing, compressing?), which doesn't bode well considering the type of game this aims to be. - Some of the controls are weirdly finicky. You have to press space a bit before reaching those dots, which is easy to get used to, but for some reason, it seemed impossible to get any dot right once you missed one in a series. Also those dots don't provide enough visual feedback once you hit them (or not). - The tracks themselves generally lack in terms of excitement. It does sometimes feel like you are navigating the music (especially in the later songs), with dots, arrows and rectangles following various notes at high speed, but other times, it feels more like you are acting as a metronome, hitting a seemingly randomly chosen colored element once in while. - The tutorial doesn't explain how to deal with the arrow patterns. - Anytime you finish a song, you get pushed back to the title screen instead of the song selection screen, and the game doesn't record what difficulty you're currently playing, always remaining on medium by default. - The racing part doesn't "truly" bring anything significant to the experience. You get a ranking in the end but that's about it, as you never interact with other cars during play (I tend to forget the cars are there). And they are super inconsistent from one song to another. I couldn't get first place in the first hard song because I had missed 3 notes, yet I crushed all competition in the last song at hard by missing perhaps a quarter of the notes. Not that it seems to matter anyway. - The visuals... well sadly there isn't much really. Everything feels the same, very minimalistic, mostly static, and not necessarily much worth to mention. They could do more to help making this feel like what it's supposed to be: some kind of intense, futuristic race. As it stands, I cannot possibly recommend the game. For some fans of lesser-known rhythm games, it might bring temporary entertainment with a somewhat different yet not necessarily very polished concept. At the current price anyway, it's not outrageous. 4/10 [i]I do take note that the game is supposedly undergoing "many changes in mechanics and visuals". Let's see what arises from this. [/i]