Sound Horizons

Chouette petite expérience agréable mais pas si facile non plus (Pour moi, en tout cas...). Le système des notes qui font varier la musique et les différents environnements (Qui font varier le visuel, les instruments et même le rythme des notes à choper) font bien plaisir (Même si c'est moins évident sur l'avant-dernier). Ca vaut son petit coup d'oeil !

Игра Sound Horizons — это настоящее погружение в мир звука и ритма, где каждый шаг, каждое действие отзывается мелодией. Её уникальная механика, основанная на синхронизации с музыкой, затягивает с первых минут, превращая обыденные задачи в увлекательные музыкальные пазлы. Графика, выполненная в стиле минимализма, лишь подчёркивает красоту звукового оформления, создавая атмосферу спокойствия и сосредоточенности. Игра отлично подходит для тех, кто ищет нечто новое и нестандартное, желает развить слух и чувство ритма, или просто хочет расслабиться под приятные мелодии. Прогресс в игре ощущается плавно, а новые испытания появляются ровно в тот момент, когда кажется, что ты уже освоил предыдущие. Sound Horizons — это не просто игра, это целое музыкальное путешествие, которое оставит приятное послевкусие.

Overall, it's a pleasant experience if you're good at rhythm games like this! Despite all what I said badly about the game, I don't think I've given it enough time to play and get used to, I still think it's a fun experience for most and it's worth at least trying. Remember to adjust the settings to your preferences! I'm currently looking for examples of procedural audio in games. This game does it pretty okay, though the sound balance by default isn't good for me and after adjusting the audio to my preferences, it made it less difficult. The game's style looks amazing how the mountains develop into a night sky and such, one of my favourite styles in backgrounds is this minimal theme this game has, it looks really nice and honestly I'd love to have it as my wallpaper haha. I love the idea of the game, the concept and execution of it came out really well, the gameplay feels good and it's exactly as I was expecting from what the steampage advertised. The controller integration is great, the pause menu is probably the best I've seen for a rhythm game at how it doesn't stop the music entirely. What was difficult to enjoy however is how punishing this was for missing a note off by 1 or 2 frames! I think the game gives some form of give with how the UI has a fade, but when you hit that black circle level in stage 1; holy moly you only have a shield and then the moment you lose again you instantly have to reset to the next level from the beginning of the stage prior. It's just simply too punishing imo at those stages. It's hard to gauge the speed at which notes come due to the perspective, it took a good 15 minutes to get used to that, but that black circle piano part was just insufferably difficult I had to stop playing, I kept going back and forth from that black circle stage and the one prior for 10 minutes, which honestly became so frustrating. I am aware of the menu options which remove this, but I like this form of punishment in these kind of games, I just don't like how punishing it is in some stages. I know it's a "skill issue" in this sense, but, genuinely for a starter level to someone being introduced to a rhythm game, it's way too punishing with no way to quickly recover without having to risk dropping even more down. There's also no visual indicator of BPM, it's hard to tell what the BPM is due to how much delay is on the envelopes of the instruments, so it makes it harder to get an internal metronome.