The Polynomial - Space of the music

REVIEW #25 The Polynomial ---------- Years ago, when I first noticed this game on Steam, the idea of a first-person shooter in space, decorated with fractal-based visuals based off of my own music, drew me in quickly. The game certainly matches that description, but what's kept me from fully enjoying this experience is the game itself... or to be more specific, the lack of game. The premise is simple: fly around an area, shoot bad guys, protect good guys, then go to another area. One major issue with this is the method of area selection: 2 wormholes are present in every map, and flying through one of them takes you to the next area or the previous one, depending on which wormhole you choose. There's no goal to reach in order to unlock these wormholes. They're ready to use right away. You simply go somewhere else when you choose to, and all that changes in most cases is the visuals. This wouldn't be so bad if there were other changes, like different enemies or new weapons, but there isn't. It's the same thing with a different background every time. Additionally, if you decide to stay in one area for a while, enemies will continuously spawn with (seemingly) no limit, which can make an area overwhelmingly crowded over time. As stated above, there's no goals, and there's also no leaderboards and no limit on lives. You simply fly around and shoot the same enemies with the same weapon until you're bored and decide to quit. There's no challenge to meet here at all. Also, while we're talking about missing features, if you're planning on adding your own music to the game's playlist, be aware that you cannot add files in groups or batches; files can only be added individually. Try as I might, the game would not let me add a folder of music files at once. On the flipside, even despite the game's age at this point, many of the special effects are very attractive, such as shooting stars in the background and the explosions of defeated enemies. The fractal-based backgrounds, however, are a mixed bag. The best way that I can synopsize how I feel about this title is that it feels like a game that was developed only 80% of the way. Had this game been polished up and worked on a little longer, it might've been a really fun title.

Ce jeu a été mis sur le marché 40 ans trop tôt. Doté de graphismes 16k, d'une jouabilité infinie, d'une story telling digne d'une saga d'Asimov, ce jeu saura vous faire échapper à la réalité et oublier que vous n'êtes qu'une fourmi sur cette planète et non le capitaine d'un navire à potentiel quantique. Bref, ce jeu a révolutionné ma vie, je ressens aujourd'hui l'envie d'adopter un chat et de lui faire plein de calins.

Eğer oynamayı başarabilirsem güzel bir oyun mu anlatabileceğim ama henüz ne olduğunu hala anlayabilmiş değilim. Oyun kolumu henüz tanıtamadım, klavye ile de kontrol etmeyi başaramadım, sürekli sağa sola kaçıyor odak noktası, ekranın ortasında kocaman bir yazı var kaldırmayı başaramadım ve üst ve alt komutlar ters orantılı hareket ediyor, bu insanlar hayatlarında hiç oyun oynamamış veya görmemişler belli ki. Kendi kafalarına göre bir oyun yapmışlar ama nasıl çalıştırılabildiği veya oynanacağı konusunda zerre fikir sahibi değiller. Geçiniz. Bedava iken alın deneyim o kadar.

完全没见过的无重力射击游戏，画面梦幻，以击杀橙色标记的敌人为目标，飞到友军身旁会获得增益或者吃掉升级会有暂时性增益，角色速度可以在中右侧绿色/红色条处查看，其他的就不是特别理解了，比如角色的行动方式之类的，感觉特别怪

I don't really get this game. I don't get what the name means. The music barely has presence, and doesn't impact the gameplay, so something like Beat Saber would be more engaging. The only points of reference are some dots and spheres so I don't get much of a sense of speed or leading targets as you slide around, and with no wingmen (and apparently no way to dodge incoming shots) the dogfighting experience is rubbish. The map doesn't help, as it's slanted - making it useless. Sometimes you seem to inexplicably die. Your score on one run might be 30, and then 3,000 on another, and then 30,000 on another. The highscores all maxed out at 2.1B. The menu is a little box in the top left. The game feels like an awkward and pointless gimmick. I played it back in 2011 and probably went that whole decade without thinking about it again. At 73% positive ratings for £4.99 it's overrated. I wouldn't even recommend it with a large discount.

very complicated process to add your own music tired to do the steps in this video . steam://openurl/https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810 did not work for me could not play music from my windows media player. Process was far to complicated found a better program for me project M and its free all you have to do is start the music and it automatically detects it no spaceship or power ups but it did what i wanted to much work when all i want to do is listen to my music and play product refunded after 2 hours trying to figure out how to add my own music . not possible for me

had no idea what i was doing whenever i played, it just looks nice. but hey they moved on to polynomial 2 by looks of things for vr which is the only thing to make it interesting rather than updating this one to have it, unfortunately i got this before steam refunds RIP

Одна из первых игр, что я купил на стиме. Много было наиграно тогда давно ещё в неофициальную версию. 11 лет спустя могу с уверенностью сказать, что много приятных эмоций было получено в местном космическом пространстве под Moly, milk white white teeth, God is an Astronaut и GY!BE. Можно посидеть и подумать о своём, помечтать. Правда при очень большом скоплении врагов она подлагивает и на 1070. Так что проблемы, видимо, отчасти из-за движка. Красивая отечественная игра. У автора крутой сайт dmytry.com с другим уютным софтом про фракталы и красивую математику.

6/10

Game was sort of like the old Descent, but with somewhat more slippery controls, and you could use your own music as the background. Ever since the middle of 2021 the game refuses to launch, even after uninstall, reinstall, and file verify. Sadly can no longer recommend this game.