Turba

I would avoid it, there really isn't much going on here. The music doesn't seem to influence the gameplay much and you don't really feel like you have much control over what's going on. All of the game modes are pretty much the same. It's.. I mean, it is what it is, you clear colored blocks while listening to music. If you want to chill out and play descend or freeplay it's ok. Just, you know, getting a decent score is hard and like I said, it doesn't seem like you have a lot of control over that. I mean, they tried something new and I applaud the devs for that.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WASTE OF MONEY DO NOT GET

Stars received: 3.4/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions [0.6] Controls & Training & Help [0.3] Menu & Settings [0.5] Sound & Music [0.5] Graphics [0.4] Game Design [0] Game Story [0.5] Game Content [0.6] Completion time (level/game)? [0] is it Enjoyable & Fun? [0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) [0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related [0] BONUS point: Review for VR [N] - if Registration is required with providing PII Game description key-points: clicker, match items of the same colour Overview: doesn`t feel enjoyable and visually pleasant, will blame it`s age rather than design

Ok, and the music angle does add some novelty. But the gameplay itself is more annoying than fun.

A lot of games have tried to incorporate rhythm and music into their gameplay as an inseparable part of it. On one hand, we have stuff like Rez, Lumines, Tetris Effect, and Bullets Per Minute that perfectly incorporate rhythm into their gameplay. On the another hand we have stuff like AudioSurf and Melody's Escape that give you the power to play with your own music, analyzing them thoroughly and giving you satisfactory results... and then we have Turba. The store page claims that Turba "provides a gameplay experience unlike any you have encountered before" and that is %100 correct; you probably have never seen such an awful implementation of rhythm into a video game. Though it is not the idea that has problems, the game's features have ultimately resulted in it becoming an unenjoyable mess. Turba claims that "the blocks on the game board generate and move to the beat of the song you choose", yet it is not true. The game utterly fails to analyze your music tracks properly and detect the beats, making the gameplay feel like you are playing a generic puzzle game with a random, irrelevant music playing in the background. Even if you do manage to find a music tracks that works great with the game, your are still not able to enjoy playing as the gameplay is also badly made. The gameplay consists of selecting the blocks on the playing field in a group of 3 or above by pressing left mouse button or dragging the mouse on them, and then removing them by pressing right mouse button. You can select and remove 1 or 2 blocks as well, but doing that causes a score reduction as well as the blocks turning grey, which means they are unselectable and undestroyable until they decay on their own. Seems harmless, but that changes when we get to know that the playing field is constantly moving. The playing field moves by the beat of your music; which means it has no rhyme and pattern to it, as we have previously established the beat detection simply does not work. Not only that, there are also bomb blocks that the game constantly spams (and often in hard to reach places) which explode after a certain number of beats have passed, turning a 3x3 field of normal blocks into grey blocks. It doesn't take much effort to see how chaotic and frustrating it can get to just select blocks, with the playing field's movement and grey blocks' decay constantly changing the arrangement of everything. Not to mention bomb blocks making faster songs (e.g. Through the Fire and Flames) absolutely impossible to go through as their timer can go down faster than you can react to them. Finally, I just have to talk about the game's audiovisual presentation because... God, it's so uninspired. Turba's original soundtrack is very underwhelming for a rhythm game. Usually, you expect a rhythm-based game to have a unique soundtrack of their own, something pleasant to listen to while you are playing, but Turba's soundtrack is so generic and unmemorable. And this generic-ness is also visible in the interface as well, with bland designs and claustrophobic placement of elements. Overall, I don't think Turba is worth playing. Don't waste your time with this game and go for something that actually works as intended and feels fun to play.

I had a hard time getting past the unfriendly user interface and not so obvious tactics of Turba. Nor did anything in the gameplay stand out to convince me that this is not your typical run-of-the-mill color matching game. Move along...nothing to see here.

Boyfriend gave it to me from a random hunble bundle code he got a long tim ago...played for a few minutes got bored. Even he asked why I was still with him after getting such a terrible game. The uninstall button works wonderful with the game. UPDATE: The person who gifted and I broke up I blame this game

it's an ok game for what it is i bought it for 1.50 it reminds me of audiotune but with bejeweled put in it.its a plus that you get to play it with your music.

Really great and addictive game. A much more productive way to listen to your iTunes library! It's just £0.87 in the sale now.

Solid concept, gaseous execution.