Ending B

Well... it could be worse

Short review of Synaesthete

by Ed Van Loon

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

I love indie games.

No, seriously, I like independent games, though I think this was obvious by my previous posts about World of Goo and Cave Story (both of which became WiiWare titles, imagine that).

Oh yeah, I'm supposed to post pictures here, right?

Action and Music?!  Count me in!

So, enough with the exposition. You control this little dude with the WASD keys (as is standard in most keyboard mouse FPS games), but your attacks are used with the JKL buttons, which are represented by moving bars that come from the top of the screen.

Is this ringing any bells? That's right, this is a rhythm game! On top of maneuvering around the enemies on the screen, you have to hit those three buttons as the bars hit a certain point on your screen. Let me just say that the first boss fight was a little tricky at first, but that was probably because I was playing on the harder difficulty to start out with.

To those that know me, for me to jump into the harder difficulty in a rhythm game should come at no surprise, after all, I am a veteran of the genre, but this game is rather different. Of course, I considered it innovative, but that seems to be par for the course over at DigiPen.

See it for yourself, go ahead and download it here and feel free to check out some gameplay videos by searching for it on youTube.

Have fun everyone!