Beat The Game

Emmm, i just can't recommend game at this state to buying. Beat this Game less a hour, and i have a feeling more like a demo play, that a real game. One small level with two state, no story, no "music maker", high pile of unused items, couple of bugs, seems like unfinished EA. All "game" it self it's just collect sounds and in last part press highlighted buttons on mixer. If review this like a demo, it's very promising, nice art and music, but not sure about more content or DLC later. So just wait for discount or some kind of bundle with it. P.S. I hoped for something like Fract OST meets Jazzpunk... This one also not bad at all, but tooo short.

As far as I can tell [b] Beat the game [/b] is not a finished product or at the very least, not a smooth experience. So the unique mechanic in the game is finding sounds for 8 step sequencer (basically you can play the game to your own soundtrack created from those sounds) Was the mechanic utilized intuitively? Not really. It is just kind of there as a sandbox tool and it did not create any worthwhile gameplay elements. Although I really enjoyed the aesthetic there are noticeable issues with camera lag and the flickering world. For $7 I expected a more refined experience considering 60-90 minute length. [b] 8 Step Sequencer & Sound problems [/b] If you ever tried composing music on PC you will find a familiar 8 step sequencer as the focus of this game (like a beat VST) Which is a really cool concept but the game does not incorporate it well into gameplay.For a game that is meant to be all about sound, there are significant audio problems. You can turn your own music on/off but there ...

It's barely over an hour long including a lunch break, and the "gameplay" is just wandering until you can play a very handholding "live show" at the end. The setting looks interesting, but there's nothing behind it. The point of videogames is for things to be interactive, instead of just being looked at. There's no characterization, no story, no real gameplay, nothing. All you get is a mixer with predetermined bits of music, eg drums, hi-hats, droning wails, cowbells and that sort of stuff that you can play on top of each other 6 sounds at a time. Works as an interesting demo for something bigger and complete, but as a standalone it's hardly worth your money.

Friends don't let friends drop acid and ride their bikes through the desert. . . Or do they?...

This game is well-made, quirky, and unique. The mechanism of finding and collecting sounds is fun to play, and the world that the developers have created is beautiful and surreal. The obvious caveat with this game is that it is unlikely to take you more than an hour or so to complete. It's clear that the developers meant to make a much longer game; there are characters and objects that tie into future parts of the story that just don't exist. (Despite the 'to be continued', I don't expect the full game ever to see the light of day.) It would be sad, though, to let that put you off completely. What is there of the game is well-realised and complete in itself -- the level that you play does lead you up to a satisfying end point. The mechanisms are fun, and I hugely enjoyed playing it. My only real criticism, beyond the short length, is that there's little help in finding the sounds. They're mostly easy to discover, but I ended up spending the last twenty minutes or so wandering around...

Beat The Game has a ton of style but is unfortunately incredibly short and somewhat barebones. Upon initially booting up the game I was hoping for a surreal narrative experience, however what came to follow was more of a visualizer and mixer with an accompanying desert area than much else. Yes, only ONE area. Look at the screenshots and trailers for the game, they all take place in one desert locale. That is the game's biggest shortcoming. You pick up a variety of items and have to interact with certain sections of the game's one world, but the fact that you are navigating the same somewhat desolate desert landscape and repeating the same task (point at things in the environment to sample musical clips from..) makes for a pretty short, experimental experience. Beat The Game is by no means unappealing, it has a cool visual style, good animation, and the sound design is well-done, it just feels more like a proof of concept or demo-length ordeal than a fleshed-out game. The ideas in wh...

Hmm, I don't get it, I played through and collected all the mixer sounds, then played at the soundsystem, then I get a "to be continued..." message. This should be clearly marked as a 1-level demo. Is it just because I'm on Linux?

Not bad at all: Original, fun and the price is fair! If you want to try a different and interesting game with nice music, you should try this.

The trailer says: Adventure game meets music making, and neither is really true. Visually, the whole thing isn't bad at all, so the character and the environment look pretty good. The idea of collecting sounds and then mixing them as you like would have had potential if it had been thought through a little more, it almost seems as if the ideas ran out in the middle of development, or there was no more acid, I don't know. Although I really don't like this style of music, I just wanted to check it out, not rant about the music. And I don't have to, because there's far too much to criticize here. Every now and then the collected sound is all over the place and junbled up , like a bad DJ who can't do transitions, and it's annoying. Speaking of annoying, the camera is annoying AF. The movements of the character really don't look nice or smooth and sometimes he can walk through rocks, but then again not over flat cables, or whatever that is. The controls aren't that great either. My C...

I would barely call this a game. Everything takes place on a very small map where there is very little to do beyond collect some sounds. Collecting sounds doesn't really involve much beyond either pointing your sound collector at something long enough, or finding some items that let you interact with something. Get all of the sounds (which doesn't take very long at all) and you get to do the final part of the game where it literally highlights everything you have to do, so there is no puzzle or free gameplay unless you feel like prolonging things. So, here is a quick rundown of what you do: [spoiler]Use your sound collector to hover on things for five seconds. Open your mixer for the first time as it makes a random thing show up that doesn't actually have any impact on the game. Mixer appears to serve no purpose after that beyond to hear the sounds you collected until the very end. Pick up some items that let you interact with some other things to get a few more sounds. Trigger a day...