A game that I just could not help but root for even when it was doing things I wasn't a huge fan of. John Johanas is really going places, between this and Evil Within 2 the guy seems to really know what he's doing. This is insanely polished and focused. Really dug the artstyle and the character designs are great as well. Funny enough I think the audio mixing by default leaves the music a little quiet.
Despite being pretty alright at both action games and rhythm games, something about the way this works here never quite clicked in my head, though I acknowledge that's likely on my end. The fact I saw this through regardless is a testament to how good everything else is. That said, I do think that a lot of the finer points of character action design were not quite nailed here - optimal play seems to be spamming your assists whenever they get off cooldown while hammering along to the beat, and having some enemies designed to be invulnerable to all but one attack that is on a cooldown, even if a short cooldown, I find kind of antithetical to how games like this should work. Excited to see what Tango and specifically what John Johanas ends up doing next.
Despite being pretty alright at both action games and rhythm games, something about the way this works here never quite clicked in my head, though I acknowledge that's likely on my end. The fact I saw this through regardless is a testament to how good everything else is. That said, I do think that a lot of the finer points of character action design were not quite nailed here - optimal play seems to be spamming your assists whenever they get off cooldown while hammering along to the beat, and having some enemies designed to be invulnerable to all but one attack that is on a cooldown, even if a short cooldown, I find kind of antithetical to how games like this should work. Excited to see what Tango and specifically what John Johanas ends up doing next.