Developer: Berserk Studio
Publisher: Berserk Studio
RRP: £15.49 (Steam)
Released: 31st May 2018
Available on: Steam
I had the opportunity to play this while attending this years Coxcon as a stall holder. You could hear the music from the other side of the hall. It was only a demo copy but I played that game every opportunity I got during the course of the weekend. I knew this was a game I had to own when I found that the music wasn’t irritating even after a entire weekend of it.
Just Shapes & Beats is a rhythmic bullet hell and a damned good one too. The rules of the game are simple yet very effective, avoid the pink. Of course the screen gets very full of pink quite quickly, thankfully you have a dash ability that makes you impervious for the time of the short dash.
You can take several hits before your avatar dies, in that event the level rewinds to the most recent check point (except in boss battles where it goes right to the start of the track). However you also only get three tries before the level ends entirely forcing you to start all over again.
The soundtrack to this game is very good, boasting some quite well known names in the video game world; Big Giant Circles, Sabrepulse and Bossfight to name a few. In fact I was so impressed with the games music that I bought the game and its soundtrack as soon as I was home.
Honestly there isn’t much more I can say, the game is a lot of fun and will be great at a party, especially since they included a ‘Party Mode’ that allows you to have the music and gameplay with no consequences for failure. And I’d be remiss to not mention that there is also local, public and private multiplayer available, which I have to say is insanely fun.
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