Welcome to our review of Vectronom, a very high speed game that is all about listening to the music!
A hypnotic video game about music, geometry and flow. Feel like solving three-dimensional riddles to a frenetic electronic soundtrack? Let Vectronom inject its colorful madness into your life! It’s easy to get into the groove but can you stick to the beat?
Welcome to the psychedelic world of Vectronom: experience waves of color and a pulsing geometric path that changes with the beat… All set to a hypnotic electronic soundtrack. There’s only one thing to do: turn up the volume and go with the flow.
Find your path through an ever-changing world, keeping the rhythm with every move you make. Think it sounds easy? The highly intuitive and addictive gameplay will keep you moving through daunting challenges… But how long will you last when the challenges get trickier and trickier? Better play to find out!
Set off on a solo campaign with just your headphones for company, or invite a few friends to join the party!♪ UNTZ! UNTZ! UNTZ! ♪
Vectronom is taking puzzle games to the next level, incorporating sounds and rhythm with pure speedlike features. The field will change together with the music and it is your job to finish the levels without failing the rhythm.
So when you start, you can basically bounce one in four ways. You follow the rhythm and the playing field. At certain sounds, bits of the playing field changes, all tuned finely to the beat. Sometimes the field disappears, sometimes it reappears. There are times that spikes come out of the ground only to disappear a few beats later.
Using jumping pads to reach far away places with a rhythmic spike coming out of the ground, it all comes down to timing. Nothing more than utter timing. There is a level in the earlier stages that just makes it so damn clear that this game is hard but not impossible. While there is no real big novel feeling to this game, it has to be said that the developers did take a fine approach with this game.
Vectronom is all about rhythm without having the feeling you are playing the rhythm game genre, it will feel so much more like a puzzle game, which it obviously also is, but that is exactly the power of a great game.
Co-produced and published by ARTE, Vectronom is the first video game from independent studio Ludopium. The prototype was developed in the Franco-German accelerator program Spielfabrique. The game has already won several awards, including “Best Game” at the Indie Arena Booth at Gamescom 2018 and GDC’s “Best in Play” 2019.
In conclusion, I agree with the Best game moniker, though I would not mind a more easy approach or option for the younger ones among us, the entry to this game might be easy but it is also hard to really master. Will that eventually be its downfall, I do not know and do not wish to speculate, as for now, I just have fun with this fun game!
