Sometimes you're not even on a road at all, and are just falling through a psychedelic, non-Euclidean dreamscape. Sometimes you're on a rumbling motorbike, and that motorbike has forward-mounted guns. Sometimes you are speeding through what looks like San Francisco on a skateboard. Levels and obstacles swing to the same beat as the music you're listening to, while lyrics will soar as you come to a particularly cool jump. Sayonara's excellent soundtrack is a collection of swooping, pulsing pop songs that feel both modern and retro at the same time, and it's a big part of the game's appeal. And, importantly, you have to move in time to the music.

It takes a bit to figure out exactly how responsive the controls are, since they have a bit of resistance to them, like pulling a rubber band or poking a stress ball. Her emotional problem can, it turns out, be controlled entirely via WASD or the arrow keys. Through this all, the girl will learn to deal with her own emotional problem (a tale as old as time, meaning Sayonara Wild Hearts is also Labyrinth/The Wizard Of Oz/Sucker Punch/Whatever). It becomes your job to restore balance to.stuff, through contests that are a combination of dance battles, high speed races and regular dust-ups, between mysterious masked motorbike gangs across strange, hyperunreal landscapes. This coincides with some kind of celestial backstabbery between beings to do with both the zodiac and the Major Arcana cards of the Tarot. In Sayonara Wild Hearts you are an unnamed heroine who has suffered a recent heartbreak. I barely managed to keep a lid on it all. The World, playing DDR in the arcade at the bowling alley when you're 13, the chaotic energy of DeeDee from Dexter's Lab, and the first time you go to a club and it has those cool lasers. Oh, and that mine cart level in the first Harry Potter game.īut Sayonara wild hearts is also the drag race scene in Grease, the 'Get in loser, we're going shopping!' of Mean Girls, almost all of Edgar Wright's version of Scott Pilgrim Vs. In terms of video games I felt Thumper, then (less obviously) Fe, plus SuperHot and Persona 5. Sayonara Wild Hearts is a sort of rhythm action arcade game, and as I played I kept getting flavours of different things. Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Release: Out now

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