Sunday, February 26, 2017

Thumper review



I've been meaning to do a review on this game like 3 months ago, I dont understand why I never did. But Thumper has to be one of the BEST rhythm based games to date! Thumper is truly classified as a rhythm-violence game that truly lives up to it's name. Your a space beetle who is trying to to overcome the hellish void and fight a maniacal head from the future. The game is EXTREMELY hard and does require a lot of focus and skill. When you first start the game off, you'll start off with a boss battle. And yes, the boss is a triangle spinning around. Now the very and probably the best thing about this game that you notice is the AMAZING sound design and effects. Every sound in this game is the reason why I haven't been able to stop playing it. Everything that you touch from the glowing rectangles, making a sharp turn or even flying sounds perfect. Now the controls for the game is very simple. You only use three buttons (Reviewing PC version): The space bar allows you to "thump" the glowing rectangles. You also use the up button to fly and the left and right button to turn. Pretty simple right? Well no no nooo. Each level they make it a bit more unique. When you click the space bar it'll allow you to thump the rectangles. If you HOLD it, it'll allow you to break bars that can harm you if you don't destroy them. And to turn, you gotta hold the space bar and the direction that you want to turn. This game get complicated real fast, as each level gets faster and faster each time. And thats pretty much all they tell you. Each level has sub-levels and you must complete all to beat the level. And for each sub-level that you complete, you get a score either C, B, A or S. If your trying to get a S, you must not miss or get hit ONCE or VERY little. Now something that game does't tell you is how to make your score higher. When you make a turn, you can just turn EASY. But, if you want a higher score, you'll need to perfect the turn which means turning at the RIGHT time, not too early and not to late. You'll definitely hear the difference when making a perfect or normal turn as the perfect turn sounds like your striking metal. To perfect the ENTIRE level, you must perfect every turn and hit EVERYTHING correctly. There is a leaderboard so many people are always competing to get the highest scores.

Lets talk about the gameplay now. Each level like I said has Sub-levels. The first 4 levels haves 3 boss battles including the final boss and every other level has 2 bosses including the final one. The bosses in the game are extremely cool to fight and some will really either seem beautiful to see or will freak you out (The 7th boss battle freaked to living shit outta me) When you start a level, you'll notice it has a pattern and after a boss battle it gets alot harder. From the first level to the 5th, you'll be shown something new that really changes the gameplay for the game. The biggest and hardest add-ons are probably the multiple lines and the RING OF DEATH. The multiple lines are when you'll have to move left and right to avoid missing any rectangles and bars and the ring of death will appear to harm or kill you if miss ANY rectangle. I do think though that it brings a good, but hard challenge to players. The gameplay is something that you'll enjoy if you really enjoy hard games and a good sounding game which I will talk about more below.

The last thing to cover is the game design. Looking at this game is visually amazing and beautiful at the same time. The game has a dim lit color scheme to it that make it seems that your in space and the indoor parts look trippy. The level 3 and level 8 boss probably have the trippiest looking designs in my opinion though. The game can visually mess you up, which is why I say you must be VERY focused.

Thumper in general is just perfect from rhythm game point of view, from the great visual design and effects and the AMAZING sound design and soundtrack, once you start playing, you'll be hooked for MONTHS (Me lol). I would rate this game a 9/10. It would be a perfect if the game wasn't EXTREMELY HARD, but It's why I love it!

Thank's for reading my review on Thumper! My next review will be on either For Honor or Resident Evil 7 (Working on both ATM).