Developer : NanaOn-Sha Genre : Music games Graphics : Vector graphics 1-bit Graphics Other Tags : Bunny games Achievements : retroachievements.org
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Vib-Ribbon
Review
Vib-Ribbon is an early rhythm game, with a unique art style and the option of playing levels generated from the music on any audio CD.
The gameplay idea of associating shapes with 4 controller buttons and combining them in pairs of 2 is neat and plays pretty well. A few times during the levels, shapes are moving in different overlapping speeds at once, but ending up in the right place to match the rhythm.
The shapes are rendered as a line, in the style of the 1970s animation 'La Linea'. The level graphics and your character shake when you're close to losing a health level, which is a great effect.
However, I don't think the levels are particularly well-designed, they don't teach you the shapes at a reasonable pace, and the difficulty seems to vary wildly within the levels. Also, I have to note that it was a incredibly strange choice of having all the included songs vary in speed for a rhythm game. It sounds weird and kind of bad, and makes the gameplay way more difficult.
Apart from these minor issues, Vib-Ribbon is a unique and awesome game.
2020-04-13
(good)