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
I love the basic gameplay idea of associating shapes with 4 controller buttons, and combining them in pairs of 2. It's an idea that his been copied many times. Even more impressive is the idea of showing the shapes in 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 also looks super neat. A few times during the levels, shapes are moving in different overlapping speeds at once, but ending up in the right place for the rhythm, a very cool 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 issues, Vib-Ribbon is a unique and awesome game.
2025-09-17
(good)
