Sayonara Wild Hearts

For a music game, it doesn't really empower you to build multipliers or look for different ways of achieving high scores for its levels. It simply expects you to bend to its will and play each level exactly as it wants in order for you to achieve a high rank. The controls are slippery and imprecise in a way that feels neither challenging nor satisfying. The music is cute, but a very bland take on Chvrches-like synthpop that feels sort of off brand, not unlike royalty-free versions of popular songs. And its general "exploration" of heartbreak, if you want to call it that, is really surface-level feel-good pablum that doesn't really connect itself to the ludonarrative in the way, say, something like Braid does. I love rhythm games, so I was super looking forward to this, but it felt painfully shallow if mildly enjoyable on an aesthetic level.