Quick Look: Symphony

Liberate your music!

Doremi!

Yumm, Breakfast quick look!

This looks like fun.

I FEEL LIBERATED!

Music is the weapon!

Ohh.a quicklook before i go to work

Awesome

You guys should do a quick look on Oniken available on desura, 8-bit goodness :)

I love that Vinny's goto Filter track is "Take My Picture" and not "Hey Man, Nice Shot."

This actually looks good (well, except for anything that relates to the music integration...).

Looks pretty good, might give it a go.

looks neat

Seems like another one of these Indie rhythm games like Beat Hazard or Rhythm Zone that fails to create an unambiguous link between the music used and the level it generates. A decent Indie shooter with randomized formations and a customizable soundtrack is a fair enough prospect, so why even bother trying to sell the "music defines the stage" integration angle?

The music integration actually starts to become more and more apparent the higher the difficulty you play it on. If they do play it longer it'll click in. Around the 3rd level of difficulty and you have to be in the groove to get things going, and some songs still kick my ass. Lovely game tho. Worth it.

This looks like Beat Hazard, but not as seizure-inducing.

@Mento said:

Seems like another one of these Indie rhythm games like Beat Hazard or Rhythm Zone that fails to create an unambiguous link between the music used and the level it generates.

Yeah, and that's really a shame. I had this game described to me last night and I was pretty much sold immediatly, but the music integration looks really...Shallow.

Looks kind of cool, will check this out

Happy launch day everyone!!!

@Bats: totally right! feels like it was called out on not being integrated enough too soon.

Even the track they used with the subwoofer was not a great example, my first track with it was bass heavy and that subwoofer was awesome, size of the note was controlled by how much bass it was getting as you would expect, and on beat. it becomes a little bit about getting the right load out for the songs you're playing.

as a "music guy", I always pick up the music integration games that let me use my own library. I have to say that I'm having more fun with this than most of the other so far. Obscure musical tastes have been leading to a lot of empty leaderboards (obviously that's a me problem), and I've been having some crashing issues, but I'd assume that those will get worked out.

Been playing this, pretty fun. Much better when you get to the higher levels. Gets better with more weapon variety to.

MDC and Kmfdm name drops in a ql, good on yah vin and jeff :P

.wma files? It's gonna find all your porn!

Although there probably is a lot of cool stuff in this game to unlock eventually, first impressions are telling me that Beat Hazard is much more fun.

Hey look its geometry wars.

anyone know if it has last.fm support?

@Xymox said:

anyone know if it has last.fm support?

It does not have last.fm support.

(ref)

@seanon said:

Obscure musical tastes have been leading to a lot of empty leaderboards

I have that problem with Audiosurf; I'm world champion in shitty jazz metal fusion and Wesley Willis songs.

I don't know if I'll dig this as much as Beat Hazard. Is there more enemy variety later on?

@d0rks said:

@Xymox said:

anyone know if it has last.fm support?

It does not have last.fm support.

(ref)

aaw, okay. thanks

@MAD_JIHAD: Don't insult geometry wars!

My band actually played a show with Dynasty Electric awhile back. Despite having siamese hair, they're nice / talented people.

I'd rather stick with Beat Hazard. The mouse control for movement just looks and feels awkward and takes you out of the feel of the music.

Oh, another one of those games where they pretend like the music you're playing has some kind of effect on what's going on. Cute.

Scan your computer and an online login is a bad combination.

Quick, I need to put on my tin foil hat.

So who is going to be the first person to play this week's Bombcast in this?

If they had four subwoofers on their ship. this game would be exactly what they want it to be.

A music integration game with loot drops? Uhhh, yeah, I'm all kinds of sold.

Looks fine. The music integration seems rather peripheral though.

I just liberated my music all over my pants, it's everywhere!

Lol at Jeff wanting a sandwich.

Reminds me a lot of Beat Hazard.

I just played it and this game is effing amazing. Really enjoying it.

You can actually get weapons that integrate with the music much more, like the subwoofer that fires based on the Bass beat.

This looks pretty neat, and I really liked the sound of that Dynasty Electric band. I approve of this quick look!

It's annoying when the demon (randomly?) shows up and robs you of your leader board score. Don't like that at all.

No one wants to mention that the song was ELECTRIC GLOVE! as in the drink created by our very own bombers, drop those electric gloves inside our glass!

@chu52: Love*

They should've tried it with some blast-beat infected death metal, or perhaps some Marduk in full gear, their "Panzer Division Marduk" album in other words. That stuff would have spawned a lot of enemies if I understood the concept behind this game correctly.

Should have tried some Strapping Young Lad with that thing just to see if the game could handle it.

As someone who owns Beat Hazard, Audiosurf, and The Polynomial its a safe bet that I'm going to pick this one up too.