I was also unable to find a preferred way to control the game. The neon-soaked visuals scream for a big-screen experience which a mobile device, even the biggest of tablets, just cannot provide. When I did screw up and crashed into a wall or something, it didn’t much matter as this has one of the most charitable checkpoint systems I’ve ever encountered, going so far as to let me completely skip a difficult section if it proved too troublesome.ĭespite the brilliance of Apple’s Retina screen, I don’t believe mobile is the best way to enjoy Wild Hearts.

Because of the blink-and-you-miss-it nature of each level’s design, I found myself playing catch-up with everything happening on screen rather than reacting in real-time. As I said before, Sayonara Wild Hearts is fast and oftentimes, it can feel unplayably fast.

Unfortunately, that appreciation doesn’t carry over to the gameplay. This might actually be my favorite album of the year. Emotion by Carl Rae Jepsen is the closest mainstream equivalence, but search YouTube for artists like MUNA, Millie Turner, and Charly Bliss and you’ll be right in Simogo’s wheelhouse. The songs you hear in Sayonara Wild Hearts isn’t the same type of music you’ll hear from the Maroon 5s or Katy Perrys of the world, you have to go more obscure to find tunes at this level.

If your only exposure to pop music is Top 40 radio, prepare to have your horizons expanded. There are tracks that are purely instrumental and those with lyrics, each perfectly attuned to what is happening on screen. You know, like how albums used to be before every artist figured out to game the Billboard Hot 100 since it started including music streams. Sayonara Wild Hearts is a complete pop album, one written and recorded as a cohesive experience.

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