Game Review- 'The Sound Walk'

So during my scheduled tea breaks during these last few weeks of uni (not joking) Ive found a great way to relieve stress.

As most of you know Im usually on either Twitter or Newgrounds, Newgrounds is my favourite website, a place for anyone to upload their games, art, and animation and even sound scapes, it has a huge online forum and its great, any way. I came across this game called The Sound Walk, its by a guy called Cccplay, the aim of the game is to hit your arrow keys in time to the music so that you avoid things like monsters and stones blocking your path, there are three levels, Dream, Nightmare and Dementia. the latter being the hardest and without any guide as to when to hit your arrow keys.

I found this game completely charming and addictive, the game play its self can sometimes lag a little but you can turn off the sfx in the menu and that loosens it up a bit, the music is amazing and if you dont hit the right key or miss one it turns off making it harder to find your rhythem again. My favourite level is the second one, its soundtrack reminds me so much of the ost for American Mcgees Alice and I love the mechanical setting to it.

the character reminds me of Jack Skeleton on The Nightmare Before Christmas the backgrounds are beautiful but will make your head spin (litrally I felt so dizzy after playing the second level) and the monsters are intriguing and unique.

There are three levels to beat, and as I said before each with a 3 tier difficulty setting, there is also a fourth level which can be unlocked by beating 25 acheivements, I have so far only beaten 12! its very difficult as you cant earn an acheivement by playing the easy setting but it sure keeps you coming back!

I recommend everyone at least try this game, it can be frustrating when you think your on a home run with 100% near the end and then you trip... but still, its a great game. so TRY IT.

Nat