Anything red in the game can kill you. Once in a while, traversal gets switched up radically like when you're gliding through a thick suspension of stars or floating skyward via a swath of bubbles. In the last game that came from Mak's Queasy Games studio, players shot their way through trippy landscapes learning how various elements in each level interacted with each other.
The focus on music is stronger than in Shooter —where the levels played out for the length of a song—but there's less aggression. While Sound Shapes allows for tactile play with music, it also layers specific rules on top of that play. The beat is your master and you need to adhere to rhythm's rules if you want to make it to the end of each level.
Along the way you'll encounter chanting clouds, vocalizations you can zoom across and tiny spaceships that flirt with deadly red geometry. There's also antigravity bubble streams, angry 8-bit sprites and dreamy icescapes. Sound Shapes abounds with little touches that make the whole game exponentially more charming. A tickle of discovery gets interwined into the classically structured platformer mechanics. I chuckled every time I got introduced to the different elements in a set of levels, even if I'd met their look-different, play-the-same cousins minutes earlier.
Hey, you can ride those happy-faced projectiles. Those burpy-frog-looking things I can bounce off of make funny noises and get me over barriers, too. It all feels charmingly holistic, with the net effect of tweaking your perceptions ever so slightly.
You begin to rely on your ears—and not just your eyes—to tell you the right moment to jump between a crossfire of laser beams.
All that psychedelia is even prettier for how it highlights the intricate structures holding the experience together. Sound Shapes never evokes the response of "I'm wigging out and this makes no sense. The game's synaesthetic mechanics don't stop it from being a good platformer, though. Each album is peppered with leaps that seem impossible to make and moments that push you to the brink of giving up.
The DeadMau5 themed levels in particular are aggravating twitchfests where reflexes will win the day. But even those sections delighted me with the way I could happen upon weird little homages to old-school gaming while trying to stay on beat and survive. The biggest downside to Sound Shapes is how short its campaign mode is. Including the short tutorial, you get five albums, each with three to five levels each. However, there's already dozens of user-generated levels for players to bounce through on day one of Sound Shapes ' life.
And crafting your own tracks in the level editor—where you can use the enemies and elements you unlock in the campaign mode—is invitingly easy. When you make a level in Sound Shapes , you're also making music. Topic Archived Page 1 of 2 Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. Boards Sound Shapes How long does it take to Platinum? User Info: TheExiled User Info: Hayabusa Didn't get a chance to play more than a stage or two on Tuesday so most of my playing time came yesterday and got the platinum so didn't take long at all.
And it wasn't that I had some long marathon session with it either since I spent most of the day doing other stuff. User Info: lionhartwolf. Got mine in probably 5 total hours as well. Death modes are luck, as already said. Be patient, you're not doing anything wrong - you'll do everything right one play and be 7 notes from finishing when time runs out. Another time, you'll do everything right and you'll finish with 7 seconds to spare.
The beat school can be fairly tricky provided you don't cheat - and there's plenty of ways to do so. I only cheated on the drum loops and DJ scratch one since I just have no ear for that whatsoever.
By the way, is this the only downloadable title with a platinum trophy, other than Wipeout HD? Here's to hoping. Another side question - does my platinum count twice if I did it on PS3 and synced it with my vita, popping the trophies there?
Playing: lots of things. Check the number of platinum you have? Wondering the same, but I'm doing more creation and user created level than the campaign.
User Info: RaisinBizzle. I know trine 2 has a platinum. Yeah the platinum will count twice as will all the trophies. Feel like I am forgetting something else with cloud saves that syncs trophies Foosball has cloud saves but doesn't sync trophies and also messes up the trophies on the other system.
A lot of PSN games with platinums. User Info: Thrillwell. Trine 2, also known as, the easiest platinum in the world. Good job on Sound Shapes for anyone who gets the plat.
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