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Every year I like to do a top 10 games I liked this year (Regardless of when they released)

Here's that #scruffyGOTYtop10 for 2024

10. #Everhood

Beaten : No
Time played so far : 3h

Weird funny random vibes and kind of undertal-y humor but not as actively cracking jokes, more just curiousity-fueling random and some intriguing nonsensical strange vibes

Guitar hero but dodgem up instead, novelty with great beats electro music

#gamerecommendations

March 15, 2024 - Day 440 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 475

Game: Everhood

Platform: Steam
Released: Mar 4, 2021
Installed: Aug 4, 2022
Unplayed: 588d (1y7m11d)
Playtime: 18m

Everhood is a pixel-art adventure RPG rhythm game mashup.

While it's an incredibly self-aware game that revels in its own weirdness, it effectively gates that weirdness off by the use of the rhythm game sections.

To progress in the game, you need to beat various characters in rhythm games, a la Rock Band, Guitar Hero, or Beatstar.

With one slightly, and incredibly frustrating difference. Instead of having to hit the marks on the beat, each rhythm section gives you five columns where you need to dodge pulses coming from the boss of the moment.

Even on the easiest level, I found myself frantically mashing the arrow keys and dying continuously.

Which means restarting the battle. Over and over.

I finally quit in frustration after 15 minutes, just to find I'd only been playing for 10 minutes.

I went back into the game, and found that if I stayed in the centre column, and mashed the up button with just the right timing, and no dodge attempts, I could manage to beat the *first* rhythm game.

A few minutes later the second rhythm game sent me back to the escape key to quit out.

While it seems like a fun game is somewhere in Everhood, am I going to go back and try to find it?

1: Nope

#Everhood #PixelArt #RPG #Rhythm #Gaming #ProjectONG