Punching is cool, however what if punching was instigated by musical notes as an alternative? Properly, developer Modus Studios preferred that concept, and the result’s God of Rock, a preventing recreation that pits rival musicians towards each other.
Mechanically, God of Rock is strong. Whereas it is a preventing recreation, the core of the expertise depends on be aware charts a la Rock Band, or, most overtly, the Persona rhythm video games. Moderately than conventional punches and kicks, you need to hit notes on a chart to the beat of the music. The longer the music goes with out a winner, the extra complicated the be aware charts get. In the event you’re not swift, the charts can get completely psychological. Sadly, the large soundtrack of 40 songs does blur collectively a bit, and it’s virtually inconceivable to differentiate one monitor from the opposite.
Curiously, conventional particular strikes and breakers are within the recreation. Relying on which of the colourful, distinctive characters you choose, your moveset will fluctuate significantly. Sadly, given how a lot of your consideration is demanded by the be aware chart, it’s exhausting to actually admire every of the 12 character designs, a lot of that are influenced by well-known musicians like Bowie or Elvis.
That is thanks partially to the particular strikes that we talked about. Whereas exhausting to maintain monitor of initially, as you change into extra able to multi-tasking you’ll discover that most of the strikes provide wild mechanical variance. Some specials heal, some require charge-ups, others drop additional notes onto your opponent’s chart that may’t be eliminated, and so forth. They add a very attention-grabbing ingredient of technique to the expertise that calls upon what you’d count on from the best stage of play within the likes of Road Fighter or Mortal Kombat.
Whereas the AI will quickly discover you an excessive amount of to deal with, even at larger difficulties, the web element is the place the specials actually shine. The technique of selecting when to fit your assaults in turns into paramount. It’s straightforward to lose the rhythm of the music should you get too cocky. So long as the sport can nurture and keep a participant base there ought to be ample motive to maintain coming again to God of Rock time and time once more.