No. of Reviews: 20
Review 1
Purchased!
Grab the soundtrack; skip the game.
chipzel's soundtrack is amazing and absolutely worth the download. The game is
boring. Simple steer left or right.
Review 2
Purchased!
Brilliant little game. I love the music and love how tough it is. As a veteran
player of Trackmania, I still fnd this a challenge!
Maybe one day I'll get all the achievements....
Review 3
Purchased!
If you are a fan of Chipzel's music buy the album and go buy audiosurf 1 or 2
and play it there you will have a way better time there. This game has the same
concept as that racing game in the 200-in-1 game your grandmother buys you when
you were 7 except somehow they screw with the controls. They feel extremely
sluggish as if the same grandmother who bought you the 200-in-1 game was the
driver of the car, most the time im holding the left or right arrow and the car
barley turns either direction but gods forbid i let go and the car go right back
to its original position faster than light. Now i am a fan of difficult games i
played super hexagon, dark souls, demon souls, dank suits 2, all the touhou's
and those have a learning curve and the deaths in those games dont feel half as
cheap as the one's in this game and most of the time its because grandma wont
turn the car fast enough.
So there if you find this game's concept enjoyable buy the 200-in-1 version and
buy the sound track its a way better use of your money.
Review 4
Purchased!
You call this a racing game, but I know an endless runner when I see one. Dull
and derivative. Chipzel, though.
Review 5
Purchased!
I love this Game. Play with your keyboard ant its not that easy. Soundtrack is
great and pumping.
Review 6
Purchased!
A simplistic but fun arcade racer with a neat soundtrack and aesthetic - it's
certainly nothing extraordinary but can be very relaxing and doesn't cost a lot
of money.
Review 7
Purchased!
Addicting!
Catchy music.
Easy to learn, but not to easy to master.
Review 8
Purchased!
I love challenges, if you want a game that won't hold your hand all the way
through then Spectra is for you.
The music is great, Chipzel hits the spot.
Definitely worth buying.
Review 9
Purchased!
Truly, an amazing experience. I actually played this when it was on show at a
convention; it was good then, and it's still good now. A flawless soundtrack, a
pulse racing gaming experience, and all around very entertaining.
My only issues have been occasional frame tearing (which, considering I'm using
a gaming laptop, is somewhat concerning), and the fact that I would have
preferred to get it on my Xbox One, but it was pulled from the marketplace
before I could purchase it.
Thank you anyway; an amazing game that has obviously had heart and soul poured
into it.
Review 10
Purchased!
The game released to a sound of applause from the indie community, and had a
kick ass soundtrack to go with it. Many bugs on initial release but time would
fix things.
3 years on and not a single bug has been fixed. No replies from the developers,
and the result is a mildly repetitive game that you can enjoy for a couple of
hours at most. Simple mechanic changes and a round of bug fixes would give this
game a good shelf life, but it seems the devs were more interested in a cash
grab.
Do not buy this game. Support the artist, buy the album, and potentially play
Audiosurf 2 with it instead.
Review 11
Purchased!
This game became super addicting. I found this out due to my firned owning it on
his xbox one, and I played it until 3 in the morning. I beat all 10 levels in a
couple hours, and it was super fun to do. I recommend this game to all, but make
sure to grab a couple friends and take turns, it gets really intense!
Review 12
Purchased!
So addictive. sad that this game is getting lots of hate.
Review 13
Purchased!
its gud
Review 14
Purchased!
I actually did not know this was a game since I had been listening to the
soundtrack for so long. As a game, it's really simple, maybe too simple. You
just move left and right and try not to fall off the map, there's no filters or
anything, not even an options menu. But I am so in love with the soundtrack,
that I can see myself playing this game for quite a while since it gives me
something to do while listening to one of the greatest chiptune soundtracks of
all time.
Review 15
Purchased!
Great soundtrack full of chiptunes, but unfortunately little else about this
game is good. This game could and should be so much better but instead it feels
like so much wasted potential.
The controls are terrible: You'll be sliding dramatically left and right even
with the slightest press of the controls, as if the entire game is covered in a
thick sheet of ice. In a game where obstacles are often placed in rapid
succession, this makes it almost impossible to actually avoid everything. If
you're lucky, you'll grind off the side of something and get bonus points. If
you're not, you'll bounce off of the very same thing and fly off the track,
immediately ending the level.
The levels are procedurally generated in such a way that you can get a different
track even when playing the same stage at a different time, so while this adds
some variety it also makes the game feel even more inconsistent. It feels like
the the music should be synced to the gameplay but it never is. This might be in
part because the start-of-level animation also starts the music, meaning you can
skip up to 15 seconds of the song just by letting that play out.
There are plenty of smaller quirks that make the game feel unsatisfying and
frustrating. If it detects a controller, you can't interact with the game using
keyboard and mouse at all; it will refuse to cooperate. When using keyboard and
mouse, you have to use the keyboard in the game but the mouse to navigate
everything else: you can't use mouse controls like in Audiosurf and there is no
way to quickly replay a level or advance to the next without using the mouse.
Smaller issues, such as an in-game timer that always shows 0 tenths of a second,
pale in comparison to the greater problems with this title.
Review 16
Purchased!
Spectra is simple. Move left and right to dodge the powerful obstacles..But what
they don't tell is the finer nature of the game. The fun you can have drifting
across the track, being fancy as you gain airtime off turns and even the ledge
if you're daring enough. The way you start bouncing into the air if you get hit
enough. And the amazing 8-bit chiptune music album by Chipzel has something for
everyone. Every level is regenerated when you start from the menu, so you can
quickly swap out a particular design if you don't like it.
10/10
Review 17
Purchased!
tbh i got this game cuz chipzels music is great (thanks just shapes and beats
for introducing me to it) but the game is actually pretty boring.
Review 18
Purchased!
Spectra is exactly the game I was expecting, while listening to the eponym album
by Chipzel.
You ride and it makes you feel badass. The scoring system is interesting since
you earn points by doing dangerous actions (like touching the walls), but be
careful, if you bump into them, you lose your multiplier (you gain multiplier
with boost on the floor) AND the point you accumulated from your chains.
At first, you have to take the maximum of Yellow Pixels you can. Don't take
everything if you know that you'll lose them.
So if you wanna score well, you have to know when you have to take a break,
resetting your multiplier to zero but counting the accumulated points to your
total points. Those points cannot be lost.
Be careful to not fall from the track, because it's game over.
Awesome game, and Chipzel is a really big plus. <3
Review 19
Purchased!
This album's great, 100% worth your money. Also comes with a game, which isn't
very good.
Review 20
Purchased!
This game is not bad and has potential, but is a skeleton of what it could be
with some added mechanics. It feels like once you've played one map you've
played them all, but with some additional mechanics it would make me more
inclined to play it more. Agile, innovative, and/or swift gameplay make this
experience better than Mind Dead, would 0/0 picks STRONG MECHANICAL INNOVATION
100% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
