{"id":96043,"date":"2020-01-04T14:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ind13.com\/?p=96043"},"modified":"2024-04-11T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:20:04","slug":"sayonara-wild-hearts-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intoindiegames.com\/pc\/sayonara-wild-hearts-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sayonara Wild Hearts \u2013 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Sayonara Wild Hearts, we deal with a broken heart by bopping to a pop album at 200 mph. Time to put it on replay? Here’s what we think.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you have one hour of game time to spend, how do you use it? The way you perceive one hour of a video game depends a lot on what kind of game you\u2019re playing, and how long that game is. Sayonara Wild Hearts made my one hour flash by in an instant, and it still embedded that hour into my memory for good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sayonara Wild Hearts is described by Simogo as a pop album video game, and that\u2019s exactly what it is: an hour-long audio odyssey into a young woman\u2019s soul as she deals with heartbreak\u2014by racing at breakneck speeds and defeating her rivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game is drenched in style from top to bottom, and it\u2019s still dripping when you\u2019re done with it. Far from judging the game based on how much is style and how much is substance, I think it\u2019s fair to say that it is a game where style is<\/i> the substance. From the catchy, silken electropop music to the perfect palette of synthwave colours, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a game that you feel<\/i> more than you play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed, the developers have kept that in mind, judging by the arcade gameplay that\u2019s simple to play but challenging to get good at. Even if you feel, you\u2019re only rewinded a few seconds back. It\u2019s barely a penalty, and it helps the game never lose its groove. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you fail too much at a particular spot, the game even offers to let you skip it. The game will only skip that specific, seconds-long challenge, so you\u2019re never in danger of missing too much. Besides, each \u2018song\u2019 on the album is as long as a regular song, so you can always play it again to really master it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bulk of your one hour with Sayonara Wild Hearts will be spent trying to grab collectable hearts from whatever path you\u2019re driving on. They\u2019re only there for the scoring, so if you\u2019re not into showing off your high score, you will instead be focusing only on dodging obstacles and stylishly battling your music rivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trying to describe the individual parts of what happens in Sayonara Wild Hearts really does not do service to the game. The game can only be judged as a cohesive, complete package. The best moments of Sayonara Wild Hearts happen when all the music, the visuals, the laser-focused gameplay, and the stylish presentation, all come together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When those moments struck in my playthrough, my jaw dropped and my body grooved. Like any great album, I couldn\u2019t wait for another spin, knowing just when to anticipate the beat dropping, or the chorus that I just had to sing along to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s hard not to recommend Sayonara Wild Hearts, simply because it works so well as both an album and a video game. Step aside music videos, we\u2019re doing music video games now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developer<\/b>: Simogo
Country of Origin<\/b>: Sweden
Publisher<\/b>: Annapurna Interactive
Release Date<\/b>: 19th September 2019 (PS4, Switch, Apple Arcade); 12th December 2019 (PC)<\/p>\n\n\n

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The PC version of the game was played for this review of <\/b>Sayonara Wild Hearts<\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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