God of Rock Assessment (PS5)

Punching is cool, however what if punching was instigated by musical notes as an alternative? Nicely, developer Modus Studios favored that concept, and the result’s God of Rock, a combating sport that pits rival musicians in opposition to each other.

Mechanically, God of Rock is stable. Whereas it is a combating sport, the core of the expertise depends on notice charts a la Rock Band, or, most overtly, the Persona rhythm video games. Quite than conventional punches and kicks, you must hit notes on a chart to the beat of the tune. The longer the tune goes with no winner, the extra complicated the notice charts get. In the event you’re not swift, the charts can get completely psychological. Sadly, the massive soundtrack of 40 songs does blur collectively a bit, and it’s nearly not possible to tell apart one observe from the opposite.

Curiously, conventional particular strikes and breakers are within the sport. Relying on which of the colourful, distinctive characters you decide, your moveset will range vastly. Sadly, given how a lot of your consideration is demanded by the notice chart, it’s exhausting to essentially respect every of the 12 character designs, lots 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 observe of initially, as you turn out to be extra able to multi-tasking you’ll discover that lots 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 anticipate from the very best degree 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 greater difficulties, the net 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 tune if you happen to get too cocky. So long as the sport can nurture and keep a participant base there ought to be ample cause to maintain coming again to God of Rock time and time once more.