Ten days for Play Welcome to seven days of play your Weekly
mobile game review program. I'm Edwin and I'm Sam for the
past seven days. We play a game and we try to
tell you how long we've lasted throughout those seven days on
playing said game we play a game.
What have you played this week this week or for the last seven
days we have attempted to play sayonara wild hearts.
From Annapurna in an interactive your favorite.
Mmm your favorite game Publishing Company remind me
what's great titles. They release in the past Lauren.
Oh boy, but they also published Dona County.
Hmm. Okay, that's good, which was
delightful. Let me read you Edwin.
The description of sayonara wild Hearts.
Well, you're not wrong. Dinah wildhearts is a dreamy
arcade game about riding motorcycles skateboarding dance
battling shooting lasers wielding swords and breaking
hearts at 200 miles per hour. As a heart of a young woman
breaks the balance of the universe is Disturbed a diamond
butterfly appears in her dreams and leads her through a highway
in the sky where she finds her other self.
The masked biker called The Fool a fool.
Well if he ain't yet if he couldn't hear it Edwin was
rubbing his eyes and Temple Jewish.
Sam is an audio medium. No one can know how I really
feel journey through a custom ridden and custom written pop
sound. Jack Chase scores and set out to
find the harmony of the universe hidden away in the hearts of
little death and her Star-Crossed allies dancing
Devils howling moons stereo lovers and hermit. 6464.
Let's pop that like Kidz, Bop. But so so this is developed by
yet. Another game company in Malmo
Josh in Sweden and what loose weeds I guess they have to do.
Something over those long Winters really can't leave the
house and developing game seems to be there Jam.
Yeah. Speaking of jam.
Oh Edwin tell me your thoughts about that inara wild Hearts.
Well, I did not enjoy this week. I've done to you.
Can you describe the game for me?
Yes, I would describe it as a Perpetual migraine in her in
phone form. And I think it accurately we
created the feeling of standing in the middle of a 90s arcade.
Mmm. Like you're just assaulted on
all fronts their bright colors loud sounds you are moving at
200 miles an hour bling blong sounds yeah, lots of real close
no real clue what's going on lots of tapping.
Yeah, lots of moving your All across the screen, this is
Cristiano Ronaldo kick and run but you're on a bicycle, but I
imagine he was not the original perpetrator of such a game
mechanic in isms. Right?
So earlier games that come to mind are games like Temple Run
right where you're running on this Lane track and you can
swipe between the left track the middle track in the right track.
But inside in our wild Hearts, it's a little bit more fluid
right? It's it doesn't set you off in
like these different tracks, but I I'd also say like that is one
level. Well, you can tell how far I've
got the other levels get crazy. So like the game said like
there's like a beat-matching portion where you have to tap to
the Rhythm there is sort of like a Galaga portion where it's like
a top-down shooter and then there's like a I don't know.
Did you play the original like Star Wars arcade game?
Where everything is sort of like an lines and polygons and then
you sort of have to like go through the tunnel and the Death
Star and you have to dodge like the the wall.
Oh nothing. I played that know.
So there's like a portion like that in the game, which is
crazy. Yeah, so I would say like
there's like a total of probably eight different types of game
play many games and one and one sayonara wild Hearts ache eight
games into the shallow know I just take one there is a lot of
music in this game is like music in this game.
It is inescapable. It cannot Escape there is no
option to turn off music. Oh really?
Well, I would I mean that sort of makes sense.
But yeah, because that is sort of like the whole point of the
game like a lot of it. Music video game right it is
like a lot of the game has beat matched portions.
So if you're familiar with games like Guitar Hero or also Tata
Tata Tata Caillou and one I thought was it was gonna say
which is like this. It's like a really popular
subculture game where you tap portions of the screen, but then
like you have to move your finger at the same time and
accordance with the song so you have to sort of memorize the
song in order to For you to know know what where the tapping
belongs. Yeah.
Yeah their portion of the game that also reminded me of f-zero.
Oh, I like that game. Yeah.
That is a good game. That's not bad.
He's just not to my taste. I think as I age I become a
grumpy Surly old man, and this is very loud and jarring and
shiny and glossy. I mean, it looks fantastic,
right? It was too much for me.
Okay? Like no I can't I'm sorry.
Hahaha do much. So I think really what happened
was there to the to frustrating things happen for me one for the
first level. You're you know, you're okay
man. Okay why we win you'll be able
to choose the right lane collect the coins.
It's so fast, or maybe my reflexes are so slow that I just
bit my time avoiding all the coins because by time I see them
I moved to that lane and causing they've stopped and then now
they're on the other Lane, right?
So I was like, well, this is just annoying.
It is a really high Reaction game like you need to be on your
tiptoes in order for you to really react to everything
that's happening on screen. So it's actually collecting more
coins if I just didn't change lanes so I'm like well, okay,
I'll just listen to this very loud music there.
Is there a hollow Hearts which crop up now and then which don't
tell you but you tap on screen. That's how you collect them.
Otherwise, you just zoom past them.
You can run into them never give a tap the screen to bash you
collect them. Activate or something.
I think something happens if you tap the screen and okay, maybe
yeah, there's no tutorial. You're just turning straight
into it, which as you can see the four pluses and minuses the
second level. However, as I okay, well find
the see if I can push through second level then introduces the
concept of like dodging around parked cars.
It's like a fork in the road at some point because okay cool.
Alright, great. I can I can do this.
Like if even I can't collect all the hearts I can at least, you
know, Dodge the upcoming. Calls and like okay I can I play
this Christian Aldo's kicking run.
I know what's up. But it is so fast.
And again, my reflexes are probably too slow.
But yeah, I just got into a loop where I was just crashing into
the same car over and over again.
And when that happens the musical dude dude, this is my
room. As I said, this is just awful
and get I can't and I quit out right this was my experience of
the game. So now I'm a commercially old
man suddenly come confronted with youth culture so far.
What does that stop it? Okay, I had the exact opposite
reaction right as the game starts you off and then it
starts off with like a monologue of this Sage old lady reading
about star-crossed lovers or something like that.
Right didn't stall off on the right foot for me.
But exactly exactly I was like, yes, I am here for this.
Yeah, and then it immediately goes into like this enveloping
song that goes in tune with like the screen and like this really
good thumping beat. Oh, yeah.
You better like this song because you're going to hear it
a lot if you're ever interacting with the menus, right and this
is when I knew like I immediately liked the game.
I mean the music is pretty much my jam electro-pop, right since
pop in Electro EDM pop, like that's all like stuff that I
like. Yeah.
So immediately I was like, okay, I'm all about this.
Let's start the game and then the game is just like absolutely
turns into like this beautifully like the graphics are absolutely
amazing. Like I think the design Uh is
one thing outside of the design itself.
It's like all the iconography like every level is so well
crafted from like a visual. Look.
It has like a color story like the characters are all they look
amazing and the animations are great.
Yeah. I was just all about this game.
Yeah, and then like the music and the way that it's sort of
like makes the game so much better.
And you know like I did that thing where after I played the
game I went and listen to the soundtrack.
Mmm, and it's one of those things where it's like, oh if
they complement each other so well that without the game and
you're just listening to music. It doesn't really have the same
effect and then having played the game and after having played
some of the levels that have the songs it makes that song so much
better because you recollect the visuals from it.
It's sort of like when you watch a music video And the music
video is so good that you kind of love the song after that and
then you listen to the song again on the radio and you're
just like some kind of sucks. Right?
It's not that the song sucked in this case.
It's just that the visual enhancements add so much
richness to it. Yep.
I hated it. But I think I'm in a minority.
I've heard people will enjoy this game and I would absolutely
recommend people check it out because it's it's a thing that
happens on the phone, right? Yeah.
So I the other Act I really liked about this is that it did
have a variety of different games.
So normally a game like this that runs its course by the end
of it. You're kind of sick of the
mechanic, but here it does seem like they really tried to think
of every different way to make this type of Runner sort of
style. We're like you're going on a
path and like collecting things that they had so many different
variations of it that I kept it interesting and they added
really good touches of like, you know tapping in time with the
music or like Smashing it to raise a meter until you like
punch really hard to making it like a top-down scroller.
It was like lots of really creative ways to reuse this
engine. So how far did you get Sam?
I don't know if you have we markers or progress or Thomas's
so there is a sort of level meter when you start the game
like there is a if you if you press play after the entrancing
music that you hear in the beginning and the intro that
they love to play every time you started your right that they
could have gone. Unaware with not long ago in a
town much like yours. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, and also there isn't like
a skip button which you just have to like tap the screen and
it goes away it is not on that screen, right?
So if you press start game, you will face a meter and then on
the bottom there are dots that tells you how long how much you
have? Oh, I see progress you have
made. Okay.
All right. Well prepared to be embarrassed
Sam. I am on the third dot.
Okay, I thought you'd be on my to SEC.
Okay. Yeah, I thought I did finish the
game. Hey, I think that is what is
that? Let's say 20 right about 20 20
levels. Yeah.
Well, I believe it. Mmm-hmm.
And I got to say it was a absolutely delightful experience
that I loved. But there are definitely things
that I should recall that are good and bad in some kind of
formats that Luke all three by threes.
Yes. Okay three by threes Edwin.
Okay. It is a game that exists.
No, that's not true. I have a son that I think if you
are into 80s Revival pop video fun games, like this really does
capture that spirit. It's beautiful.
Look at the colors are great. The music is very loud and of
its type. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll sort of add on to that.
Please do and that if you if you like beat match games, like if
you are fans of I don't know like stuff like rock band or
Guitar Hero and you want to look for an experience like that on
the mobile phone. Definitely give this a try.
It has those aspects word really good music not just like license
music. It's actually custom music that
they made. Or the game that I really like
and if you're into that kind of music Electro poppy synth stuff
definitely give this a go. And that's all the good ones we
have second. Good point is this is a game
that has different styles of gameplay intermix.
So, you know, if you're if you're bored with like the first
level like you'll definitely find it that The Change-Up
between the levels adds to the overall gameplay experience and
actually has some sort of narrative in there that you know
in some crazy way makes sense. Maybe about like six to eight
different styles of games that are in there.
It does definitely keep you interested.
So it's not an experience where you're going to get bored of it
right away. If you're already bored of it,
unless you're doin unless you're adding would you hate it
instantly, but that is just me being a grump my third my third
good point is that if you like a game with an amazing look and
stunning visuals and I and and according to Edwin like
eye-popping visuals that sort of Makes your eyes bleed.
I mean wondering if you're all about that aesthetic.
Then this is definitely going I like the it's absolutely
gorgeous. Like you can get I'm sure people
are going to get tattoos on my designs in this game.
It's very tattoo Worthy. I think it probably does a good
mix of story and gameplay. There's something girl something
something butterfly something something.
It's about a girl who has a broken heart and she's just
trying to mend it a Droid. Oh Molly goes us a tale as old
as time. He jumps on a bicycle through
the Mean Streets of neon City a skateboard first and then it
turns into a bicycle and that turns into a car and then she
turns into a spaceship and then she needs to fight everyone.
Well, there we go. Classic tale as far as good a
Tolkien wrote that I think. Onto the bad points Edwin if you
aren't of a hmm, how do I say this?
If you aren't young at heart if you're not young at heart if
you're at all if you are an old grump and you know one day I got
hyperactive. Giant migraine explosion in your
face. Um, there's no void is a game.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean on top of that like
if you don't like games that make you require to listen to
music and I think this might have been the biggest biggest
offender for you because you're very picky about your ears and
what your ears listen to yeah, if you don't want to have to
require to listen to music, then this is not the game for you,
but you have to understand what the music is doing and where
it's going in order for you to even complete some of these
levels don't have to be old. On the experience right and go
with it and be ready to jump in and I like yeah if you like and
if you don't like intense games where you have to focus and be
on your tiptoes and be on your toes and sort of expect every
move really quickly. Like this isn't the game for you
like you need to have pretty fast reflexes in order for you
to enjoy the game. Although you just end up
avoiding. Hops like I did.
Infuriating. Yeah, I can I can tell like if
you yeah that but on the good side of that is that they have
really good checkpoints to like wear if you crash it doesn't
start all the way from the beginning mustard, right?
It sets you off in a pretty good point where you do feel like
okay, I could have done that better and also it kind of beat
matches like the mistakes are kind of beat match.
So it doesn't, you know, ruin the overall experience of you're
listening. Yeah.
I think one thing I got a missed was any kind of feeling of
Consequence like I don't think there was like a life count
meter or health o healthometer definitely to real words so you
could just keep on crashing over and over again, which is what I
did right was like well, why am I doing this?
Is it a certain style of game but like I didn't feel pressure
to do a gate level well or Not Crash because I didn't seem to
have any effect on there. And I think that's actually a
pretty good point as well is that the consequences aren't too
bad. But for me, it was bad enough
for me to try and get it, right. To keep coming back and try and
get it right but also they did something really clever.
Like if you crash like more than three or four times, you know,
the narrator stops you and be like is this too hard for you?
You will never go about polygons tone it down.
Do you want to tone it down and you're like, yes tone it down to
make it easier for me. No, not this time and never ask
me again. I almost touched.
Yeah. I thought that was a really
clever. It's like I can see how people
got can get frustrated by not being able to clear a portion.
And yeah, I just want to be able to This game in easier for me
then. What is your final seven day
waiting for side another wild Hearts seven out of seven days.
Wow this yeah as absolutely delightful.
I was able to play a couple of levels each time and on the
seventh day. I blasted through all of it.
It was yeah. It was just amazing.
I'm actually going to play through it again.
Try and get on hard mode better rankings because some of these
levels are pretty impossible the first time around the you kind
of need to memorize the locations and sorry I didn't get
to mention like my last basket. Bad point is that sometimes the
controls of the different games with in iOS is really it's not
that great. Like it feels like even though I
set the sensitivity to high the mole the the way that I was
moving my thumb I felt like either the character was like
really sluggish and didn't really respond.
Well, so what I was doing or like I just felt like I wasn't
getting a direct control of the character and was not getting
all the hearts that I could have gotten so you did change because
I think he's somewhere in a menu.
Can change sensitivity inside the changes too high?
I did Roti, but even then like I felt it wasn't good enough.
Yeah, maybe that's what's running in to have like I was
just feeling like I was at all this avoiding Hearts is very
frustrating, right and there is a kit felt like some of those
levels that felt like there was a delay.
Mmm, and then I feel like yeah, I was getting it right.
Well, I think in a seven days to play first we have a 7 1 split.
This is the one day a game. This was terrible.
I hated every second of it. But I am a grump and I totally
recognize this. I don't think I'm representative
and you should totally check out this game.
Well, I think good thing. It's an apple our cake, but you
don't really have to pay for it. Oh you've already paid for is
already. Correct?
You're paying for other games that you might like.
Yes. That's it.
That should be the tag line. Hopefully, you've bought all the
games that you also like where we should bounce out.
Okay, so that was sayonara wild Hearts.
I'm sorry that it didn't fit your needs, but I'm glad I tried
it. Edwin do you have something
else? That might make my sign our wild
Hearts flutter ha ha. Oh boy.
Do I I'm usually very weary whenever you're that
enthusiastic. Well, let's see some you have
seven days to play klepto corns. Oh klepto corns magical freaking
unicorns. This is not an apple arcade
game. This is not snow.
We are busting out of the arcade from the greater of klepto cats
and klepto dogs comes hyper beard corneas.
And yet klepto corns magical freaking unicorns.
Okay. I can tell that my daughter
would probably love this game you go fun for all of the family
meet the klepto corns discover new worlds collect.
Awesome items play carnival games.
Damn, you have seven days to play klepto corns, what made you
select this, you know, I was feeling really crappy and I want
to find something to they would annoy you.
Okay? So you went from thinking that
sign our wild Hearts was an assault on your visual senses
and you chose this game which technically have brighter Brew
more colors than sayonara wild Hearts, but it seems a little
bit more chill but tune in seven days time to find out if that's
true or not. All right.
I'm gonna check Got this klepto corns and see what it's all
about. Like Andy Cohen's but you've
sold on them before we go Sam. Do you have a thing of the week?
I don't know if you've heard but there's knee has come out with a
new service Disney Blues called Disney Palouse the French
service, and then they have a show a very french-sounding show
called The Mandalorian. Hmm, right and have you have you
been seeing this show? Well, only one episode is out.
Okay. A of the day of our recording.
I think the second episode actually drops today, but I did
watch the first episode. I was it Samm.
Excellent. Oh, it's doing okay it gave me
good Firefly vibes. You have been looking for since
approximately 1999, right? Hey.
Well, maybe like 2005 as Firefly.
Yeah rip. All right P wash.
Hmm. Oh spoiler, but that was 15
years ago. So come on really I think
statute of limitations has totally fine on that one.
But yeah, like it gave me, you know, it was one of those like
things where you notice things about other Star Wars that
you're like, hey, this is completely different like one of
the things that I noticed about this when I started watching
Mandalorian, it's like it's so quiet.
That's sort of like that's you know, introspective and and I
was like, yeah Star Wars movies are usually like really loud.
Right either like the Tie Fighter is screaming as it flies
by yeah. Wow.
And yeah, it's just it was just really cool.
It gave me like a good Western Vibe, which I think you know,
obviously it's a thing that it's going for and the mythology
behind it in the Star Wars lore is pretty cool and found that it
was written by Jon Favreau of pot save America.
Oh, yes. Yeah the Iron Man and the chef
Yeah, I was very surprised and delighted it's cool stuff.
How has your experience been with the Disney Plus app so far
amazing. Yeah.
Well, absolutely. No, I mean only the first day
like after I registered I tried logging back in and it was like
delayed slightly, but I'm actually very very impressed
with the app has everything that I'm looking for.
Like you can download movies on it.
Nice like, you know, everything that you'd expect from a player
like Closed-captioning. It has like the the forward and
Rewind 10 seconds and all that stuff very well.
Thought I was very impressed. Nice.
Have you explored the Apple TV? Plus Apple TV Poof's?
No. I haven't mainly because I don't
have the that's the other misconception.
I know that Apple TV plus you don't need an Apple TV in order
to watch it, right? You can technically watch it on
your iPhone and your iPad let's do but but for some reason I
felt like that was a Barrier, and so I haven't decided to
check it also their shows look really dumb.
I mean, I got a bit like that see show where the people are
blind but they're all gorgeous visually challenged and they're
all like, you know, look really cool with amazing beards.
Yeah, that's - trim the morning that have been trimmed
perfectly. Everyone has a really cool
hairstyles. No, ha ha ha.
I did buy an Apple TV recently because I just got annoyed with
my Amazon Fire stick and I think any purchase of that or like
iPhone you get a Year's free Apple TV. + hmm.
So yeah, we'll see but I mean that Ronald D Moore show the
space show. All right trusting For All
Mankind. Yeah.
Mmm. Yeah.
Mmm. Yeah that sums up our Apple TV
plus review. I think yeah, I think It needs a
few seasons of the show to like bake.
Yeah, I mean launching TV network is super hard launching
TVs and network with like astonishing Blockbuster shows
even harder. So and Disney plus I mean Disney
has been doing it for years now. I mean they had their own
channel on TV for noodles wouldn't rules of years such as
students of years. Yes.
My thing in the week is a podcast.
I'm not sure I mentioned before but I'm isn't it for quite a
while is called? No such thing as a fish.
Oh, it's a British podcast based around the research that happens
for the British TV show Qi which is the one of the many many many
many British panel TV shows which is not a thing in the u.s.
Like panel comedy shows it is not right here, but they are
freaking everywhere in England. Yeah, like they gather a bunch
of comedians that are really good on TV that are good on like
thinking for comedians. Yeah, right and then they Talk
about a topic and then have everyone sort of react to each
other. Right?
It's like kind of a queue for like improv or like Sassy one
line isn't stuff. Right but they're all just that.
Yeah, that sound. Yeah, they can even like watch a
show together and you see like their reactions, right?
This would even work as a podcast really, but if I don't
realize that that was like the research behind that shit.
Yeah. So the team that does research
for the QI show which is a panel show with a prompts are like
surprising facts about things you have to guess.
Is it true or is it false or what was the answer to Ooh this
they then spun off into a podcast.
No, such thing as a fish. They had their first live show
in New York. Oh, they've done a bunch of live
shows like in Europe and stuff. But they first time in New York
went to see last week Drive the boyfriend who's never heard of
them before I feel so bad for him.
I dragged him to thank my brother my brother and me that
he had no idea who they were until lin-manuel Miranda pops
out. And you say oh my God.
This is a real show. Yeah, it wasn't real until he
pops. Yeah.
And then yeah trying to no such thing as the fish buddy.
Will you enjoyed it? That's awesome.
That's the slowly trying to coax him into listening to my
podcast. Yeah go together for my
daughter's porno at Radio City on in April.
So that's a great chair to go do that.
Yeah. I heard they got a new show.
My my understanding is that they now have a new show.
So all their live shows generally been the same.
Oh, yes, right. Yes, this is well.
Yes, this world tour happen. Next year is a new chapter right
from the same mind. Of Rocky Flintstone, this is
Belinda's 30th birthday party. Yep.
Oh man, you'll see that's amazing.
Okay. Well that is our show Sam.
You lucky lucky boy. You have seven days to play
klepto corns klepto corn. It sounds like some disease.
It doesn't help it doesn't it? Yeah, like of the foot.
I was hoping from klepto corns people if you bad say exactly.
Yeah this ointment she'll go you have your cup there corns. your
auntie Serena - yeah, I use for seven days a week give you the
bombing or diarrhea because stop use immediately if we see a
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