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Spin Rhythm XD Free Download GAMESPACK.NET You have games like Dance Dance Revolution, which rely on the general rhythm of a song to provide players with a guideline to use when dancing, hitting buttons, or however they’re interacting with the game. Then you have more technical titles like Guitar Hero that try to mimic the sensation of actually playing music. Spin Rhythm XD, out this week on Steam Early Access, is a mixture of both styles of rhythm games in a way that makes much more sense than it should. Spin Rhythm XD is also unique in that it offers a joyous experience using only two buttons. I wasn’t convinced that I could feel like I was “making” music, or even playing along with the 15-song soundtrack of modern electronic jams, just by tapping two buttons. Spin Rhythm XD makes use of a few simple gestures that, when taken together, create a strangely effective simulation of the feelings you get when playing music. The first motion is tapping. As notes scroll down my screen in time to the music, I can tap along to the blue and red bars, as well as green lines that stretch across the play field. Blue and red notes are both activated with one button, while the green notes are assigned to another button.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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That’s it. Unsurprisingly, these notes match the rhythm of the songs, pulsing in time with drum beats, chords, and other musical flourishes. I can also tap and hold the blue and red indicators when the game wants me to stretch out a note. While holding these notes, I slide the analog stick left and right on my controller to mimic pitch bending. In fact, the analog stick is an essential aspect of the game. Since the songs are only represented by two major notes, the blues and reds, I have to spin the activator at the bottom of my screen to match the note placements. While other games might assign the blue and red notes to different buttons on the controller to break up the monotony of hitting a single button in time with the music, Spin Rhythm XD uses the analog stick as a kind of selector that allows me to play the entire game, no matter how chaotic, with those same two buttons. In practice, this means I’m moving my analog stick left and right to the beat of the music while I line up the colored portions of my disc to tap on the blue and red notes that are coming down my screen (and also tapping a separate button when a green bar appears).

TAKE CONTROL.

It’s hard to describe in words, but hopefully it will make sense after watching the trailer. This jostling of the analog stick creates a sense of movement I haven’t experienced in any other rhythm game. Like physically moving my hands up and down the length of a keyboard, Spin Rhythm XD’s use of a spinning disc adds momentum to the gameplay, making the otherwise simple button scheme feel far more involved. It’s rare to be able to feel movement in a rhythm game by playing it with a standard gamepad, but the effect here is far more engaging than it may sound. That’s not all the analog stick does, though. Songs also require me to “spin” the play field by quickly flicking the analog stick left or right, depending on the prompt. Doing so rotates the disc at the bottom of my screen and cleverly snaps it back into place when a note is about to appear on the field. It feels akin to spinning a turntable platter the way a DJ might. However, one of my favorite aspects of this game is how it cleverly adds complexity without forcing me to be a virtuoso at button tapping. Tucked between large blue, green, and red notes that I tap along to are smaller, dotted blue and red notes. I’m not meant to press any buttons to activate them; instead, I “trace” them.Intruder on the Bridge

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As they move down the play field, as long as these indicators fall into the appropriate color on the disc at the bottom of the screen, they will be played along to the music. These sounds represent the more musically and rhythmically dense parts of songs, such as arpeggios and fast hi-hat trills. To actually play these notes with single button presses would be a nightmare, but gliding the disc at the bottom of the screen to catch them still provides that sense of satisfaction without ramping up the difficulty to impossible. While other rhythm games would leave out these more complex patterns on easier difficulty levels, they exist in all difficulties in Spin Rhythm XD. Including these more involved elements in the songs and only asking me to trace their path is an effective way to keep me engaged with the music, even if I’m only actually tapping simple beats otherwise. On the hardest difficulties, the tapping, sliding, gliding and tracing come together to create a musicality I haven’t experienced in other rhythm games. And to get there, I don’t have to go through the feeling of only playing “half” the song, which is what I get when playing most other music titles on easy or even medium difficulties. I’ve been playing rhythm games for over two decades, and it’s always a pleasant surprise to see how game developers come up with new ways to enjoy the act of playing a game along to music.

MASTER.

These games are close to my heart, but can be hard to recommend; the genre requires a good sense of rhythm and usually a large amount of physical dexterity to play, even on lower difficulty levels. Spin Rhythm XD, with its tapping, flicking, and tracing mechanics, lowers that barrier of entry without dumbing down its design. Even though it involves far less of the button tapping that is the hallmark of other rhythm titles, it’s every bit as engaging as its contemporaries. If this is your first time playing a rhythm game, I’m envious. If you’re an old pro at them, get ready for something different but very enjoyable. Rhythm games have typically relied on physical peripherals to engage the player, from dance mats and plastic guitars to the more esoteric maracas and bongo drums. Without these, the experience can feel a little one-note, particularly if gameplay follows simple four-directional inputs. Spin Rhythm XD is a new rhythm game with no landfill-clogging extra plastic accessories in sight – but if its Early Access is anything to go by, it doesn’t need them. Spin Rhythm starts with a Guitar Hero-like framework: a board of notes comes towards you in time to the music.Call of Duty Advanced Warfare

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Some that need tapping, others that need holding and keeping on-track as they snake from side to side. Where it mixes things up is with the deck, a rotating pink and yellow curve that you need to line up with the colour of the notes on the board. This simple addition gives Spin Rhythm a whole other level of fluidity and depth. There are also spins, where you send the deck on a roulette-style rotation in either direction. Cleverly, the deck snaps to the correct orientation of the next note if you tap the button with the right timing – something that never stops being satisfying. Crank the game up to Hard mode, and Spin Rhythm also adds Rock Band drums-like beat lines to nail. Spin Rhythm is on the challenging side of rhythm games, with even Normal mode giving me a run for my money. ‘Easy to pick up, hard to master’ doesn’t quite apply here – the mechanics don’t come naturally at first, even to someone like me who’s played a bunch of rhythm games over the years. I felt a little frustrated to begin with and ragequit, but when I tried again later I was surprised how quickly I’d formed muscle memory, and it started to feel a lot more instinctive. There are 18 songs at the time of writing, with a heavy EDM slant – a plus for me, but perhaps not for everyone.

COMPETE.

The soundtrack is composed of ‘real’ licensed music including some moderately big names like Pegboard Nerds and Tristam, though most are on the more obscure side. More songs are in the pipeline to be added for free, with the devs’ estimates ranging from 30 to 50 overall – not to be sniffed at, when everyone’s fave VR rhythm darling Beat Saber started with only ten and took a while to pad out its free offerings. What’s notable is that the hand-generated track layouts feel not only solid and accurate but also varied, with verses and choruses often mixing up their layouts later on rather than repeating themselves. Some other thoughtful touches include spider graphs detailing the intensity of levels and an actual physical health bar which takes the guesswork away from when you’re going to fail. While I introduced Spin Rhythm as not needing additional peripherals, the option is there if you want it. As well as supporting mouse input and a range of gamepads, it also works with midi DJ controllers – but support isn’t fully fleshed-out at this stage. I found a standard Xbox controller to be significantly more intuitive than mouse control, which is a little cumbersome.

Spin Rhythm XD is up there with the more interesting accessory-less rhythm games of recent years, earning a spot next to the likes of Thumper and the Amplitude reboot. If you’re eager to jump in, it’s very playable now despite only just releasing into Early Access. Spin Rhythm XD has a pretty varied selection of songs already. Even though they’re all some form of Electronic music, they’re all unique from each other and none of them sound like repeats of other songs. As of writing this preview there are 18 songs featured in the game with a planned track list of 30. You can also create your own custom tracks using the licensed music included. There’s a planned feature that will allow you to use your own music but this feature hasn’t been added as of writing this. Spin Rhythm XD’s gameplay is pretty unique compared to many other rhythm games. It puts a new “spin” on the genre, so to speak. To score points you must move the pink and blue wheel at the bottom of the screen to line up with the colors that flow towards it. This is really simple on easy but when you get to expert it proves to be an immense challenge due to how fast it moves as well as the crazy amount of things you have to do. It’s a multi-tasker’s paradise but I had quite a bit of trouble getting used to it.

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This is my first rhythm game in years so I’m pretty rusty. That said, I know a quality game when I see one and Spin Rhythm XD’s gameplay is not only unique but really fun too. One really nice thing about the game is that it supports a fairly wide range of control methods. You can use just a mouse, your mouse and keyboard together, a controller, or even a midi DJ’s turn table. Which is pretty impressive, and I can only imagine how it plays with a turn table, but it’s a pretty fitting method of playing the game, considering. I noticed there are videos of people using one on YouTube though. The game features 4 difficulty levels to play and each one not only increases the difficulty but also increases the length of the song. As an example, the first song in the game is 1 minute 30 seconds on easy but on expert it’s 2 minutes and 9 seconds. Hard and expert are the same length of time. The difficulty level also adds more things to the track that you’ll need to work through. Spin, flick and tap to match colours and beats. Spin Rhythm’s smooth controls work seamlessly across multiple devices including mouse and keyboard, gamepads and even real MIDI DJ turntables.DOOM Eternal

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