Beat Stomper - Music and light
Beat Stomper - Music and light
free
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Do you like one game with Music, Neon light and Geometry ?The perfect combination of pure joy with Jump, Hold and Stomp. Beat Stomper - Music and lightis ostensibly an endless one-touch platformer. But its got a little more going for it than that, and its mix of ideas is, at least, pretty intriguing.Rather than the usual one touch controls, here you get two. You tap once to fly into the air, and then tap again to smash down. Hopefully youve positioned yourself so that you hit a platform when you land.
Theres a rhythm action component here as well. Timing your jumps to the beat of the booming track going on behind the action gives you a much better chance than tapping randomly.
But while theres more going on here than usual, theres still the sense that the game is a little one-note. Beat Stomper is fun while it lasts, but youll wander off to something a little meatier pretty quickly.
Youre just tapping the screen then?
Pretty much, yeah. Although I guess that really describes any mobile game if you think about it. Anyway in this one youre controlling a pudgy neon block whos trying to ascend a series of platforms.
Tap once and youll jump into the air. But that isnt enough. You need to tap again to shoot downwards into the welcoming flatness of one of the platforms.
In practice its a lot more complex than that. The platforms move as you bounce around, and its easy to fire yourself off into a wall and end up spinning out of control to an untimely death.
The deeper you get into the game, the more songs you unlock to stomp to. There is a connection between the music and the action, but sometimes it can act more as a hindrance than a help.
When youre in the zone its great, but miss a few beats and youll find it pretty difficult to get that rhythm back.
The game has a bright, vaguely chaotic style, and its pretty easy to get to grips with the basics of play in a couple of games. Theres a quick restart time too, and since its paid there arent any annoying ads popping up between rounds.
But is it worth forking out for?
I guess so, yeah. Its pretty simple, all told, and theres a part of me that thinks itd benefit from ad supported rather than premium. Its hard to find anything new here that really warrants throwing any cash down for it.
If youre into quick-fire arcade platformers then sure, give it a go, but there are more interesting implementations of the genre on mobile.
While Beat Stomper does fizz and bubble from time to time, it doesnt quite have the staying power to really make that price point feasible for any but the most ardent of platforming fans.
Theres a rhythm action component here as well. Timing your jumps to the beat of the booming track going on behind the action gives you a much better chance than tapping randomly.
But while theres more going on here than usual, theres still the sense that the game is a little one-note. Beat Stomper is fun while it lasts, but youll wander off to something a little meatier pretty quickly.
Youre just tapping the screen then?
Pretty much, yeah. Although I guess that really describes any mobile game if you think about it. Anyway in this one youre controlling a pudgy neon block whos trying to ascend a series of platforms.
Tap once and youll jump into the air. But that isnt enough. You need to tap again to shoot downwards into the welcoming flatness of one of the platforms.
In practice its a lot more complex than that. The platforms move as you bounce around, and its easy to fire yourself off into a wall and end up spinning out of control to an untimely death.
The deeper you get into the game, the more songs you unlock to stomp to. There is a connection between the music and the action, but sometimes it can act more as a hindrance than a help.
When youre in the zone its great, but miss a few beats and youll find it pretty difficult to get that rhythm back.
The game has a bright, vaguely chaotic style, and its pretty easy to get to grips with the basics of play in a couple of games. Theres a quick restart time too, and since its paid there arent any annoying ads popping up between rounds.
But is it worth forking out for?
I guess so, yeah. Its pretty simple, all told, and theres a part of me that thinks itd benefit from ad supported rather than premium. Its hard to find anything new here that really warrants throwing any cash down for it.
If youre into quick-fire arcade platformers then sure, give it a go, but there are more interesting implementations of the genre on mobile.
While Beat Stomper does fizz and bubble from time to time, it doesnt quite have the staying power to really make that price point feasible for any but the most ardent of platforming fans.