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Thumper's only hang-up is the repeated use of musical measures or track designs.

Yet there you are, speeding down the track to your next death-defying performance. During a moment of solace, you may realize that you don't remember exactly what happened in the preceding moments. It's as if you're facing the front lines of an army that intimidates their enemies with massive drums, and when things are at their most intense, it lays into you with high-pitched, droning sounds that rake at your psyche.Д®nveloped in corridors of light or swimming in a sea of darkness where faint, mechanical devils perform an intimidating dance, Thumper is truly captivating to behold, moving at commanding rate of speed that's difficult to shake. Thumper thumps, bangs, and pummels you with intense percussion.

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As a game that's playable both on a TV and in VR, this really only holds true for the latter, but again, it's a step above most 'immersive' experiences we've seen before. Immersion is a tall claim, but itвЂ™s one that Thumper realizes. That said, when you take the chance and come out unscathed, it's thoroughly rewarding to know that you went above and beyond Thumper's already challenging demands. Fail to input the correct button combinations at the precise moments that actually matter, and you're liable to hit a barrier, lose your sense of the beat and the track, and careen into a wall. There are optional opportunities to improve your score or rating-such as jumping to hit floating rings-but making unnecessary moves is like tempting fate. In the span of a single second, you may have to take three turns, jump over a pit, and slam down from midair on top of an incoming beat marker. If you hesitate to take action even in the slightest, Thumper will make short work of you. Tuning into this is critical during later levels where unavoidable obstacles fly by a mile a minute, and the process is thrilling to see in action as you frantically react, somehow survive, and ultimately inform the depth of the song at hand. Beats and notes telegraph incoming obstacles, planting a seed in your subconscious only fractions of a second before you have to react. Thumper is about survival under the guidance of music-and less about actually creating music. The two exceptions are during the boss battle at the end of each stage and when a ring floats around the track waiting to punish you with an unavoidable attack for missing your mark under its watch. For example, you aren't always required to hit a button when a beat icon-for lack of a better term-appears on a track. The big difference here is that you aren't forced to fill in a song to succeed. You may also find your track expand to multiple lanes while a phalanx of technopedes float into your path, forcing you to shift from side to side without hesitation.

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Spiked sections require you to jump, while a series of barriers can only be passed when you hold down the 'beat' button. Fail to hold the turn long enough or hit the correct button, and you crash. When taking a steep curve, you have to press a button and move the analog stick to grind the wall.

Most of the time, you're forced to act in other ways-at an incredible rate of speed. You aren't challenged to create music in Thumper as much as you are to keep up with the obstacles it dictates what amounts to beats or notes in other games is treated differently here. Granted, that may sound like a creative way to interpret what amounts to a simple rhythm game, but just because it sounds fantastical and flowery doesn't mean it's purely imaginative.

He beckons, you respond, and you pray your muscles can react fast enough beat him senseless at his own game, matching every beat he sends your way. Success is surviving long enough to meet the the boss-a disembodied flaming head with piercing eyes and spiked florets emerging from all sides. Anything short of a total bond between yourself and the track will lead to dimmed reflexes resulting in life-ending collisions. The tracks are dangerously slick and fast, and the only way to survive is to give yourself up to the beat-allow it to command your instincts to lean into sudden turns and hit markers at the right time. In one ear, the menacing sound of taiko drums bang away, while the other is fed oppressive industrial riffs and beats. Imagine for a second that you're a chrome-plated beetle participating in a life-or-death luge race set in a tangled web of undulating cables, iridescent halos, and laser beams. Now Playing: Thumper - Rhythm Violence - Gameplay By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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