Inside My Radio

Genre: Platformer / Music-Rhythm

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: This Game is included in the A Ch’ti Bundle, along with Ethan: Meteor Hunter.)

Inside My Radio is a Platformer where every action you take in the game, aside from simply moving left or right, must be performed to the beat of the music. Jumps, dashes, ground-stomps, wall-jumps, and so on – all of these will fail if you don’t do them when the beat allows.

This sort of limitation really throws a wrench in the typical platformer formula, and playing this game kinda’ feels like having to re-learn how to play a simple platformer, since you really need to be in sync with the rhythm with everything you do.

Thankfully, this game’s soundtrack is excellent, giving you good tunes to rock out to that change based on your actions in the level, giving you a real feeling of not just playing to the music, but also helping to create the music. The game’s presentation also works well with this, and although it’s fairly simple, it is still bursting with color and personality.

The game’s main mechanic is done well here, but some other things could have done with some more work. For one thing, the game forces you through it’s text-based story, which drags down the pacing of the game and really could have done with some streamlining. The other problem here is, when you strip away the music-rhythm part of the gameplay here, what you’re left with is a fairly bland and uninteresting platformer. It’s not bad, but clearly the music-rhythm gimmick is the only thing setting it apart.

Even so, Inside My Radio is still a fun and involving audiovisual experience, and while it’s one big hook is kinda’ its only one, it does that one thing well.

tl;dr – Inside My Radio is a Platformer where every action you take has to fit the game’s beats. This works pretty well, thanks in part to a great soundtrack and colorful presentation, but it’s not especially deep and the story bogs down the experience somewhat.

Grade: B

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