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Audiosurf 2 (2015)

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First things first, the review is right in this description. I've had enough of people losing their cool about me not having a review, when it was in the description the whole time.
Review:
Okay, so, I'm going to wright the most accurate review I possibly can without losing my temper.

They tried to make a good game with new content. It was pretty hard for them after Audiosuft 1. It's like inventing a color to them. I have been waiting for years for this game to come out, and it has not impressed me what so ever. This game is the biggest let down and failure since Star Wars: The Old Republic and Duke Nukem Forever. I'm going to explain the good things that are different about this game and the bad things that are different about this game.

Good Things
- Kinda high res, yeah, it's not too bad.
- Screen effects aren't too bad..... okay, you got me, they are amazing, but read what I put first in the bad things list
- You can now play songs longer than one hour (but who seriously has that kind of patience?)

Okay, now it's time for the bad things
- I couldn't enjoy the two good things because I was too busy grinding my teeth at these things
- No difficulty settings anymore. It's a 1 size fits all idea
- You cannot change your settings, like mouse speed or sound effects, in game. You must exit to the main menu to do that. Setting mouse speeds are a pain in the ♥♥♥ because you start a song, test it, hit escape, change it (going to the options quits your game and returns you to the main menu), and repeat until you're satisfied,
- You have no control of the volume
- Just touching notes is no longer enough.
- You can no longer obtain notes by hitting them in the side.
- Mono was totally ruined. It's the best thing there, but it still sucks. Pitifully.
- The track is long, skiny, distorted and faster because of it. Imagine someone grabbing the track at each end and pulling them apart like warm and gooey cheese. That's what the track looks like. Everything in the track looks, well.. go into word. Put in a picture of a face. Make it about as wide as the distance that the tab key will jump horizontally. Now vertically stretch it to the very bottom of the page. See how distorted it got? That's how everything looks. Now put the normal image to the left or right of it. Imagine a horizontal line that would start at the bottom of the picture and go up to the top of both pictures. The two lines start at the same time and finish at the same time. This line will move much, much faster on the distorted image because it has to make up for the extra area you added, that made it distorted. This is what I mean by the track is long, skinny, distorted, and faster because of it.
- When Audiosurf 1 came with the Orange Box soundtracks, Audiosurf 2 comes with, get this, 15 different versions of Bonfire by Knife Party!!! Isn't that amazing! I mean, how could we possibly ask for more? Sounds amazing, right?! I hope you saw the verbal irony there.
- Main menu is difficult to navigate, hard to understand, and designed for Windows 8/Windows Phone (Better known as the tile phone), especially since everything in a tile theme, including all circles.
- People liked Audiosurf 1 partly because they could relax and think when they played it. When I wrote my book, I just played Audiosurf and my ideas naturally came to me. The gameplay took enough effort that you couldn't hold a conversation with someone, but left enough of your mental resources to daydream and just straight out think, like you do when you're trying to (and can't) fall asleep at night.
- Mouse Sensitivity is not consecuative. Skins all have their own width of the track. They also have their own character size. Your mouse sensitivity isn't how much of your screen you can move your character, it's the amount of area you have to cover on your mousepad to get from one side of the track to the other. Fatter tracks will give you the illusion of faster mouse sensitivity, while skinny tracks give you the illusion of slower sensitivity. This is a HUGE pain in the ♥♥♥.


Oh yeah, and, 72 minutes into the game the high resolution capabilities aren't... new anymore, they got old, and the "amazing" screen effects are getting annoying. God ♥♥♥♥ING forbid that there be a milimeter of my screen with nothing on it.

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