Please trust me when I say I have a keen ear for rhythm, and that it's the tinest, most infintessimaly small bit off.
As the eponymous Mevo automatically dances his way across the area, you encounter these arrows, theoretically in time with the music, and hit the corresponding button at the right moment. Right shift equates to a blue arrow, pointing to - you guessed it - the right. Left shift equates to a yellow arrow, pointing to the left. I'd have liked to see a fleshier story play out in between each stage - as it is, it's usually just something along the lines of "hey, look! Let's see what's over there!" - but what's here is delicious and lovely. Mevo & the Grooveriders is filled with this sort of insane charm, one which flows from the Sackboy-esque characters, through to the heavily thematic and beautifully drawn environments, reminiscent of World of Goo's seasonal shifting. This could be the finest setup to any game, ever. It's a side-scrolling music title, like Guitar Hero viewed from 'round the side, in which you help a cute little alien reunite his funk band in order to save the world from the evils of silence.
If it goes even half as far as Media Molecule's ingenuity, it could prove to be very interesting.įor now, though, all that's here is the straight-forward, single-player game. It's promised - some time in April, we're told - but there's very little information on what will be involved. The Guitar Hero bit doesn't quite work, and the key aspect of Little Big Planet - its online community hub functionality - isn't up and running yet for Mevo. When talking about Mevo & the Grooveriders, it's best to think in terms of Guitar Hero meets Little Big Planet. With a bit more polish, and with the addition of a solid community hub, this promising debut from Red Rocket Games could deliver something very jazzy indeed." But the lack of precision is problematic, and does hold Mevo back from the highest accolades. " Mevo & The Grooveriders is a gloriously silly, ridiculously charming little game, as accessible as it is beautiful, and for the ludicrously small admission fee of £5.99 (Steam still refuses to show international prices), it's hard to imagine anyone being disappointed.
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