If we talk about games in the App Store during 2014, it is necessary to talk about Monumet Valley, a highly awarded game with a very simple but at the same time very abstract mechanics: not trust anything, the limits are set by you and the perspective we give to the game, Sure. Today I bring you a game called Duet game that will challenge us both in agility and perception as well as the speed with which our brain thinks what is necessary. We are going to analyze this minimalist game with one of the prettiest soundtracks for games I've seen on the App Store. After the jump.
Duet Game, a game that shines for its minimalism
The design is impeccable. Each level has a gray and black background that moves, and some white bars are going down, They are always the same color: white (unless we fail a lot at the end of the level, I'll tell you later). As I was saying, Duet Game is very minimalist, so it lacks many visual elements. The protagonists are two balls that are in symbiosis (they cannot move from their orbit), one red and one blue. Regarding design, It seems to me that it is a super neat application, and that it is really worth it. Few games have I seen with a careful and minimalist design.
The objective of the game, easy but complex at the same time
Your survival depends on the protection of two ships. They are artifacts in synchrony, a dance and a song between two entities linked and united in symbiosis. Feel a terror that will keep you in suspense, where the world around you becomes silent and indifferent, as if the only thing that matters is the game that lives between your hands. This is Duet.
This is the definition of the objective that we can see in the App Store, Amazing right? The way in which they compare the survival of these «two balls» (which are ships) with different elements makes at least to me, immerse me in the story they tell us. The objective, as you have read, is to make our ships survive (blue and red). What do we have to protect them from? Of some white blocks that go down, if a ship touches a blue block, it is "stamped" and Game Over, we started the level again. It's a bit tricky to show the target Above these lines you have the trailer published by the developer. Besides the history, Duet Game features challenges and an epilogue with more than 40 additional levels.
Soundtrack according to the symbiosis of the ships
An amazing Tim Shiel soundtrack will accompany you along the way.
Duet Game also has an original soundtrack created by Tim shiel with more than 8 pieces, which according to the creator "present an evocative beauty that will trap you in an absorbing experience at every step". I promise you the soundtrack is great, and sometimes it helps us to pass the levels if we listen carefully to the rhythm. So if you decide to download Duet Game, I advise you to use helmets.
An affordable price for our pockets
In addition to all the things that I have told you about Duet Game, I forgot to tell you that throughout the levels they show us "reflections" on fear, truth and other abstract feelings through an English voice (they have not translated it into Spanish, but the text has). By last, Duet Game cost only 0,89 euros in the App Store, It has been worth it for me and that is why the assessment I give to the game is the highest possible. Are you up for it?
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