God of Rock Evaluation (PS5)

Punching is cool, however what if punching was instigated by musical notes as an alternative? Effectively, developer Modus Studios preferred that concept, and the result’s God of Rock, a combating sport that pits rival musicians towards each other.

Mechanically, God of Rock is stable. Whereas it is a combating sport, the core of the expertise depends on word charts a la Rock Band, or, most overtly, the Persona rhythm video games. Moderately than conventional punches and kicks, it’s important to hit notes on a chart to the beat of the music. The longer the music goes with out a winner, the extra advanced the word charts get. If you happen to’re not swift, the charts can get completely psychological. Sadly, the massive soundtrack of 40 songs does blur collectively a bit, and it’s virtually inconceivable to differentiate one monitor from the opposite.

Curiously, conventional particular strikes and breakers are within the sport. Relying on which of the colourful, distinctive characters you choose, your moveset will differ enormously. Sadly, given how a lot of your consideration is demanded by the word chart, it’s laborious to essentially respect every of the 12 character designs, a lot of that are influenced by well-known musicians like Bowie or Elvis.

That is thanks partially to the particular strikes that we talked about. Whereas laborious to maintain monitor of initially, as you develop into extra able to multi-tasking you’ll discover that lots of the strikes supply wild mechanical variance. Some specials heal, some require charge-ups, others drop further notes onto your opponent’s chart that may’t be eliminated, and so forth. They add a extremely fascinating ingredient of technique to the expertise that calls upon what you’d anticipate from the best stage of play within the likes of Avenue Fighter or Mortal Kombat.

Whereas the AI will quickly discover you an excessive amount of to deal with, even at greater difficulties, the net element is the place the specials actually shine. The technique of selecting when to fit your assaults in turns into paramount. It’s simple to lose the rhythm of the music in case you get too cocky. So long as the sport can nurture and keep a participant base there ought to be ample cause to maintain coming again to God of Rock time and time once more.