Super Hexagon

So I'm a nearly-60 y.o. gamer who prefers slow, methodical gameplay. Look before you leap, then take another look. Go away and think about it for a while; maybe even sleep on it. Come back, have another look, and then *sidle slowly forward*. That's how I roll. Everything I saw and read about this game indicated it would be a complete nightmare. But it was on sale for 79p so I bought it. And over 5 hours of gameplay later (2 hrs more than the average player, according to GOG), I'm still playing it. So far I've got 65 secs on Hard, 32 secs in Harder and, er, 6 secs in Hardest. I had to turn off the sound as while the music was OK, the fembot voice was distracting/annoying (if there's an option to turn off the voice and keep the music, I couldn't find it). Found some bpm-appropriate trance music on YouTube and my average playtime shot up about 10-15 secs per round. Thing is, the gameplay is so abstract I can't get worked up about it when I mess up (the fact that you can restart almost immediately helps too). I honestly don't notice the timer going while I'm playing. Speaking as someone who's rage-smashed controllers playing Dark Souls, I don't understand why this game doesn't reduce me to incoherent apoplectic fury but it doesn't. Honestly don't care if I get much better at it. I just enjoy playing it. So now I relax by listening to trance and going into a mini-trance manoeuvring a tiny ittle shape round oncoming inward-moving other shapes (and I need to relax as I've just started playing Pathologic). One of the best 79ps I've ever spent.

Simple, yet addicting gameplay. Minimalistic, but pleasant to the eye. Outstanding soundtrack. Challenging, but fair in every aspect. It also makes for a wonderful gift if you happen to hate someone who suffers from photosensitive epilepsy. Fantastic game, absolutely worth the money.

This game is nooot fun for me. I can't even make it to 8 and a half seconds. I got it because I was like, "Hey, I don't particularly like hard games but I gotta prove I'm not afraid to try." Well, at least it was only a dollar. Maybe I just suck and you'll be amazing at it and love it...but I wanted to offer a different opinion so that people can take it with a grain of salt.

First of all, I can’t stress enough that this game is no joke. It’s one of the hardest games I’ve ever played. Which is weird because it’s very simple. You literally only need to use 4 keys on your keyboard to play the whole game. And two of those keys are for menu navigation and to start the game. The game basically needs the left and right arrow keys for the gameplay. But it is very difficult. I like trying to beat my times from before. So I keep playing it over and over. This is also a game that you can play for just a few minutes and get something out of those few minutes. I usually play this game as a warm up to playing other games. I think it will always have a spot on my hard drive to play for a couple minutes or to just play for an extended session and try just one more time. It is a cheap game but I’ve now sunk almost 50 hours into it and I don’t thing I’m going to stop anytime soon. Even if I beat it. Give it a try it’s worth at least giving it a couple hours especially if it’s on sale.

There is nothing complicated about this game, you just have to survive for as long as you can; survive for sixty seconds, you can go to the next level, there are six levels. Six times sixty, that 360 seconds, so you would think you can beat the game in six minutes. You could beat the game in six minutes, but it would take you a lot of practice. I started playing this game on my android phone on the first day of my senior year at high school, and I finished it on the very last day. Seeing that ending, it was one of the most pleasant gaming experiences I've ever had, I don't regret a second of playing Super Hexagon. On the other hand, the game is an acquired taste; my classmates were absolutely horrified by the game, having only survived for less that ten seconds, calling the game impossibly difficult and not worth playing one bit. If you are even slightly interested in this game, I recommend you buy it, it will bring you countless of hours of fun, and after you complete it, you might (like myself) come back to it once in a while, finding out that you're still quite good at it.