Melody's Escape is another entry into the "Play Your Music" genre, this time as a visually attractive side-scrolling runner where both the track and obstacles are planned based on your song's tempo, rhythm and notes. Melody walks, jogs, runs or flies depending on the relative tempo of the music and you'll tap buttons to the music in order to control her jumps and slides as she collects colored orbs.

The music analyzer and track generator are pretty sharp and Melody will make soaring leaps on upward notes, slide down hills to downward beats and make dramatic slow-motion flips during pauses. As it builds the track, it tells you what it detected musically ranging from a steady 4/4 beat to "Energy Peaks" when it has trouble detecting the song structure (still fun if not as spot-on). Even on "Relaxing" mode, the game keeps you busy with constant movement -- made easier by only needing a single color per movement speed. On higher levels, you'll be expected to work all four colors on your controller constantly and then mix your direction pad into it.

Melody's Escape is a fun way to spend some time, made better by the surprisingly accurate music analyzer. Since you're likely playing songs of ~3-5min length, it's an entertaining way to spend some time without getting too involved. A few minor criticisms may be that it lacks any sort of leaderboard and some people may have musical tastes incompatible with the analyzer depending on how non-traditional your music structure is, leading to less impressive tracks. Still, this has been the best game for "playing my music" I've encountered yet.

Melody's Escape is another entry into the "Play Your Music" genre, this time as a visually attractive side-scrolling runner where both the track and obstacles are planned based on your song's tempo, rhythm and notes. Melody walks, jogs, runs or flies depending on the relative tempo of the music and you'll tap buttons to the music in order to control her jumps and slides as she collects colored orbs. The music analyzer and track generator are pretty sharp and Melody will make soaring leaps on upward notes, slide down hills to downward beats and make dramatic slow-motion flips during pauses. As it builds the track, it tells you what it detected musically ranging from a steady 4/4 beat to "Energy Peaks" when it has trouble detecting the song structure (still fun if not as spot-on). Even on "Relaxing" mode, the game keeps you busy with constant movement -- made easier by only needing a single color per movement speed. On higher levels, you'll be expected to work all four colors on your controller constantly and then mix your direction pad into it. Melody's Escape is a fun way to spend some time, made better by the surprisingly accurate music analyzer. Since you're likely playing songs of ~3-5min length, it's an entertaining way to spend some time without getting too involved. A few minor criticisms may be that it lacks any sort of leaderboard and some people may have musical tastes incompatible with the analyzer depending on how non-traditional your music structure is, leading to less impressive tracks. Still, this has been the best game for "playing my music" I've encountered yet.