This game needs a DEMO.

[blewberry]

It's really difficult to determine what the game play experience is like from reviews and trailers.

I don't use the Steam Refund system as a platform to demo games.

[YinYin]

Video reviews and twitch streams do rather well if you know what a rhythm game is like.

Besides that I posted all interactions in the "what's the gameplay like" thread.

[blewberry]

I am unfamilar with rhythm games, so I still don't know what the experience is like. Just as I am unfamiliar with VR, so it makes that difficult to understand what that experience is like.

This game needs a demo.

[YinYin]

You can easily familiarise yourself with that genre: https://www.google.de/search?q=free+rhythm+game

Most of the time such games throw you a cue or play the rhythm sequence out and you have to mimic/repeat it.

VR is not required (or released for PC yet) and if you have the hardware you should be able to familiarise yourself with that too ...?

I really don't think the game needs a demo ... the experience is pretty much what gets thrown at you if you watch someone play one of the 9 levels (1 being simple 9 very fast and intense) - except you will have to hit the inputs to the beat yourself obviously.

You can go watch a commented playthough of someone figuring out the mechanics like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLfHJkm-qvI

Or an uncommented one of the later levels like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5hpVxOFmN0

If you are still on the fence then I'd suggest you to just keep an eye on it for later.

[blewberry]

I am not sure why people are telling me that a demo is unnecessary and that I don't need one. lol

Would it somehow hurt the game's sales?

I think you two are suggesting that you don't need a demo, so I shouldn't need one either. That's cool. But I do need a demo. And others may benefit from a demo as well.

But thank you for taking the time to reply. :)

[YinYin]

Originally posted by .blewberry_pug:

I am not sure why people are telling me that a demo is unnecessary and that I don't need one. lol

Would it somehow hurt the game's sales?

I think you two are suggesting that you don't need a demo, so I shouldn't need one either. That's cool. But I do need a demo. And others may benefit from a demo as well.

But thank you for taking the time to reply. :)

I'm trying to help you decide without demo because right now there is none and there may never be one. I'm not suggesting you don't need one (but the game certainly does not need one, because it is *very* well covered).

And on the topic of demos here's a cool blog post: http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/142298729538/on-playable-demos-and-tricking-players-into

[iD]

Well, at least better trailer would be nice. Also, this game is very similar to bit.trip runner.

[blewberry]

Originally posted by YinYin:

Originally posted by .blewberry_pug:

I am not sure why people are telling me that a demo is unnecessary and that I don't need one. lol

Would it somehow hurt the game's sales?

I think you two are suggesting that you don't need a demo, so I shouldn't need one either. That's cool. But I do need a demo. And others may benefit from a demo as well.

But thank you for taking the time to reply. :)

I'm trying to help you decide without demo because right now there is none and there may never be one. I'm not suggesting you don't need one (but the game certainly does not need one, because it is *very* well covered).

And on the topic of demos here's a cool blog post: http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/142298729538/on-playable-demos-and-tricking-players-into

I appreciate that, thank you. Anyway, I will check out that blog post. Cheers.

[Forgot7en]

While I already bought the game and am having a lot of fun, I agree. This is the type of game that would benefit from a demo.

[fickó]

I agree on that this game could use a demo, because videos say nothing about how the game will run on my machine. I've got an old computer that does meet the minimum requirements apart from the CPU. But the requirements don't state what about the Intel Core i3 it needs - and it's been a recurring theme in the last couple of years that store pages just put the i3 on there despite functioning on older AMD CPU's too, only they haven't tested with such machines. Then there are the occasional cases of games actually requiring the SSE4.2 instruction set, many bigger titles explicitly state "requires an SSE 4.2 capable CPU" on the system requirements, but smaller titles often just go for the vague i3 listing.

[YinYin]

Originally posted by fisk0:

videos say nothing about how the game will run on my machine.

For that reason everything could use a demo indeed.

However for that reason the refund system is a perfectly valid option. If the product doesn't work on your hardware you have more than enough reason to refund it.

Besides I'm sure drool would be happy about a hardware report (they could lower requirements if someone has tested and confirmed it running all the way through).

[Dopedfish]

this post is old as hell, but it did have a demo that introduced me to the game.
....it was also only availible on playstation 4 via having one of the vr demo disks...

[JLMusic]

Yep, the game has a demo under a VR demo disc. It's only Level 1. Level 1 is actually internally called the demo too!