New rhythm game offered by Calvares to whom we already owe the games Lofi Ping Pong and Rhythm Sports, Kovox Pitch allows you to hit balls with baseball bats, all in rhythm to music from the countries of East. But is the fun there?
Life is baseball
We will not dwell long on the history of the game which does not serve to justify a young man’s passion for baseball. As the narrator decides to return home, his mother asks him to please spend time with his younger brother. Having no friends, he nevertheless remains a baseball enthusiast, and has even tampered with a scooter to serve as a ball thrower. By staying together, we will discover a little more about the history of this family, with a moral to discover at the very end.
The two brothers will spend time together in around eight settings to hit balls, literally. More precisely, we will never see the narrator in action, we control the youngest brother who will have the objective of returning all the balls that come his way to the rhythm of various music. Fortunately, the gameplay will vary as you progress.
It’s all in the wrist
First of all, and for better playing comfort, we advise you to go to the game settings to pair the right and left side keys in order to be able to effortlessly alternate fast balls in your next sessions. It may not seem like much, but the gain in comfort is really significant. Rhythm game requires, the action takes place in a 2D scene with your character on the left, and the automatic launcher on the right. In front of your character a symbol which tells you when to hit the ball that comes in front of you. A hit is a win, a miss means a portion of your life bar disappears. Once the bar is empty, it’s game over, fortunately by hitting balls correctly you gain health.
At the start of your game, you will only deal with classic balls. The simple one which requires a single press, the long one which requires you to hold a key, and the lightning which requires you to press the keys frantically. If you focus first on the story mode (which we strongly recommend), new mechanics will come as the chapters progress. You’ll be able to play forward and backward via a press of a trigger, hitting curve balls, bouncy balls, and red and blue balls referring to two precise touches. The whole thing acts as a big tutorial, responds extremely smoothly and helps prepare us for Free Play mode.
Free-Play mode allows us to play no less than 37 different songs, and offers a wide choice of customizations between the level of difficulty, and the type of balls to appear during your session. Even if a score summary is indicated at the end of each course, we do not have a ranking system, nor the possibility of seeing the recorded scores, which is a shame but understandable given the high degree of customization of the games.
And this is the technical incident
Offered at the price of €5.94 with 37 tracks to play, suffice to say that the quality/price ratio is very good if you are a fan of rhythm games. Now the game remains subject to some bugs. Strangely, there is no transition between the end of the music and the final score, as soon as the last ball of the music is touched, the screen immediately stops. We would have liked a slightly “softer” transition. Our character can also see his animation freeze between two pieces of music, which will require you to return to the main menu to unlock him (probably too violent a rotation during the last shot). Finally comes the music catalog itself. Offering pop-rock from Eastern countries, it must be admitted that the melancholic side of most of the catalog is not necessarily appreciated by the French-speaking consumer that I am, but it is a matter of personal taste for the moment . Nonetheless, 37 songs for a game costing less than €7 remains a very good point.
2023-09-17 12:55:02
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