After someway each teasing it a month in the past and shadow-dropping it Monday alongside Annapurna Interactive’s 2025 showcase, Sayonara Wild Hearts is now out there on PlayStation 5. Granted, you’ve been in a position to play the PlayStation 4 model on PS5 perpetually, however now you’ll be able to play in 4k with 120 fps visuals and haptic suggestions within the DualSense. All of which is to say: That is one of the best model of among the best music video games ever launched.
To recap: Again in 2019, Sayonara Wild Hearts was Simogo’s try at pulling a 180 — the intuition and sensory overload counterpoint to notebook-required puzzle video games like Yr Stroll and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. The pop album masquerading as a recreation is mainly a collection of easy instructions requiring fast reflexes, performed out as over-the-top music movies set to a soundtrack the Apple Music itemizing describes as “half dreamy synth-pop, half chase rating, half atmospheric chill-out”. The corporate’s web site has an excellent look again on the recreation’s growth.
Other than the technical enhancements, the large new function on PS5 is the Remix Arcade mode, which takes a little bit of effort to unlock. Whereas the sport’s PS5 model is out there as a free improve for anybody who owns the PS4 model, your progress doesn’t carry over. So if, like me, you’ve performed the PS4 model many occasions over, you’ll nonetheless must play by means of the sport’s story — after which the Album Arcade mode — to unlock Remix Arcade.
That’ll take you a number of hours, then when you get to Remix Arcade the expertise will get flipped. Like Album Arcade, it’s a play on the thought of placing the sport’s playlist of levels on shuffle, and enjoying them in a random order — however right here as an alternative of enjoying full ranges, you’re enjoying quick segments of these ranges, every hovering at round 10 seconds. The tempo feels just like that of a WarioWare recreation.
The segments don’t begin out particularly difficult — some you will get by means of with out touching your controller — however when you get hit as soon as, it’s recreation over. After you clear 10 of those micro levels, the sport accelerates the following 10, a course of that appears to repeat each 10 levels (although I haven’t gotten far sufficient but to understand how that performs out as you progress additional). The trailer guarantees the mode will get “progressively sooner” and “more and more devilish.”
I’ll need to play extra to see how the mode progresses, nevertheless it’s already an effective way to bounce between key moments within the recreation. And with the remainder of the sport already trying and enjoying higher than ever, it’s simple to name it and say when you by no means performed it the primary time round, there’s no higher time than now.