Just Shapes & Beats

Just Shapes & Beats is an action rhythm video game developed and published by Canadian indie team Berzerk Studio. It was released on May 31, 2018 for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch, February 24, 2019 for macOS and Linux, May 10, 2019 for PlayStation 4 in the US, and May 30, 2019 for PlayStation 4 in Europe, Russia and Australia. It was also released on June 30, 2020 for mh:crappygames:Stadia.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Fun and addictive gameplay.
 * 2) The controls, despite being simple, are incredibly easy-to-master, fluid and responsive. which makes the controls neither limited nor poor.
 * 3) The story, while lacking dialogue, is surprisingly interesting and engaging. You don't need words to appreciate the characters in the game.
 * 4) Impressive, beautiful, and fluid graphics with a simple yet effective and unique art-style and a very nice and appealing color palette to look at.
 * 5) * Everything flows together seamlessly, with nothing looking particularly out of place.
 * 6) * This style makes damaging obstacles incredibly obvious, so nothing tries to cheap-shot the player with what looks safe but isn't.
 * 7) This game features some cool bosses, especially Annihilate, Barracuda and Close To Me.
 * 8) In Story Mode, when you lose 3 chances, you can continue infinitely from the start. This game does not go with limited lives and implements a superior system in its place.
 * 9) The game's cinematics are absolutely beautiful, amazing, and fun.
 * 10) Cool soundtrack, featuring several different genres of music from several different artists. In addition, levels are synchronized to the songs, so they are part of the gameplay experience, They are so cool and awesome that they look like an electronic/EDM music video and listening to them will make you want to take it to your head, play the Playlist or play the Party Mode to listen to the music you like more, even go to YouTube and download the music on your computer, phone or tablet or if you have the game, along with all the songs in the folder "Monstercat Soundtrack Selection" you can listen to the music as if it were an MP3.
 * 11) After finishing story mode, you can unlock achievements. Some of these achievements unlock bonus songs in other game modes. These achievements can including things from dashing a certain number of times (or clearing a song without dashing) to helping your friends in multiplayer challenges to constantly moving to the beat without taking damage and so much more.
 * 12) On that note, there are other game modes aside from the main story.
 * 13) * Playlist: This mode lets you select levels to beat in any order you want, and you have infinite chances to beat the levels, including checkpoints.
 * 14) * Challenge: In this mode, each challenge is comprised of two levels and a boss. For each level, the player is given three songs and can choose one from the given pool of three. The boss level is entirely decided by the RNG.
 * 15) In these modes, there are ranks on each song to mark how well you play. You get an S rank for beating a song without taking damage, an A rank if you beat a song while taking damage but not dying, a B rank for dying only once, and a C rank otherwise.
 * 16) You can play 2 difficulties in Playlist mode and Challenge mode, if you want to give yourself an extra kick in terms of difficulty. The extra difficulty is implemented in a bevy of different ways depending on the level.
 * 17) Awesome and satisfying ending.
 * 18) You can play online in public or alone and you can also play the challenges infinitely.
 * 19) The game is decently-priced at US$20.
 * 20) There is a level of Mortal Kombat in the playlist, and players view it as one of the hardest levels in the game for an extra kick of difficulty!
 * 21) There was an update in the game, you can play 4 levels of Shovel Knight and one of those is a new boss. The songs from Shovel Knight were specifically remixed for this game.
 * 22) * Just like mh:crappygames:Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash and Resident Evil: Revelations 1 & 2 for Switch, in the Nintendo Switch version, you can put your Amiibo (only the Shovel Knight one) you can get 100 beatpoints and the best is coming, if you put a Normal Shovel Knight Amiibo you can Unlock the Level "Strike The Earth!", If you put a King Knight Amiibo, you can unlock "In the Halls of the Usurper", If you put a Plague Knight Amiibo you can unlock "Flowers of Antimony" and finally if you use the Amiibo From Specter Knight you can unlock "La Danse Macabre", which is really impressive.
 * 23) Great replay value: you can play as many times as you want and you will never be bored for long, the fun and challenging experience and the excellent content that this game has, online mode as well as Normal or Hardcore.
 * 24) You can get infinite Beat Points.
 * 25) An anti-piracy measure video that plays before entering a level that actually reminds us not to pirate games and a developer telling a story about him pirating games to play it.
 * 26) This game frequently gets updates for bug fixes and content. All of it is free content, and none of it is paid DLC.
 * 27) * Many bonus songs were added, including the aforementioned Shovel Knight remixes.
 * 28) * In the version v1.5 they added 5 new songs like "Creatures Ov Deception", "Deadlocked", "Granite", "Lightspeed" and "Katana Blaster".
 * 29) * The option for a Hardcore difficulty was included as part of an update.
 * 30) * Several levels were slightly changed, sometimes making them easier and other times making them harder or removing a cheap area where the player can use cheese to avoid certain obstacles.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The story is short, for how simple it is.
 * 2) Many levels can get very difficult. While some players enjoy this difficulty, it can be excessive for others.
 * 3) * In addition, levels can be inconsistently difficult. One example of this is Termination Shock, which is one of the earlier levels in story mode but also one of the hardest.
 * 4) * Or also, if you play Annihilate on Hardcore difficulty it can be extremely frustrating!
 * 5) Sometimes, the gameplay may induce seizures which makes this game very risky for epileptics. Luckily, the game warns you about this before it starts, and there is an option in the settings to minimize seizure inducing scenes.
 * 6) In all bosses, there is no checkpoint, meaning if you fail you have to start from the beginning. This is offset by boss battles giving you six hits as opposed to three in normal levels.
 * 7) Speaking of story mode, in online mode, sometimes you have to wait a long time. There are also a few bugs associated with online play, but those are rare.
 * 8) On the Nintendo Switch version, When you press pause, the frame rate can go a bit slow, Fortunately, when you release pause, in a second it will return to fluid.
 * 9) Completing the game to 100% is almost pure torture. To do it, you must get absolutely all the songs in Rank S, that is, if you play in Hardcore mode, some songs may be too difficult like Annihilate, Deadlocked, Paper Dolls, New Game and the list goes on, and if I hurt you, that's possible to restart the whole song. Also, after the 1.5 update makes cheese almost useless, for example, In Paper Dolls if you try to make cheese it may damage you. Finally, it is worth it anyway, as the game has a hidden reward for if you have obtained all the songs in Rank S for completing 100%.

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