Sound Shapes

Sound Shapes is a 2012 video game designed by Jessica Mak and Shaw-Han Liem and developed by Queasy Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. The game is a side-scrolling platform game with a musical focus.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) While it may look like a normal side-scrolling platform game but the game has a huge focus on music, where things you touch can make different tones or unleash different music.
 * 2) Amazing Soundtrack with some of the tracks such as "Touch the People" are still exclusive to the game even today.
 * 3) * You can also remix the soundtrack in ways based on how you play the game.
 * 4) You get to play as a ball where you can climb any wall as long as it's not dark and touch anything as long as it's not red; collectibles add extra content to the level creation as well as add extra tones to the music in the level.
 * 5) You can create your own levels and add your own music with the DLC adding more content for making levels, you can even share them online for others to play or play other people's levels (no longer available).
 * 6) Once you finish the campaign you unlock Beat School and Death Mode:
 * 7) Beat School is where you try to guess the right notes' location by using your ears, and it has lots of DLC for it.
 * 8) Death Mode where you try to get as many collectibles as you can in a certain amount of time without dying.
 * 9) The Vita Version works surprisingly well and has touch features like moving notes with your fingers in Beat School.
 * 10) The game has Cross-Buy where you buy a version of the game and get it on other consoles as well for free.
 * 11) The game has Cross-Save where your save file is shared between the PS3, PS4 and PSVITA versions (no longer available).
 * 12) The game is well known for having one of the easiest platinum trophies in gaming, as the maximum it could take to earn it is few hours.
 * 13) * Since the game has Cross-Buy, you get 3 versions of the game and can earn 3 platinum trophies this way if you have a PS3,PS4 and PSVITA.
 * 14) ** With Cross-Save feature you can even earn these platinum trophies in seconds if you finished the game once. (no longer available).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) On 15 October 2018, The server for Sound Shapes was shut down, meaning that people who played past that point were no longer able to access any online-related info. This included Community-made levels and uploading levels to the Community as well as cross save. This accounted for every console the game was released on PS4, PS3, and PS Vita.
 * 2) You can still create levels if you want, however you can't share them with anyone
 * 3) You can still earn platinum trophies from the game and its versions, but without Cross-Save, you'll have to do it over again in each version.
 * 4) Even with all the DLCs (11 DLCs) the game is still short, could take about 4 hours to fully complete (much less if you know what to do) and with the online servers being shut down it's shorter and killing much of the replay value
 * 5) Beat Shapes levels can sometimes be hard to hear and forcing you to just guess where the notes are, making it more of a trial and error.

Reception
Sound Shapes received positive reviews, it was selected for Best Handheld Game in the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. Sound Shapes also won for Best Song in a Game for "Cities" by Beck.

Sound Shapes was also shown at industry conference E3 in 2011 and picked up nominations for best of show award from media sites including IGN, 1UP, and Electric Playground. It also received 2 Game Critics Awards (Best Mobile and Best Casual).

The game has also proven popular among Vita gamers due to its relatively simple and enjoyable Platinum Trophy. This is an award for attaining 100% of the trophies in a video game. The platinum is perceived as attainable and short, and has been featured on multiple websites because of this.