Разработчик: Wesley LaFerriere
Описание
- 5 insanely challenging levels
- Eons of addicting gameplay
- Simplistic, trippy neo-arcade aesthetic
- Rapid electronic soundtrack by Valiant (AKA Adhenoid), RollingFacade, and ForeverBound
- Obsessive global / friend leaderboards
- Full joystick support
- Geometrically accurate inter-polygonal warfare
- Realistic drunk mode
- And much much more.
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For those with photosensitive epilepsy, an epileptic friendly mode has been added. If you are not satisfied with this option, and are unable to play this game, you are entitled to a refund.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 Support
Mac
- OS: OSX Lion
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 Support
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 Support
- Additional Notes: Java runtime environment 7 is not bundled; must be installed manually.
Отзывы пользователей
I gave the first level only a hundred tries, tried the other levels a dozen or so times each, and got tired of it.
It's pretty cool the dev is giving this one out for free. RFLEX is a hard game; screenshots show it takes most folks 1000+ tries to survive a minute on the last (5th) level. The bonus modes even more so. Just be ready for that kind of commitment.
For new players, RFLEX could have benefited from a set of tutorials. Something where the obstacles follow stronger patterns, or where the middle dots aren't constantly shifting. That would create a good difficulty slope and preserve the harder approach to levels later.
But as is, the game is clean, minimalist, and the initial difficulty spike warrants just skipping this one over.
Very fun game to pick up and play for a few minutes. The quick gameplay keeps you on your toes and the simplcity is perfect. Great for times when you've been sitting at the computer working on an essay; doing taxes, generally boing stuff; boot RFLEX up, play for a few minutes, get back to work. Great soundtrack, visuals are clean and simple, overall very well made enjoyable game.
Pretty neat little game. The basic idea is brillant and hooked me right away ( also, I personally really like difficult games). The pattern of the movements is easy to understand and learn, but unfortunaly I seem to the reflexes of a dead cow, so I will need some time to finish all of the levels. ;)
However, I recommend this to to anyone who is into skilled based games, or who enjoy games like "Super Hexagon", "Velocibox", "Geometry Dash" ect.
I picked up this game on sale as filler to reach the $5 mark when making another purchase. It piqued my interest, being Super Hexagon-esque, but wasn't sure what to expect. What I got was a well crafted game with fast and smooth animations, snappy response, decent music, and (most importantly for this type of game) the ability to retry nearly instantly. I have a few nitpicks here and there, but ended up enjoying this game better than the other one I bought. Overall, a very enjoyable near-sighted bullet dodging simulator.
I will be making many comparisons to Super Hexagon, as that's the closest game to this style that does so much right.
Full Review
Controls
It uses six buttons, escape, spacebar and arrowkeys/WASD, can't get much easier than that. Hitting one is satisfying, as your pentagon responds quickly and nearly instantly. What's also neat, is this game supports controller. Pretty standard, left stick to move, A and B to navigate menus. But this leads into one of my qualms. Only the left stick can be used for navigation, not the right. I would have preferred being able to use my dominant hand for movement. Another aspect about controller is that it's easy to accidentally move to a corner rather than straight to the side, leading to an untimely restart. That comes across as more of a limitation of a controller interface, and of course, can be avoided if you use keyboard. I have a gripe about the keyboard as well, though. If using the standard three fingers on the movement keys, you will need to have one of those jump between keys, most probably UP and DOWN. That action makes it easy to slip up in those directions. Normally I wouldn't remotely consider this an issue, but since this game relies on millisecond precision, something as benign as jumping between rows can slip you up. It comes across as a bit of an imbalance, rather than intentional difficulty jump, as LEFT and RIGHT won't suffer from that.
Music
Genre and selection is, in my opinion, perfect for this game. Fast-paced, electronic with some elements of chiptune, keep the blood pumping and usually go nicely with the difficulty. It looks like three different artists contributed music, Adhenoid, ForeverBound, and RollingFacade. The game starts out strong with a fantastic track. Reignite by ForeverBound instantly became my favorite track in the game, followed by Adhenoid's Machinarium and Stepping into Madness. RollingFacade contributed two tracks, but I didn't like either one. Laser Dragon works in the game, but I didn't find it to be anything exceptional. That's fine, I don't expect to like every track in a game. Handicapped is the oddball out. It's tempo is noticeably slower than all the others, and that might make sense if it were for the easiest difficulty, but it comes with the next step up. Slower tempo, mixed with continually faster speed, doesn't make for a good accompaniment.
Gameplay
RFLEX plays very similarly to Super Hexagon, as it's the same same vein of game. Start, dodge, restart. Good choice of clean and clear styling with no antialiasing or upscaling issues. The objects are either drawn vectors or very high resolution images. It has stylized scan lines and screen curvature, which you can even change the intensity of, like a CRT monitor. Nice bit of character to differentiate it from other similar styles. Everything is golden in the graphics department.
As for difficulty and progression, my experience has been good. The way each level seems to progress is that it starts slow and incrementally gets faster and faster until (I presume) it's humanly impossible to keep up, as opposed to Super Hexagon which seems to go a static speed for each minute. This means that it will get incredibly difficult to go for distance. My (current) personal best on the easiest difficulty for RFLEX is 88 seconds compared to around 5 minutes on Super Hexagon. At this time, the record for the easiest on RFLEX is about 170 seconds, so don't expect to be able to sit for a long (3+ minutes) single round. Transitions between levels goes pretty well, however something seems a little off with the last two. I find the second hardest difficulty to be the hardest. I've been able to get consistently further on the hardest than the preceeding difficulty. I don't know if this is frequent for others, but it's certainly not what seems to be intended.
This being said, difficulty between levels increases mostly fine. With each level, the blocks for each sequence are thrown from a variety of more directions and employ some other tricks to try to get you to slip up. There are some sneaky visual tricks up its sleeve, but lose potency with exposure, as any trick does. Also similar to Super Hexagon, is how the game handles each sequence of blocks. It picks from a random set of predetermined layouts and throws it at you from an arbitrary direction. This means that over time it's possible to memorize the sequence, basically guaranteeing that if you make it past the leading block, you'll make it past the remaining.
Conclusion
RFLEX presents a highly enjoyable experience in the same vein as Super Hexagon. It's a fast paced, retro styled, dodging game that's easily picked up, difficult to master, and lets you retry milliseconds after you inevitably fail. It has a few flaws, but gets the core gameplay completely right, making this game a great experience.
Another example of the brilliance of simplicity. This game is easy to learn difficult to master, can be played anytime you have a few moments to spare, but be careful as the addictive nature can keep you busy for hours!
Pros: easy control scheme, catchy non-abrasive electronic soundtrack, pleasant colour scheme, addictive gameplay
Cons: none
I'm a sucker for this kind of game..
If you are looking for a fast action and morish game, this will be perfect. I place this in the same bracket of gaming as 'Super Hexagon' and 'Linea, the Game'.
From it's amazing soundtrack, to the simple game design, this is y a game for anyone who has a spare 5 minutes, and wants to kill time!
Would definitely recommend!
Okay, so I found this searching through the games on sale.
I had never heard of this game, so it was nice plunging myself into a game I knew nothing about.
Anyway, I played the first few seconds and was hooked.
Would definitely buy this for all my friends if I had the money.
fun game but i usually end up wanting to vomit after around 2 seconds of gameplay
EDIT: The Dev of the game attemped to assist me with my problems even if there are problems with the viewpoint this shows what made gaming great
Changing the review to positive
RFLEX utilizes simple mechanics coupled with difficult reaction based game play to challenge you and slowly rework your mind into being able to focus and process the obsticales it throws at you. A great game to sit down and play for a few minutes each day.
RFLEX is a great game that challenges, and tests your "RFLEX"s, this game is also a lot harder than most people make it out to be, as one wrong move could screw you over.
The game has a massive replayability due to it's 2 modes, Normal Mode and Drunk Mode (Ctrl), the feature to get high on the leaderboards, and how addicting it is. While playing, you can detect patterns, each level have their own set of patterns, if you want to get the high times, you need to know what these patterens are.
It's simplicity is done in a way to where it's is addicting and doesn't bore the players, but it also doesn't make it too complex and put off players. The simplicity then carries forward to it's achievements as they are quite straight forward to achieve them.
Even though my time may be small, I recommend this game to anyone who likes a challenge, and has a hour or less to loose.
Bought this game because it looked kinda like super hexagon.Halfour later and 105+ tries and can only manage 35 seconds. Music = 10/10
Fun little time waster with a simple conept and exelent execution.
I would say there is a lot worse that i have bought for 4 bucks the lunch i ate today included... Now if you will excuse me the macho burrito from Del Taco i ate for lunch is making a run for the border.
My friend told me, that this game can't be *that* hard, if you see the lines where the obstacles will flow. I knew it will be much harder that it seems to be. Anyway, it took me over 600 attemps until I finished third level. I don't know why, but I simply couldn't beat it. The feel when you finally beat the level is awesome, though. Also, your heart wants to break out of your chest, don't let it! ;)
If you like simple but hard games like this one, don't hesitate and buy it. Totally worths it.
When you're tired and annoyed, because you can't get over 60 seconds, take a break for a few minutes. I had troubles from the beginning too, but as of now, I'm in the first places in the leaderboards and still keep playing next levels.
+ simple graphics, catchy colors
+ easy to play, hard to master
+ 5+5 levels (it's enough, trust me)
+/- decent music (does not impress, but it's not bad either; I mostly play with custom music)
+/- I couldn't get used to the controls (maybe it was my bad habit from other rage games)
- nothing
And look for patterns. They're there, you just won't see them right away. They will help you pretty much.
8/10
UPDATE: I beat the game today (13. 12. 2016), incredible feeling of satisfaction. It took me about 11 hours of actual playing time. Well, now is the time to edit my achievement showcase, I guess.
It started as fun.. almost *passed out* in the end. ;)
Go play it! Go!
Amazing game but haven't even completed the first level...
I think a split screen mode with WASD V.S Arrow keys would be really cool.
Fun, fast, gaming sessions make it easy to pick up and hard to put down. Difficult reaction and coordination based gameplay a lot like Super Hexagon. I am throughly enjoying it.
This game is one of the most addictive and infuriating games i have ever had the (mis)fortune. Everything from the sound track to the visual style (Which is simple but effective) draws you in (Although the brightness of the colours can be a bit overbearing at times). Overall From the ammount of the game i have played so far, i am enjoying it. The frustration, the urge to better myself and gain better times will keep me coming back to this game.
the controls are simple, the ability to turn on an Epliepsy friendly mode is a great feature for this title (Due to some of the graphics present). And the ability to increase and decrease the curve of the screan is also a nice featuer (I personally dislike the curve of the screen but others may like it).
Overall, i personally feel it is a good game to play if you want to kill some time, it does hurt your eyes slightly due to the brightness of some of the colours but i personally dont feel that it should deter people from purchasing and playing this game.
Very fast, very challenging. Impressively well polished game with a great, consistent style. I just wish my reflexes - and thus my scores - would not be as bad.
If you liked the feeling of frustration everytime you died in Super Hexagon, you're going to love the feeling of frustration every time you die in RFLEX. My only advice is
git gud scrub
10/10 would attempt to get good but die trying again
Only played this for a short time but it's not the type of game you need to pile in hours of gameplay to conclude an accurate opinion.
https://youtu.be/s6r2sb9vmqk
This is so similar to Super Hexagon I actually had to check to see if it was made by the same team! If twitch reflex is what you're after then RFLEX is an excellent choice.
Chasing the high-scores is incredibly challenging and motivating. When you fail (which you will do, many, many times!) a restart takes miliseconds. It's super easy to have 50x plays on this game in no time at all!
My initial review outlined a couple of bugs with the game which weren't game-breaking but were annoyances. The Dev was extremely proactive and resolved both these issues within hours. Good stuff!!
Without doubt, if you enjoy Super Hexagon you will love this. It has a good variety of game modes, the music is cool and I can see it starting a lot of inter-friend rivalry chasing each others leaderboard times!
By the way, it looks really easy... but it's not!!
Wonderful game. Especially to those who enjoy hard, challenging games like Super Hexagon.
The game features 5 different unique levels that all have their own challenging patterns.
There's also a drunk mode, what basically inverts your movement direction for those who want an extra challenge,
Be sure to give it a look!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Wesley LaFerriere |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 94% положительных (66) |