The Polynomial - Space of the music

It's interesting to play audio music and see how the world around you reacts with lights and even shooting ships and other things down but I got tired of it quickly because I had played the other one a lot which was the driving one.

Theres no sound wgat

very cool game

How tf is cs even enjoyed by anyone. a masochist would get a better nut, playing cs gun game or watever its called then any amount of whipping will ever give them. Fook this Fooking game valve. still a good gfame tho

I don't really get this game.

I don't get what the name means. The music barely has presence, and doesn't impact the gameplay, so something like Beat Saber would be more engaging. The only points of reference are some dots and spheres so I don't get much of a sense of speed or leading targets as you slide around, and with no wingmen (and apparently no way to dodge incoming shots) the dogfighting experience is rubbish. The map doesn't help, as it's slanted - making it useless.

Sometimes you seem to inexplicably die. Your score on one run might be 30, and then 3,000 on another, and then 30,000 on another. The highscores all maxed out at 2.1B. The menu is a little box in the top left. The game feels like an awkward and pointless gimmick. I played it back in 2011 and probably went that whole decade without thinking about it again. At 73% positive ratings for £4.99 it's overrated. I wouldn't even recommend it with a large discount.

Game was sort of like the old Descent, but with somewhat more slippery controls, and you could use your own music as the background. Ever since the middle of 2021 the game refuses to launch, even after uninstall, reinstall, and file verify. Sadly can no longer recommend this game.

very complicated process to add your own music tired to do the steps in this video .

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did not work for me could not play music from my windows media player. Process was far to complicated found a better program for me project M and its free all you have to do is start the music and it automatically detects it no spaceship or power ups but it did what i wanted to much work when all i want to do is listen to my music and play product refunded after 2 hours trying to figure out how to add my own music . not possible for me

I installed the game and launched it and to my utter surprise, it ran.

The said sequence is the only interesting part of the game. Better pick your high-school mathematics book and solve those annoying polynomial equations than playing this.

Unfortunately I really can't recommend this one, the controls are more slippery than a greased up fat man wrestling butter in an oil spill, the in-game camera probably has ADHD, and the enemies can be sneaky bastards who kill you from behind. Just get Beat Hazard instead.

And even if you don't care about the gameplay... Well, I'm gonna say it--Winamp's visualizer looks waaaay better. And it's free!

This is a first impression, having played for around an hour:

This game is... an experience. In a word, "trippy".

You fly around and kill nazi pacman robots who are trying to eat your ghost allies while flying through a cycle of shifting lightshows. As others have said, it's basically flying through a WinAmp visualizer, and if that sounds appealing, absolutely give it a try.

I was surprised to find it paired well with a variety of different kinds of music and the tone of my experience shifted seamlessly from slow and somber while playing to a moody atmospheric track to a bouncy neon zero-G dance club in space while the particles of light around me pulsed to upbeat 80s or grungy punk music.

Arranging the playlists is kind of a pain, relying on the OS's file navigation system rather than offering its own. Still, for me, this one was worth buying just for the grand sweeps through shining particle vortex streams, once I got comfortable with the flight controls.

The game is also weirdly indie including a bizarre tutorial in the form of a stage made of text and poor quality voice acting.

Most games have a simple "pick a song and go" set-up, but this one doesn't. The easiest way to use this is by importing playlist files which is inconvenient if you have a certain song in mind.
The music you use is primarily background music. The game itself is uhhhh it's a game. You fly around and shoot things, but it's not especially fun. I'd call this a game for stoners but even then it's a bit too complicated to bother setting up for that.
If you just want to look at pretty visuals while listening to music, get MilkDrop 2 for Foobar.

The Polynomial is more of an experience as opposed to a game. You fly around empty space watching gorgeous mathematical patterns of color vibrate according to the beat of the music. Not only that, but you can import your own music files into the game and watch them shake up the patterns for endless possibilities. I reccommend The Polynomial not as a game, but as a very unique experience.

1. Change your sound settings so that the sound input captures your sound output.
2. Imbibe your favorite mind altering substance(s) of choice.
3. Play SomaFM or your favorite dubstep psytrance vaporwave whatever
4. Turn up all the grafix!
5. Transcend this plane of existence to nirvana.

FULL OF STARS/10

- 'Be your own DJ.' -

The Polynomial catapults you into a space arena, with colorful stars and lights illuminating your endless surroundings.
Controlling your own little spaceship, shooting 'enemy' objectives and gather power-up items makes it feel like an all classic space-shooter game.
It’s more a case of floating around, attacking anything that comes in your direction, exploring the intriguing and trippy world.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=602627619
Customize your own playlists while navigating along gorgeous environments, tweaking the settings to the style of music, flying around and listening to your favorite songs.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=567639290
The editor mode gives you plenty of freedom to mess around on over 30 custom designed maps, by changing the fov or adding post processing effects to your game.
The developer did a beautiful job, making the game analyzing your music and syncing it to their individual beat, starting from simple classic, jazz or dubstep and R&B.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=602630634
+Visually refreshing and unique game.
+Easy gameplay with lots of graphical options and customizable playlists.

The only downside, after a while it'll appear to be the same over and over once you've gone through all maps.

Verdict:
Overall, I had a great time exploring and enjoying playing with my own music. The flashing lighting effects can be trippy for the eye, so not an 'everybody's' game with the massive amount of crazy color particles on screen.
I still recommend anybody to give it a try!


8/10

This is a brilliant music-based game. Beautiful artwork interspersed with game-play you can choose intensity level on. My favorite is listening to some very chill electronic music and fly around while I trip on my substance of choice. Very recommend much amazing!

After trying Polynomial, I can honestly say this title will be collecting dust for many years to come. I did like some of the visuals and vector graphics, but I found nothing that makes this game enjoyable to play.

It's like a modern 3D Atari Space shooter with blinging lights that go with your custom music. Get the highest score possible and post it on Youtube for bragging rights if you want. In the end, it's all about challenging your high score and doing better than what you did in the past.

I do NOT recommend this game to discerning gamers. I HIGHLY recommend this game to someone who is looking for a cool thing to have on one's LED Projector wallscreen while playing phat beats or haunting melodies from one's "altered states of consciousness special music" folder.
I use Winamp's milkdrop for the beginning of the party, and then when guests are looking to relax and play simple mindless no-consequence gaming in the smoking room we switch to the Polynomial and the music never skips a beat.
Also, I understand the game does get more challenging when you crank up the difficulty, and that's the only way to get the higher level achievements, but I don't use this game for gaming.

The game mechanics are great. You fire your inobtrusive, silent weapon and attempt to hit an enemy this is often impossibly far away, carefully compensating for the great distance by projecting the target's trajectory in your imagination. That's hard to do, so this game is a challenge.

Its best features are the silent weapons fire and the silent seamless transition from getting silently shot to death by nazi robots to silently respawning; your music won't skip a beat, so people in the next room won't go, "Hey, what happened to the music!?"

Also, this game may cause people on drugs to stop talking and stare for a long time. Get an LED projector is my point.

On a side note, have any of you other reviewers actually done acid? This game will not cause you to become every person who has ever lived, so it does not feel like an acid trip. That being said, you should smoke the stuff that was recently legalized in your state before playing

This is quite an odd "game" as its more of a free-flying space shooter within a winamp visualization. It lacks direction and feels more like a test of visual effects and messing with a game engine then an actual game.

The achievements are mostly along the lines of "do X in Y amount of time" and in general really uninspired and feeds the feeling of the whole thing being a test more a game even more.

Time to 100%: 1-3 hours

Firstly, this game isn't fun to play for hours on end, but it's great to put on a second display when you have company over and let them play around with it. You're likely going to have music on low volume anyway, so spend the extra minute to put this on.

Also, I bought this game kinda because of the science behind watching a fish swim. It relaxes the mind, and allows us to think clearly. This game will do that for you, depending on what music you choose.

Definitely one of the most striking games I've ever played. This game is seriously beautiful, if you can get it cranked up in the visual department. All of the environments dynamically react to the music as well, which turns everything into a moving, pretty mass of colours and shapes.

The gameplay is pretty decent as well, although there's very little instruction in terms of how the scoring works, and most of the achievements look like impossible goals. This is fine with me though, I'm perfectly happy to fly around and take in the sights and sounds.

This game is an extremely cool audiovisual experience.

I enjoy most chillout and rhythm games, but this one was not fun to play.

I think it was the utter lack of feedback on the outcomes of any actions taken that really sealed my dislike of the game. I remember reading that the game was designed to be 'played however you want', but in practice, it's just like a blank piece of paper that your ink runs straight off.

Would not recommend.

Oh my! Oh my, oh my! That is really all I can say for this game. It is absolutely beautiful. Depending on the music you put with it, it can be relaxing, hectic, chaotic, blissful...anything! If you do not own this game, GET IT NOW! Might I recommend using the song called 'Promise' from Thomas Bergersen's 'Illusions'.
Honestly this is a rival for audiosurf and in many ways more than a match for it! I cannot recommend this enough!

What is this? Am I winning or losing? Did I explode that guy, or is that just what he looks like when he attacks? So many goddamned things on the screen. Are those bullets? Enemies? Friends?

Perhaps this is what drugs are like. I have no idea what the hell is happening, or if I'm winning or losing, but the music and visuals are great.

Okay, as cool as this looks (I mean look at the trailer), I've yet to have my game look anything like the trailer. I don't know what song they played, but I've tried quite a diverse selection and I got nothing.

I'm not even sure how to really play this game. Sooner or later it got really boring. It looks nice but that's about all you can give it.

Sorry.

Verdict: Skip