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- Thumper is a great rhythm action game, with strong visuals, fantastic design, and more speed than Keanu Reeves on a bus rigged to explode. Read full review TheSixthAxis Dominic Leighton 9 / 10 Thumper remains a true VR classic, and its upgrade for PSVR2 makes it the best place to experience its violent audio charms.
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Oct 11, 2016 · Thumper is a one-of-a-kind gaming experience. It is at first immediately familiar as an entry in the now classic rhythm game genre, but enhances virtually every aspect of the...
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Feb 27, 2023 · Thumper was a highlight of PSVR's launch lineup back in 2016 — check out our review through the link to learn why. It's a relentless, frantic rhythm title that has you racing through space,...
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- An abstract horror game couched in the intensity of rhythm action.
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By Chloi Rad
Updated: Aug 18, 2017 6:13 pm
Posted: Oct 5, 2016 12:00 pm
Thumper is one of those game that stays in your head long after you’ve put it down. It’s a horror game disguised as rhythm action, a high-speed trip through an abstract hell full of imaginative cosmic entities and set to the beat of a sinister orchestral score. Its surprisingly sophisticated one-button control scheme makes it invitingly accessible while still allowing for a ton of tricky, precision-based maneuvers, and it’s all executed with intense physical brutality and speed that adds an exhilarating violence to your every action.
Thumper manages to do a lot with very little input, making it both extremely easy to pick up and difficult to master. This is a tempting combination that demands replaying, in part because of how nuanced the rhythm-based gameplay becomes later on. The first level does a fine job introducing you to the most basic mechanics, which lay the groundwork for the gradually intensifying and increasingly interesting layers of obstacles that build up over each of its nine stages.
Using a DualShock 4, you tap X to make your little chrome space beetle press, or “thump,” glowing rectangles on the track, spaced out based on very specific beats to make them easier and more catchy to hit. Holding down X lets you speed through dangerous red bars unscathed, which make a satisfying clunk as you barrel into them, while holding X and using the left analog stick to hold left or right lets you survive turns. Both obstacles make a distinct sound shortly before they appear, giving you some much-needed forewarning. The fact that obstacles sometimes show up so last-second makes each course that much more thrilling, but the sound cues keep it fair.
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There is a disappointing lack of visual variation to distinguish levels from each other beyond speed and mechanics, and sometimes sights, like the tentacles that surround the track or the interior of a sci-fi looking tunnel disappear too soon into your periphery. Considering how awesome and huge and weird everything looks in VR, it would’ve been nice to have the option to look back and see things disappear into the distance to create the illusion that I was surrounded by the abyss rather than just plummeting straight at it. But I rarely felt the need to scrutinize my surroundings beyond what I could take in during its high-speed action anyway, especially since the sights in front of you are always powerful enough as it is. Each level contains a few much-needed interludes, which provide a temporary respite from the breakneck action and gave me the chance to get a closer look at my unnatural surroundings without risking a crash.
Thumper’s brutal, breakneck speed and precision-based musical action kept me entranced for all nine of its bizarre, nightmarish stages, which contained enough nuanced high score-chasing tricks to demand several replays already. To really master Thumper’s many layers of rhythm-based mechanisms would take much more time than the 10 or so hours it tak...
Thumper is a better vr puzzle-“get in the zone” game than Tetris Effect. Change my mind.
Oct 10, 2016 · Thumper is a fun and visually aggressive, face paced rhythm survival game. As a space scarab you’ll enjoy banking and weaving your way through hours of increasingly intense levels. It doesn't make use of any mechanics that are unique to VR and plays identically on the screen as it does on the headset, however the novelty of being in VR ...
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Oct 21, 2016 · Thumper works beautifully in VR, where the private cinema of the headset locks you onto the rail your silver-plated trilobite rides, tackles all manner of rhythm action violence before...
Jan 31, 2024 · Thumper remains a true VR classic, and its upgrade for PSVR2 makes it the best place to experience its violent audio charms.
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