Dyad Review: My trip into the CERN Hadron Collider

Dyad Review: My trip into the CERN Hadron Collider






 

Dyad is a PSN digital-download, developed by “[]” Right Square Bracket Left Square Bracket Games for the PS3. It’s a title that once again proves that gameplay mechanics, challenge and artistic vision can carry a title just as easily as graphics and storyline. 

 

Dyad is one of the most intriguing games to come out of the PSN market in sometime. It’s almost impossible to get a true sense of the game while watching a gameplay video, or even watching a friend stream through a level. Dyad connects with something directly inside my brain, it stopped me from reasoning or from planning, it was pure reaction and response. It’s an odd ‘zen-like’ state to be in while playing a game, to have all your attention focused on something so simple yet so complicated to produce.

 

In it’s most basic form, Dyad allows players to thrust forward as pure light through a corridor of energy and sounds. In this corridor players are trying to interact with particles that give you instant abilities or features. You always interact with a simple button-click but how the particles affect you changes throughout the game. At one point interacting with objects can speed you up, other times it can help you break through barriers. In Dyad you never stop moving, always speeding through the “collider” as I called it, avoiding other objects.

 



 

Continuing constant flow is very important in the game, as avoiding obstacles and getting the best time is how you achieve the highest scores. As with many reactions games based on this principle, it is just one simple slipup that causes you to break your focus and leads to a waterfall of erros. Dyad boasts 26 of these alternating levels, levels that change in difficulty and objective.

 

The objectives and gameplay are actually as simple as I’ve described, perhaps even more simple in nature, it’s the perfectly executed level-design and effects of the game that provide the challenge. Flashing lights at 60fps, electronic music beating through my headphones and 1080p glory were all my enjoyment and my enemy. It was almost a discipline to not be distracted by the visual splendor that was the game, it was tempting me to fail..to break focus.

 

Only one person’s quote I felt adequately describes the gameplay I experienced and that man was Bruce Lee. Stared perfectly in Enter the Dragon, Lee said, “Don’t think feel. It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory”.

 

Three-star excellence is your ultimate goal, it probably won’t be on one play-through, unless you are a borderline ninja. Dyad has a platinum trophy for the ultimate challenge for those that wish to obtain it.

 

Dyad is pure entertainment and challenge, Right Square Bracket Left Square Bracket has successfully stripped every other gameplay element from the title and has created a fantastic experience. Dyad has a lot to offer in terms of appeal, there’s rhythm and music, speed and time-objectives and fast pace reaction gameplay.

 

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