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I'm not naturally a fan of difficult action games: I just don't have the reflexes for them. VideoGame A retro game with modern sensibilities I'd recommend buying it for the music alone, though it has some of the best chiptunes I've ever heard. VVVVVV is a clever, fun, but practically nonexistant game. I wonder if the story could have been more compelling if executed with no dialogue at all. The story simply doesn't explain itself as if an outline of a good story was written, but then they forgot to fill it in with plot. And that's it there are literally no spoilers to give. The plot involves the captain of some ship crash-landing in some dimension, where there's some kind of disturbance caused by some kind of technology planted by some kind of forerunners in some kind of alternate reality. It had me interested at the beginning when the ship crash-landed and teleported Viridian somewhere random, but from there. And because the game has no powerups, there's nothing to really look for except the level entrances or the shiny trinkets. The overworld itself, while nonlinear, is completely, utterly, disappointingly empty there are no rogue enemies to dodge or puzzles to solve, and you'd be lucky to find a couple of the eponymous spikes here and there. Each level demonstrates a new mechanic, but each is only about 12 rooms long, and are exactly as linear as a Mario level. However, this basically turns the overworld into a level-select hub with all five levels already unlocked. The game is touted as being nonlinear with no restrictions except for your skill. Unless you're interested in speedrunning or beating the game with minimal deaths, don't expect to get more than an hour's worth of gameplay, or maybe up to three if you aren't a veteran of other, harder games like IWBTG. a five-roomed secret lab with one minigame in it. You might take another hour to hunt down the game's shiny trinkets, only to unlock. The gameplay length is less than an hour if you have the game memorized, you can beat it in about 20 minutes.

However, while VVVVVV had 10/10 presentation and 10/10 music, as a game, it was simply. Bit Trip and Super Meat Boy were both up my alley.

I love games with awesome chiptunes and intense but deterministic difficulty. I'm going to go out on a limb and admit that I think VVVVVV is highly overrated. VideoGame Terry Cavanagh shows us he has some good ideas, then simply gives up.