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Music Catch
Catch the colorful shapes that appear when the music plays! Yellow shapes give you a bonus and multiply your points, but watch out for the red ones! The more shapes you get, the closer you'll be to earning medals, winning achievements and unlocking new songs! Play original songs from such games as Ricochet, Build in Time, Airport Mania, The Great Tree and more, or import your own MP3 songs and play along with them! Turn music into a wildly exciting game experience with Music Catch!
It's the perfect de-stressing game. With Isaac Shepard's calm yet elegant music, you will be able to play away your tension.
I just simply loved it.
This review has an average score of 5 - Based on 8 ratings Login to rate this review
agngoo's Review - September 15, 2008
Full Version (PC)
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What You Give is What You Get
At first blush, this game is boring, flat, and simplistic. More like a toy than an actual game. And really, taken as such, that's where it's strength lies: it's not a challenging game meant to occupy your mind. It's a relaxing, no-stress toy to play with your music with.
Really, what you give to this game is what you'll get back: if you're the sort of person who plays simple games as something to do while listening to music, like me, then this is right up your alley. However, if music is just background noise while you're playing a game, then this won't be your cup of tea.
The graphics are simplistic, not remarkable but they get the job done in the end. I agree with others that variety in colors and shapes would have increased the replayability a bit, especially if the unique shape sets from the pre-programmed songs were available for songs you upload yourself. Possibly even a feature that lets you choose your shape set with a "random" option to create the effect it has now, so you can select shape sets that are easier or more challenging or just go better with the song in your mind.
The sound is where the give and take definitely shows up: most of the time, the music will be your own, and that's the only sound in the game. One would assume you'd like what you're hearing in that case, but there are some pre-set songs as well, and they are just as fun to play through as your hand-picked tracks, especially the beautiful original composition for the game "Before the Dawn".
The gameplay might take a bit more imagination to get anything from it, as it's pretty straight forward (catch as many shapes as possible, collect yellow shapes for multipliers and avoid red ones that remove multipliers), but you can challenge yourself to avoid all red shapes for an entire album or just your favorite song, or to get a platinum medal on your favorite song.
All in all, it's a very low-stress game, not meant to challenge you, just give you a diversion while you listen...
This review has an average score of 4.7 - Based on 26 ratings Login to rate this review
imjake9's Review - August 25, 2008
Demo Version (PC)
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They've Done it Again!
Wow, I loved the online game Music Catch, and I was thrilled to see they'd made a downloadable version! I love the elegant simplicity of the game, and the music is great. It's everything the online game is, and much more.
I've heard people complain about the music upload feature, and I wasn't too sure about it either at first. But I uploaded one of my favorite songs (and a great song too in my opinion), and I loved it! My only complaint about this feature is the fact that the only music format supported is MP3s, MP4s would be nice.
My only other complaint is a small one. The only two visual options are windowed and fullscreen, and since I have my monitor set to a very high resolution, "fullscreen" doesn't actually fill the screen. Apart from that though, I would highly recommend this game to anyone, despite the bad reviews.
This review has an average score of 4.3 - Based on 20 ratings Login to rate this review
