Simogo·Released Sep 19, 2019·Single player
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a euphoric music video dream about being awesome, riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.
Sayonara Wild Hearts has moments of brilliance, but too often, movement and timing issues disrupt its enchanting aesthetic.
Despite its short length, this is still very much a trip worth taking.
Like if Rainbow Road was refracted through Cardcaptor Sakura instead of Mario Kart
I quite enjoyed looking at Sayonara Wild Hearts, even though interacting with it left me cold.
Sayonara Wild Hearts is the video game equivalent of Prince: it's extremely short and its journey maybe ends a little sooner than you'd hoped, but it packs so many varied and beautiful ideas into its brief life and masters so many different styles that even though there's a real disappointment it's over so quickly, what it did give you will remain with you for an extremely long time. A true creative masterpiece.
It’s undeniably cool, and if it’s not your thing, then Sayonara Wild Hearts is like, whatever. It wants to take whoever does love it and ride off into the neon sunset with them.
Music and art combine for a stirring, unique experience.
A huge part of any creative endeavour, I suspect, is learning how to stick things together. It's so strange, really, th…
