However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it at The Game Awards 2019 as it might just be a GOTY contender. From a purely visual standpoint, it’s not hard to see why, as the beautiful and vibrant contrasting colours gave Wild Hearts some flair in amongst a presentation filled with realistic AAA experiences and Josef Fares not swearing at the camera. From top-note to drydown, vividly here and then vividly gone.I’ve had my eye on Sayonara Wild Hearts from Simogo ever since it was announced at Geoff Keighley’s Festival of Fun Times, or The Game Awards 2018 if you prefer. Maybe this is perfume, following the shape of the breeze. But then I think back to its atomiser bursts of transitions, one idea gusting into another, and I wonder if it's all more ephemeral that that. It can reference Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio, Dyad and Thumper while remaining entirely coherent, entirely itself.Īnd as for the shape, I would say it's more of a playlist than the standard video game movie pastiche. And so dense! Its exuberance is precision, its chaos is sheer choreography. Sayonara Wild Hearts is such a simple thing but also such a complex thing, such a heartfelt thing. All of this is the work of Simogo, a studio whose games I love, and whose forthcoming projects I always worry about slightly, worrying because the team seems to have such confidence and such taste that I am forever waiting for things to be over-worked, over-considered, to become too stylish, sharp-edged and chilly.
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