Super Hexagon gets inside your gut and makes it ache for another round, for the surpassing of your previous time, and for an expertise you’re not quite sure you’ll ever attain…but need to.Super Hexagon Neo Super Hexagon Neo Super Hexagon: The Neo Update (Part 1) And while you may not be able to memorize them with any success, the game’s ability to have you trying “just once more” for thirty minutes generates an almost kinaesthetic symbiosis…an understanding of what’s coming rhythmically trained into you at a level you can feel, but not quite perceive. Rather than procedurally generate all incoming obstacles, the game’s tiers (named things like “point” and “triangle” after the the flow of attacking shapes) each seem to employ one of a couple frenetic patterns. Underlying the game’s little brushstrokes are broad ones that play just as big a part in the success of Cavanagh’s audacious concept. Both aurally and mechanically, the game doesn’t let you quit, and leaves little time for your adrenaline to do anything but flow. And besides running the game’s gauntlet, the only thing you can do when you tap the screen is try again. The only acknowledgement of your existence is the game’s younger Glad0s entering to say “game over” as you suffer a loss and “begin” as dive right back in… something that happens in one tap of the screen. The game gives you no time to dwell on your losses, and doesn’t much care about your victories either. What really takes Super Hexagon from a passing gaming vice to a perverse way of life, however, are the almost imperceptible masterstrokes in its design. The result is an experience caught perpetually somewhere between hypnotic and infuriating, which teaches you to appreciate all the “little wins” that occur as you game. Need help? That’s what your dead simple controls were for. The game’s backdrop, pulsating and spinning aggressively to a chiptune beat, seems to purposefully obscure your view of incoming obstacles, all of which reveal their exit points at the last possible moment. In fact, on your first few tries, don’t be surprised if you’re down and out inside of five seconds. There’s a lot of reminiscing about games that evoke the do or die coin-op glory days, but Cavanagh takes things a step further here, ratcheting up difficulty to a level that would have bankrupted unsuspecting arcade goers inside of five minutes. Armed with split-second reflexes, unwavering focus, and the occasional stretch of plum luck, it’s your job to keep your triangle out of harms way for as long as possible. Then, unceremoniously and for the rest of the game, you’re on your own to survive an endless barrage of incoming lines and shapes as they close in around your titular hexagon. The first thing you’re told – in fact, the only thing you’re told – as you begin Super Hexagon is that you tap the right side of the screen to move your triangle to the right, and the left side to move it left. And then, against all odds, as you crawl your way up from the fetal position on the bathroom floor, the first thing you can think is… wow, I could go for another one of those. I heard they melted someone’s colon.” But you get them any way. And your friends, they’re all saying, “seriously. You know…the ones you have to sign a waiver for.
Only one strategy: avoid everything.įrom independent developer and newly minted sadist Terry Cavanagh ( VVVVVV) comes the gaming equivalent of those obscenely hot wings you get from the secret menu at the dive bar. There’s only one thing you need to do for certain in this retro-tinged thunderdome. Make sure to stare at the rotating background.
Avoid staring at the rotating background. Keep your eyes on the outer edges of the screen to stay ahead of incoming walls.
SUPER HEXAGON HOW TO
Since I’ve started playing it, I’ve heard countless theories on how to best the endlessly twisting geometric minefield of Super Hexagon.
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