Steam Tip: Inside My Radio is a rhythm-driven platformer that you play to the beat
Aka my nightmare
No sentence in a game terrifies me quite like "all your actions must be performed to the beat".
I lost the beat, once, and I can never get it back. I am rhythmically challenged. Forever destined to fail at Guitar Hero and Donkey Konga. I have bad timing and can't play instruments. I am not designed for Inside My Radio.
A fact confirmed by my Steam achievement, "What don't you get", for missing the beat on five subsequent button press. What don't I get? Music, evidently.
But I still like this charming little rhythm-driven platformer. I like the art style, the soundtrack, and the fact that people are still making games for those who actually have timing.
The game is a relatively simple and sedate platformer, but obviously things are more tricky when you have to time every jump, dash, or butt-stomp to the beat. When you can only jump twice a second, you have to think carefully before you do anything.
You can turn on a handy visual guide, which applies a metronome to your hero and shows you when to press. But the idea is to graduate from that, and play just by feeling the ever-changing tune.
The music really comes to life as you get better, too. Performing an action plays a note, so soon you start to time your jumps and dashes not necessarily for the fastest times or the most efficient route, but for the most pleasing song.
Or you will, of course. I still suck. Inside My Radio is on PC only for £10.99
