I Heart Shift is not your typical indie title, in fact it’s one of those games I would ordinarily give a negative score to. At least that’s what my first impression of the game was.
It’s simple graphics and annoying midi level music are a testament to badly executed indie games everywhere…at first that is. This game is total marmite for the brain. You play for a while and think to yourself ‘holy hells this is awful’ then you turn it off vowing never to play again only to come back 10 minutes later for more of the same. It’s soul destroyingly addictive.
The concept is simple enough, move your little blocky guy to a selection of coloured blocks and aim with the right stick before the corresponding block hits the word shoot in order to destroy the block of that colour and pattern. Sounds easy doesn’t it, but it’s a little tricky to begin with. There is also the added factor of the entire screen changing colour to confuse you and with each section of blocks you destroy the game speeds up and the annoying music gets another section of bleeps and blips to accompany it.
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