![]() ![]() Sayonara was made on the Unity engine and that tracks the game’s movements are very smooth and floaty it reminds me of other games made on that engine like Monument Valley or Inside. At the start of every level, you go through a Heartbreak Subspace, the pre-game to the actual level brighter blues and purples are featured here, all blurring together to highlight the speed of these segments if they went with more pink tones in these moments I fear it might be too much for the player. When moving through a city street, pink stands out as the color of the buildings when moving through the woods on your stag (yeah, you read that right, you ride a stag), deep blues are the star of the show. Sayonara’s aesthetic is very synthwave blue, purple, and pink are the stars of the show throughout, and each color choice fits. To say this game is pretty is an understatement. But when I realized they were using the Major Arcana tarot cards as their narrative structure, I was hooked. I’m a big softy who loves to see people succeed, so I was all in. ![]() Developed by Simogo ( Year Walk, Device6), Sayonara Wild Hearts lays its genius bare before we even press play you’re put in the shoes of a woman whose felt grief and loss and pain, and you want nothing more than to help her, to see her succeed. Maybe not necessarily romantic heartbreak, but if you’ve ever lost someone or something that was important to you, where it feels like the universe is crashing down on you, then you can relate to this woman. We’ve all felt heartbreak grand enough to shatter the cosmos and beyond. Before anything happens, before you glide across synth heavy cityscapes on your motorcycle or battle girl gangs in dance fights, the narrator (the wonderful Queen Latifah) tells you something that makes the game relatable. So our saga begins tonight, yet eons ago. Until one day, her heart broke so violently, that her sorrow echoed through space and time. “Not long ago, in a town much like yours, there was a young woman who was very happy. But then I pressed play on my Nintendo Switch, and after a motorcycle centric load screen, I heard this: Other than that, I didn’t know what to expect, but I was excited for a poppy, dreamy rush of a game. As a bisexual who loves all kinds of music, this was right up my alley. Prior to playing it, all I knew was that it was very music focused, the art was stylized, and the color palette very similar to the bisexual pride flag. I didn’t know much about Sayonara Wild Hearts going in. ![]()
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