Neon Rhythm Plus turns every song into a boss fight across three lanes
A hand-drawn cyberpunk rhythm game that started on Newgrounds, where each track is a duel and the campaign was built in the same editor you get.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Neon Rhythm Plus splits the screen in two, and the split is the first thing worth admiring. The top half is a painted cutscene panel: a cyborg with pale blue hair and a red scarf, seen from behind, squaring up to whatever is on the far side, with a health bar for each of them and a skull icon on the enemy's. The bottom half is the actual work, three purple lanes running left to right, the hero planted at one end, notes coming in from the other, and a big red COMBO counter overhead. One half tells you the story. The other half asks you to keep time. Three lanes and a boss at the end of each...