By successfully completing the levels, players can access new areas and songs, or be rewarded with in-game items, such as avatar pieces that are needed to activate power-ups. Even though the game is accessible and easy to play for all levels of players, advanced players will be challenged with the game's multiple layers of game play, including hidden levels, power-ups, badges and dance packs. As the game progresses, the beat sequences become more complex, evolving from basic single beats to rapid beats, combinations, sequences and long-hold sustains with breaks. No matter what skill level, players are rewarded with avatars, dance packs and badges to help progress through the game.

Power-ups include slow mo, shield up, 'perfect boost' scoring, and autopilot. Using a simple 2-key tap system (space bar and enter), players tap out the beats to re-energize MEVO and push him forward.Īs the game progresses, the beat sequences become more complex, evolving from basic single beats to rapid beats, combinations, sequences and long-hold sustains with breaks. Sometimes you'll need to tap and hold the button for a predetermined amount of time (such as down the curved stem of a giant flower in the second world) or both keys at the same time or alternate between them quickly ('freestyle').In MEVO's quest to reunite his band, bring back 'FUNK', and defeat the enemy SILENCE, players must successfully progress through five beautifully crafted worlds (Ocean, Jungle, Desert, Space and Wormhole), finding avatars along the way that will help our reluctant hero unlock other levels and reach certain scores.

While navigating through these five worlds - Ocean, Jungle, Desert, Space and Wormhole - players will be instructed to tap the left or right Shift button (or Spacebar and Enter) just as Mevo comes across it. Much like console games like the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series, the core game-play element here is to tap the correct button on your keyboard at the right time. Players must control Mevo through increasingly psychedelic worlds, by running, jumping, swimming and flying from the left side of the screen to the right. Music is good and silence is bad - this is what you need to know going into this game - as our hapless alien critter must reunite his band, the Grooveriders, and bring funk back to save the universe. The game is entertaining and challenging, and what it lacks in the originality department it makes up for in sheer fun. If Super Mario married a guitar god from Rock Band, their offspring might resemble something like MEVO AND THE GROOVERIDERS, a quirky side-scrolling rhythm puzzler for the PC.

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