Boson X Reviews

My brain melted.

Boson X is a hexagonal runner. It's similar to the Flash game series "Run" in the sense that you rotate the screen so the character can jump over gaps. The game is about jumping over platforms that randomly spawn in a set of a few different patterns per level. Occasionally there's blue platforms which increase your energy level. Every time you increase the level, your character runs faster. Once you reach 100%, the level is considered complete. You can keep playing for a higher score but it's way faster than before you reached 100% so it's harder. It's similar to Super Hexagon in the sense that you have to reach a certain requirement to go to the next stage, in this case energy versus the actual 60 seconds of time. It's also about memorizing patterns and having good timing for the different speeds. Every pattern in SH is beatable regardless of what order they show up in. Boson X has a problem where some patterns require you to be on 1 of the 8 axis to get past it, so you can fail with barely any warning. The 4th to last level was way harder for me than the last 3 which felt strange. Also, a good amount of the level's patterns are very visually overwhelming to the point that it's kind of hard to look at. So if you have a issues with flashing lights or busy patterns, then this might not be for you. Regardless, it wasn't that big of a deal for me. It just took some getting used to. I had bought this game back in 2018 and I played it for an hour and then I completely forgot about it. I've recently been getting into grinding achievements so while I was thinking about shortish games in my library, I remembered this game. Despite all of my complaints I really do genuinely like this game. It's really fun. (By the way, holding left or right does the same as holding up for a jump so it's a good idea to practice doing that more often versus just holding jump. It's easier to land from a long jump in my experience.) I'd definitely recommend this game! It's really fun to 100% as well.