UNBEATABLE

"BEAT"ING ASS AND BEING COOL

Alright. I'm half of a bottle of vodka deep into writing this review. I've played through the story, I've played through a majority of the arcade, I've experienced what I think is the grand majority of this game. It isn't a game. The way I feel, the way that all of this makes me think-- this is infinitely more of an experience rather than a game. Take away the rhythm, take away the all of the artwork, take away every single facet of this masterpiece except the sound. Some creatures worked on this for more than damn-near a decade of their lives, whether thinking about it and conceptualizing it before it even began or putting in all of the effort and work to make it real. The ♥♥♥♥ this game has made me feel in comparison to just about every other thing this existence has wrought upon me is incomparable. That's a lie, actually-- I feel like the only things that have ever come close to this was Disco Elysium before I joined the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ military or the Concealed the Conclusion Touhou fangame before I became anything of an adult. You ever bite your thumb and drag your teeth across the skin and listen to the crumple of flesh that you're crushing between your teeth? unbeatable has me doing that. UNBEATABLE has me looking at the past, present, and future like I haven't done before, or if I [i]have[/i] done before, it's only just made me realize it. This godforsaken creation of multiple human minds has me feeling things I don't think I've ever really felt before. Multiple brilliant, inexplicable-to-me human minds have over the years come up with this wonderful piece of art that has given me reasons beyond anything else I've experienced before a reason to go on. I'm not old, but in my life I haven't really found much of a reason to go past what most people would consider middle-age. I'll philosophize for the sake of philosophy, rather than just necessarily a review of the game. What is middle age? Is it the median level of our lifespan as human beings, or is it a subjective perception of how long each individual thinks it will live? I've never really believed I'd go past the age of 19, yet I've ended up getting closer and closer to twice that. What will I do at the age of 38? Will I ever do something along the lines of what the folks at D-CELL have done here? I feel like I've missed so much since the beginning of this game. From the very first moment I listened to the gameplay trailer involving MIRROR, I knew I was going into something so utterly human. For the majority of my life I've felt like I've been detached from what the experience of humanity really is. Does that sound cliche? Cheesy? Stupid? I dunno. But it's an extremely rare occasion that something ever makes me feel like I'm actually here. I feel an endless depth of sadness that I wasn't able to follow this game since the beginning of its existence within the human mind. There is an infinity of emotion built within this game that I simply will never be able to comprehend, much less able to sympathize with those that have made it. The only reason I know anything about this game is because I helped a good, close friend discover more music that they might be interested in listening to. Lo and behold, I ended up on Jamie Paige. If you don't know who she is, look her up now. If anything about this game resonates with you, then pretty much everything JamieP has made will probably click the same way. It's like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ biblical miracle, the way I ended up discovering this game. You end up watching a music MV that's a collaboration between an excellent artist and a game you've never heard of before and suddenly it's like you've stumbled upon a goldmine. I'm not going to get so ridiculous or conceited as to say this is akin to the likes of the Mona Lisa. Every piece of art is its own genuine, unique experience. But it makes me wonder how people must have felt, seeing the works of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings in the moment of finalization. What was it? Elevating? Did people in the time think that this was going to outlive their years by a magnitude of two, three, five times their own lifespans? He died in 1564 at the age of 88. How long will something like this last in the age of information? There is an endless slew of things, new and [i]re[/i]newed, in this era. As of this review, Michelangelo's arguably best work was finished 514 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YEARS AGO. How long will UNBEATABLE last? How long will MIRROR go on? How far past the lifespans of that of the team behind all of unbeatable go? Probably the most beautiful thing about all of this is that it isn't about competing with other great works of art. It exists alongside them, and the most wonderful and greatest achievement of it all is that this game was even made in the first place. Michelangelo, I know I keep mentioning the bastard, worked entirely alone on the Sistine. UNBEATABLE has had so many brilliant damn people putting in the work behind it, I'd be remiss to mention any one name above them all. [i]"I know you're watching, don't be scared."[/i] There's nothing else like this game. I'm not going to give you a TLDR. If you've come this far, you know you feel something from this. From the very first moment I witnessed this game, I knew I felt something I didn't feel from anything else in the entirety of my life. ♥♥♥♥. I'm nearly an entire bottle of vodka into this review now. I'm correcting every typo as it comes. Take it from someone who's tried a lot of things just wanting to find something they really want to do in life. Been there, seen that, done that, been burned by that and ended up dropping that. Thought about that, didn't care about that, wondered about that, so on and so forth. There isn't much out there that really provokes such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reaction from me as this game has. [i]I started this review eight damn hours ago, stopped close to the end in order to go puke my guts out and then go pass out in bed wondering if I was gonna wake up to finish it. Somehow, by the grace of whatever the hell higher power does or doesn't exist, I don't even have a hangover. Go Poland. Go UNBEATABLE. Go D-CELL and Peak Divide. Still can't type right, but at least my head isn't pounding. I love you guys. Peace. If you fully read all if this review and you like what's in it, do yourself a favor and get the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. Get it twice so a friend can have it. The story doesn't fully pick up until after episode two, but fall for it as hard as I have and you'll find yourself going back to the first two episodes anyway. For the love of god, don't spoil yourself on the story. Please. You can only play something like this for the first time once.[/i]

The actual rhythm gameplay isn't like, the most unique thing in the world, but the story and the vibes definitely are. This game is gonna stick with me very deeply for the rest of my life.

thai language pls

Never had I've ever played a game that made me get cry since Red Dead 2. UNBEATABLE changed that. The music is so good, the story is phenomenal, the art is great, AND they have a Jaimie Paige collab. I will say, the game is a little scuffed. But that is a part of the game, the little dirty marks that lets you know that they didn't want perfection, they wanted something beautiful and touching with amazing music. You can feel that there was passion poured into this game when you play it. This game really is a love story, just not like you would think anyway.

despite following UNBEATABLE's development on-and-off since the demo release, i (ironically) was hesitant to play because i wasn't as good as i thought i should be. i finally got around to it this week and Oh My God. I Get It. as everyone else has said, i did have a couple issues with softlocks and bugs, specifically with later episodes, and some collectibles such as the lighthouse picture were unavailable due to the scene skipping. but despite that, this game's artwork, music, and overall soul resonated with my struggles so deeply that i ended up crying at the final sequence and missing half of the notes (oops). i know literally everyone says that but if everyone says that then it definitely speaks to the quality and dedication of those who worked on it, even if occasionally the game is held together by double sided tape and a kiss on the forehead. it makes me sad that i playing this off for so long but it does feel like poetic justice in a way, i don't think the game would've punched as hard if i didn't. shame i can't get a quaver plush but the artistic integrity is way more important (slight cope there but we move) unbeatable my beloved. except for the ddr minigame. i hate that stupid minigame

Its really hard to play a rhythm game when you are crying by the way