Sayonara Wild Hearts is an interactive album that pairs its arcade-like levels with its soundtrack. Like the game’s main character, Sayonara pulled me out of my sleepy, comfortable room, and thrust me into a nearly psychedelic headspace that didn’t relent for an entire hour. I began Sayonara Wild Hearts with tepid enthusiasm, but by the time I reached the title screen, I was already sold. I picked it up on a whim, because Annapurna Interactive is one of my favorite publishers whose games are always excellent. Playing Sayonara Wild Hearts has been like an adrenaline needle to the heart of my now dormant love for music. Podcasts took over my headspace, and months started to go by where I’d forget that I have an entire music library at my fingertips. But at some point throughout college, that passion died down into a hobby, which died down to where I can see dust accumulating on my instruments. For years, I felt that playing music was my life’s passion and that my career would revolve around music in some capacity. I picked up my first guitar when I was in 7th grade, and by 9th grade, I was playing concerts in my hometown with makeshift rock bands. When you hit an obstacle, that bonus multiplier seems to reset.Music has been a dominating force in my life for as long as I can remember. I hadn't appreciated earlier that the score for each of the hollow hearts you collect increases each time for as long as you're chaining them (even if you miss some along the way).
I've just hit Gold on Begin Again after a good 10 or so goes despite only getting 2 out of 3 diamonds on that run. One of the diamonds is tougher to find, plus it's the first of the longer levels so you need to be consistent throughout.įurther to this, ensuring you don't hit an obstacle is much more important than going for every single heart (or diamond, contrary to what I just said up there) if you want to rack up high scores.
Level 5, Begin Again, does step things up though. I've managed to get Gold on all of them and I definitely haven't got close to hitting every pickup. The key seems to be finding all the diamonds (?) along the way. However, having just played back through the first four levels I'd say the Gold scoring limits are fairly generous so far. I thought that on my first play through too.
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