Super Hexagon is a game that requires you to adapt to an ever-changing environment. The more practice you get with all of them, the better prepared you’ll be to survive for longer lengths of time. In fact your death will be so frequent you’ll come to terms with your real-life mortality.īut it’s important not to rage quit (unless you’re taking my sixth piece of advice) because practicing will let you experience more of the traps the game has to offer. I can’t stress enough how much you will die. Whether it’s a close encounter of getting snagged on a corner, or just confronting a new pattern of lines and shapes you haven’t seen before, you will die. It’s very, very easy to get tripped up in this game.
This sounds like an obvious tip, but you’d be surprised when it comes to Super Hexagon. Try turning the music offīut it’s hard to get competitive when you consider the black hole you’d have to jump into to even begin to compete with the many 200+ scores on the leaderboards. But playing around with harder and hardest (and the unlockable hardester and another two levels I can’t even fathom) gives you both an appreciation for hard mode as well as faster reflexes and a deeper understanding of the kind of twists, turns and shapes the game is going to throw at you. That’s because it’s a very, very hard game.
Super Hexagon‘s easiest mode is called hard. Don’t be intimidated by the harder levels It gives you more time to plan ahead, allowing you to take my first piece of advice. At odd moments, your cursor will be in the perfect placement to sneak past multiple obstructions. I’ve escaped the clutches of Super Hexagon‘s geometric shapes by sometimes not even moving the cursor.
In fact, it will almost assuredly be the death of you. You don’t have to be rapidly moving your cursor back and forth. Think before you moveĬontrary to what the pace of the game might make you feel, you can actually pause to think before making a move (until you get to the harder modes, that is). Because the game will eventually force you to whether you like it or not.ĭon’t be too comfortable with going either right or left. Switch up your patterns every once in a while. If you rely too much on moving your cursor right, you might miss a better window to your left. Don’t get stuck in a habitĭon’t be afraid to go left even if you’re used to going right. If your eyes are scoping the field for what’s coming up next, you’ll be better prepared to handle it. The game will start pumping out geometric shapes: squares and hexagons and, later, mazes. Don’t be so nervous that you don’t look aheadīut if you’re too zoned in on what’s directly in front of you, you won’t notice the patterns that are forming just a few inches around that. So let’s skip those first few head-scratchers and get right to the heart of how the game works, complete with tips that should be obvious, but are obscured by the electronicy music and convulsing colour changes. And while it might be hard to wrap your head around initially, you can tell from your first few failures that it’s just a matter of time and practice before you start getting a good handle on it. Actually executing that is anything but simple.
The game only asks you to survive against an onslaught of obstacles. The weekend fame is partially to do with how simple and yet mind-bogglingly hard the action-puzzle game is at the same time. Super Hexagon - the latest game from the creator of the super-hard VVVVV - has been the subject of the past weekend’s many conversations in my circle of video game industry friends and colleagues. Your boss, teacher and parents will understand. If you haven’t played Super Hexagon yet, you need to put everything down immediately and do so.
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