Backbeat for Nintendo Switch is in the works, according to Ichigoichie, the developer of Hexagroove. This is the first official indication that the multilinear time-based puzzle/strategy game would be released for Nintendo’s console.
About Backbeat
Stephanie “Watts” Watson, an aspiring bassist, hopped from audition to audition, never finding music that spoke to her, until she found the power of funk. She enlists the help of a bunch of local amateurs to compete in the Battle of the Bands against art school darlings La Tormenta.
Backbeat contains more than 40 stages for Watts and her companions to go through “in their quest to break away from boredom and reach popularity.” It includes rewindable and multilinear beat-based environment puzzles, player-controlled compositions formed from their movement choices, and real-life jam band music rules and methods that may help them get the best score possible. New music, stunts, and locations may also be unlocked.
How Backbeat works
Each member of your band takes a distinct path across the map, experiencing various solutions and difficulties. A turn and a portion of the timeline are used while advancing a character, setting up encounters with other characters and adversaries at various times in time. Reversing a turn undoes your action, enabling you to come up with better answers and different approaches to challenges.
Manipulate each character individually, rewinding or fast-forwarding through the chronology to reach her present location. Changes in time are represented in each character’s past and current development and actions, opening up certain options and closing others.
Each character has a resource-limited super move that may be activated under certain circumstances. Tiptoe through small passages with your bassist, glide past guards with your keytarist, blast through walls with your drummer, or blow opponents out of the way with your powerful super sax. Super movements should be used strategically to increase the number of answers to each problem and to get the highest possible score.
How and when you may move and interact with things throughout the levels is determined by four resource-based musical metrics. When utilized inefficiently, they may entirely halt progress, but when used correctly, they can generate incredible musical chains and high scores.
Backbeat plans to debut in the second half of 2022.
