Sayonara Wild Hearts Reviews

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10 / 10.0
May 10, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a perfect experience. It may not last long, but it will certainly draw you in with its story, keep you there with its variety of gameplay, and then bring the entire experience together with its amazing visuals and music.

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Game Revolution
Camden Jones
Top Critic
Sep 17, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a fleeting game, yet, like the best records, is worth flipping over, restarting, and putting on repeat once it wraps up its last track.

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USgamer
iew by Nadia Oxford, Staff Writer
Top Critic
Sep 17, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a quick but intense ride through a landscape that's been made dangerous and jagged by broken hearts and pop music. Its unusual style makes the road hard to see from time to time, but people who love Simogo's games will love riding with The Fool.

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Eurogamer
Top Critic
Recommended
Sep 17, 2019

Maybe this is perfume, following the shape of the breeze. From top-note to drydown, vividly here and then vividly gone.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts isn't particularly long, but the catchy pop score and variety of levels give you a decent challenge.

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10 / 10
Sep 17, 2019

Truly incredible, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a pop-culture gem that celebrates music and games in a passionately individual way. There has never been anything else quite like it, and if you have even a passing interest in gaming’s inherent value you need to play it. And then play it again.

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Kyle Hilliard
Top Critic
7.9 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts' music and art combine for a stirring, unique experience.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2019

It's the absurdity and wonder of some Eurovision performances made playable. Like a good record from a band I like, I'll spin this game often. That makes the secrets beneath the surface more appealing as Sayonara Wild Hearts might be one of my favorite music albums of the year in addition to being a killer video game experience.

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10 / 10.0
Sep 18, 2019
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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Sep 18, 2019

It’s undeniably cool, and if it’s not your thing, then Sayonara Wild Hearts is like, whatever. It wants to take whoever does love it and ride off into the neon sunset with them.

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8 / 10
Sep 18, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is much more than the rhythm game it looks like : it is a whrilwind of visuals and sounds, where electro-pop music depicts a wild chase, sets in a neon-looking city. As short as it is intense, this experience is like no other, and find its inspiration in many genres. Like a good LP, it will plays over and over, until you know it by heart.

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9 / 10
Sep 18, 2019

Everything works in concert in Sayonara Wild Hearts. It's sublime.

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9 / 10
Sep 18, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is the video game equivalent of Prince: it's extremely short and its journey maybe ends a little sooner than you'd hoped, but it packs so many varied and beautiful ideas into its brief life and masters so many different styles that even though there's a real disappointment it's over so quickly, what it did give you will remain with you for an extremely long time. A true creative masterpiece.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 19, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts crackles with style, but is an ultimately inconsequential ride

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GameSpew
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Sep 20, 2019

The true beauty of Sayonara Wild Hearts is simply enjoying the exceptional music and getting lost in the visuals. Mistaking this for a simple rhythm game is to do it a disservice. It may be less than that in terms of gameplay, but it’s a hell of a lot more in terms of audiovisual accomplishment.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 23, 2019

A beautifully made score chaser which has that rarest of things - a soul. Sayonara Wild Hearts isn't just a game, it's an emotional band aid that feels like a warm phantom embrace. Absolutely essential stuff.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 23, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts is what you'd get if Robyn ran the Grid from Tron. A stunning collection of music, action, heart, and radiant setpieces, it's easily one of the most inventive and unpredictable games of 2019. And it could have been one of the best too if only the developers had made the decision to present this album as a whole upfront rather than take players through it track by track.

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9.5 / 10.0
Sep 23, 2019

Short, sweet, and simple, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a package of positivity, with music and visuals that will sure to win anyone over.

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Unscored
Sep 23, 2019

Sayonara Wild Hearts feels like the perfect game to relax to just before going to bed, with hopes of washing my dreams with the pink-purple colors of a neon sunset, surrounded by beautiful people who fight as if they’re falling in love.

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4.5 / 5.0
Sep 24, 2019

Let it be known that one needs to really play Sayonora Wild Hearts in order to truly experience it.

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