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You're probably right, but that still doesn't quite explain the four story people unless he was just asking friends for ideas because he couldn't think of enough puns.

Currently Playing: Hyper Meteor

What Is It? Asteroids without the shooting

Gameplay Overview: You have this little ship that you maneuver around using the crank. There are enemy ships and meteors flying around that are a mix of black and white. You destroy them by running into the white bits and get destroyed if you run into the black bits. You get more points if you can chain together enemies without going too long in between, so there is this sort of frantic element to things where you need to fling yourself at stuff quickly or lose your multiplier.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/hyper-meteor/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-Hyper Meteor is now the 16th of the 24 Season 1 games Ive played. Ill jump back into the catalogue after this because as I mentioned the season games are pretty noticeably higher quality than the catalogue games and I dont want to run out too quickly.
-Ok so this is like asteroids without the shooting.
-Youre a ship and you need to run into various meteors and enemies. They all have weak spots, which are the white color of object and spots that you cant damage (which are black). Ram into white spots to destroy them and get points. Run into black spots to fail and get laughed at.
-Ok first run I nab a cool 200 points. What is the high score?
-93,333. So I guess you could say I sucked.
-Also hooray for online leaderboards! See other games? Was this so hard?
-Second run goes better and I figure you need to chain attacks together by smashing into stuff in quick succession. Also I get better at the crank and get up to 700 points which is good for 2075th place.
-Thats actually a shocking number of people that got over 700 points considering the total ownership of the console is at like 60k. But still, in your face other 58k people who are worse at Hyper Meteor than me!
-I forgot to mention the controls. You move around the ship via the crank, which works really well. B boosts you forward and A fires off a bomb which kills everything on screen. Those are very limited and you only get one at certain point bench marks, so you have to be careful when you use them.
-Aw yeah now over 2k points. Good for 425th place. IM COMING FOR YOU EDGRRR
-Not really I dont think Ill ever be able to get 93k. 10th place is only 24860, which seems like a more achievable goal.
-Also the sound on this is great. Good little backing track, sound effects, and I even like the voice over that tells you when you go up a level.
-A season game that is well put together and not a failed senior thesis project! Who wouldve guessed?
-Again, point chasers like this just arent my jam. So take everything Im saying and add like 50% more excitement to it. It seems pretty decent so far but Im not positive how long itll keep my interest.
-I like the enemy design in this game - each one feels different and adds something new. You have normal meteors (boring), big meteors that split into those little meteors (less boring), and then interesting stuff like these little triangles that sort of track you and have their weak spot on their backside, and a circle with a smaller rotating circle around it that is its only weak point. I like it when you get up to like level eight and there's crazy stuff everywhere.
-Ok so I finally got a really good run. My goal was to get in the top 100 and reach level 10 (which is the final level that just keeps going on) and I accomplish both with a nice score just a smidge under 9k. Puts me at 72.
-I've probably played for like close to four hours now without getting bored, which is crazy for me. It isn't my favorite but that is more to do with personal preferences than the game's quality here. This is a solid idea and a good execution of it.
-OH! I should mention this is the one title that's made its way off the Playdate, to my knowledge. You can find it on the Switch and the Switch version is apparently better, from what I've heard. It isn't the most complex game but it is a fun enough point chaser and if you are a fan of that you should probably check this one out!
-I'll give it another hour or so to see if I can top that high score and then call it quits. I might actually come back to this one later though which puts this one in rare company on the Playdate.

Time Played: Like four hours, with a lot of restarts if I wasn't happy with the amount of points I got on my first life.
High Score: 8753. Good for 72nd place! Not anywhere close to the top 10 though which seems like its impossible now. That 8.7k run was a really solid run on my part. It has been so easy to get into the top ten in other games because I feel like most people aren't trying. It says something this is the first "point chaser" I've played where I feel like a lot of people have been playing for a good amount of time.
Beaten? Close enough.
Grade: This is like a high 6 low 7. If you like point chasers it could go as high as 8 probably
Favorite Part So Far: I was playing and my kid was like "wow that music's really good". First game to impress the alpha generation on this console.