Luminarrow and Hanenbrow are pretty much the two most praised, though I personally prefer Trapy to Hanenbrow.
On a different note, above is a short clip of Electroplankton's origins. Toshio Iwai originally conceived most of the plankton as installation media for art events. I'd love to play with these.
I'm thinking Luminarrow, Hanenbrow, Trapy and Beatness. Lumiloop, or whatever, also sounds interesting and I think I might get more mileage out of that than most folks...I tend to be a sucker for spacey, hypnotic loops...
I'll wait on the reviews, but I think those might be my winners.
@Turkey Just to let you know, I found Trapy to be pretty boring and repetitive. It is hard to make music, and the tones don't really sound cool like on nanocarp lumiloop and hanenbow.
@Turkey Just to let you know, I found Trapy to be pretty boring and repetitive. It is hard to make music, and the tones don't really sound cool like on nanocarp lumiloop and hanenbow.
.....and you're the 1st person I ever knew that thinks that.
That's why you're still a kid. ADD ME ON PSN: xnintendorkx Youtube account: xNintendorkx
I am loving Sun Animalcules right now. More fun than I remember. It is very easy to layer sounds, and fun to watch. They get a bit creepy when the plankton grow their largest, though.
Will play Hanenbrow and Luminarrow later. Time for more Void.
@nintendork Well, it's just my opinion, so I guess my brain is messed up. I just can't find a way to make it more interesting [how do you control the sounds they make? If I knew you could, I would think higher of it.
Corbie Are you going to review the new ones? Cause I like your reviews-they tell me the button controls that I had no idea about [I give electroplankton as a whole an 8 out of ten though].
@Corbie: Right now, he's not feeling so great plus we're very swamped, the both of us. We'll be reviewing Bit.Trip VOID and Billy has reviewed Bit.Trip CORE and I'll be going back to review CORE in the next little while. Thanks for your interest, Corbs.
@abgar yesterday night I had nanocarp on audience mode while I was lying in bed and I fell asleep about 1 hour before my usual time. [I normally falll asleep at twelve. Electroplankton is very soothing.
Any new impressions, guys (from those who got 'em but haven't posted)? Perhaps on Crystals or Lumiloop?
I got all but Vol....er...Varvoice? this week. Anyway, I would recommend Luminarrow/Luminaria to anyone curious about Electroplankton. That and Hanenbow are very accessible and thoroughly enjoyable for any number of people. It has already been described; and there's lots of videos on YouTube. So I'll leave it at that.
Another one I enjoyed was Sun-Animalcule. It has the ability to layer over different tones and also gives you great control because you can place the plankton wherever you want on the screen and get rid of it with a tap. Basically, the game runs in 5 minute intervals where it's lighting shifts from morning to noon to afternoon to evening to night. The sun-shaped plankton pop up when you touch the screen during the morning to evening "minutes". The moon-shaped plankton show up at night. You can speed up the process of going from day to night by using the D-pad. The sun-shaped plankton have a more bright tone to them than the subdued moon ones. But you can still alter the way each one sounds depending on where you place the plankton: left is deeper, right is higher. You can also move a plankton or get rid of it after you have placed it. The plankton steadily grows and changes in sound as it "ages" until it pops and disappears. Luminarrow is more fast-paced and continues on indefinitely. So which one I recommend kind of depends on the kind of person you are. Both are great, in my opinion.
Lumiloop is very mesmerizing. I'm not sure I can recommend it to everyone because all you do is spin the circles. I enjoy it because of the lulling sounds and the lovely glowing; but I recommend looking at YouTube videos first. It does make some great sounds in conjunction with other instruments as you will see in the numerous YouTube videos featuring it. Spinning the donuts left or right produces a different sound and color.
Marine-Crystals/Marine-Snow is also one that I enjoy, not as much as Sun-Animalcule or Luminaria; but I did enjoy this one. Basically, this is the piano of the group. This is where you will find your piano sounds. But, like a piano, it does not keep the sound going. You have to keep tapping the floating snowflakes to keep up the melody. Unlike a piano, your "keys", which are the snowflakes, keep moving all over the screen. This enables you to strike multiples keys at once; but it can be difficult to keep track of where your high and low keys ran off to. (Although, they do slowly drift back into their original places.) In addition to the piano sounds of the main snowflakes, which are the hexagons, there is the xylophone for the triangle, the music box plings of the square, and the chimes of the pentagon. The snowflakes can start off in three different arrangements: spread out evenly on the screen, arranged in two circles: one bigger and one smaller inside the big one, or arranged in an oval. You flip through the arrangements and the snowflake shapes with the Select button. Again, use your discretion. I like it; but not everyone will. There aren't as many videos of this one; but I have described it as best as I can.
Order of favorites: Hanenbow = Sun-Animalcule = Luminarrow/Luminaria > Marine-Crystals/Marine-Snow > Lumiloop > Trapy/Tracy > Nanocarp
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