Sayonara Wild Hearts is a pop music fever dream in video game form

Playing through a brief demo of Sayonara Wild Hearts is like riding a motorcycle through a Carly Rae Jepsen album.

At E3 2019, I had a chance to check out around 10 minutes of the game, which is being developed by Swedish studio Simogo, the same team behind titles like Device 6 and Year Walk, and published by Annapurna Interactive. It’s like nothing the studio has done before: bright, vibrant, and absolutely bursting with energy.

Sayonara Wild Hearts is essentially a rhythm game. In the opening sequence I played, an unnamed character wakes up in some sort of dream state, and then skateboards along a twisting track to catch a floating butterfly. As colorful pop music blares in the background, you have to switch lanes to both grab…

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