The achievement for beating the song 'Close to Me' on Steam is called It's trying to say something, meaning that the square was either trying to tell you not to get close to them, or to stay close to them (its attacks require the player to stay close to dodge them). And I Must Scream: Implied for the blue square friend after it becomes corrupted.Anachronic Order: The Lost Chapter was released in July 2021, over three years after the base game and the rest of story mode, though the intro cutscene explicitly lays out that it takes place directly between the end of the Tutorial chapter and the beginning of the Paradise chapter.We don't even see it joining the Dance Party Ending. It's unclear whether it's a dragon to The Boss, affected by the corruption and turned evil like the two subsequent bosses, just trying to protect its territory, or some other thing.

Because of the game's lack of dialogue, we never do find out what its role and motives are. Ambiguously Evil: The giant pyramid that attacks you out of nowhere in the 'Barracuda' stage.The player must then climb over piles of trash in a quick-time event to avoid being killed. After unlocking the Helicopter friend, the player falls down a chute onto an actual conveyer belt with a similar wall of sawblades.Most notably, the level “Cool Friends (Murtagh & Veschell Remix)” has a literal wall of spinning sawblades which chases the player along a conveyer belt. Advancing Wall of Doom: Many of the levels feature at least one, with the intention of forcing the player into a small area and limiting their movement.Action Bomb: One of the common 'enemies' which can be seen at the start of the game is a pink shape that shortly explodes into a Spread Shot of pink projectiles.The game offers four-player co-op multiplayer, a story mode, and an electronic-chiptune soundtrack by 20 different musicians. The game is best described as a combination of intensely difficult bullet hell games along with rhythm action. Just Shapes & Beats is an indie video game developed by Berzerk Studio for Nintendo Switch and Steam.

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