This week's DEMO is the PlayStation 4 version of HYPERWIRED, from developers SIDRALGAMES and publishers Selecta Play and Entalto Publishing.
The main gameplay element to HYPERWIRED is it's plug mechanic. your ship does not have infinite resources, so it has to plug into satellites to refill. once each satellite has been visited, you're then able to move onto the next stage. it feels like each stage is procedurally generated.
On the start screen there is an option to do the tutorial so i start this video doing that. but i wouldn't say it's that great of a tutorial. it goes over some basic controls but i feel like it fails to explain how the game works. more could be done to highlight aspects of the UI, too. HYPERWIRED is another example of a game that shows an aspect of the game's mechanics that wasn't covered in the tutorial quite soon after said tutorial is completed.
This demo doesn't have a link to the PSN store, nor does it have any trailers or screenshots showcasing other aspects of the game. from this demo, HYPERWIRED comes across as a run based game where we go as far as we can until we're stopped. what's not clear from this demo is what happens next. there were no upgrades for me to buy and nothing i collected seem to carry over. so, from the demo, i'm left with wondering if we're waiting for good luck to find a run that'll take us further than before or if there's other aspects to the gameplay that the demo didn't highlight.
I did enjoy the music and overall aesthetic of the game, but i came away from this demo having not really enjoy it. i had questions it wouldn't answer, and as it never really explained what we're doing in game it quite quickly got boring doing the same thing over and over.
