.detuned is a pointless, joyless, and contentless "game" that is over far too quickly

User Rating: 4.5 | .detuned PS3
A music visualizer is often described as a piece of artwork that visualizes a song playing in the background. Sony's new PSN game .detuned is billed as such an experience but this description is misleading, as is the claim that users can create their own artwork to go with their own songs. In fact, .detuned is a pointless, featureless and visually static "game" that is so light on content that you could see everything the game has to offer in less time than it would take to read this review.

.detuned takes place in a blue room, with blue monsters dancing in the background and a giant blue rubber duck pulsating off to one side. Your character sits on a chair in the center of the room. To "play" .detuned you simply hit a series of buttons to change the shape of your character's head. Different combos will turn his head into a variety of shapes and objects. One combo gives him an elephant head, another turns his head into a balloon, while a third merely gives him a long nose. There are around a dozen shapes to turn your character's head into, and once his head is changed you can rotate the right analog stick to have your character perform an action like walking around his chair or waving his hands.

And that is .detuned in a nutshell. You can upload your own songs to play in the background but the choice of song doesn't effect anything in the game. You can easily see everything .detuned has to offer in under ten minutes and probably wont want to come back to it afterwards. On a lone bright note you can earn a dozen or so trophies including a gold one in those ten minutes for little to no effort.

And that essentially describes .detuned. Play a song and change your character's head in a blue room. I should note that the game only costs $3, but other $3 games on PSN offer far more content than this. As it is, .detuned is pointless and joyless and is so short it almost seems criminal to charge any money for it. If you are a trophy whore looking to level up your profile as quickly and effortlessly as possible then you wont find a better option than .detuned. If, instead, you actually want a game to go with your trophies then most any other game on PSN will offer more enjoyment and more content than .detuned.