TheNewEGS | Sayonara Wild Hearts (PS5) - Full Game | Most Outstanding SoundTrack | Best Quality (4K 60FPS) @TheNewEGS | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Sayonara Wild Hearts received "generally favorable reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game was generally praised for its visuals and soundtrack.

The game's soundtrack was critically acclaimed. PlayStation Universe thought the soundtrack was "absolutely outstanding", and the best soundtrack of any game released in 2019. Edge thought that track "Mine" sounded like "a parallel-universe chart-topper", while "The World We Knew" "a gorgeous, swooning, sigh of a ballad."

Eurogamer's Christian Donlan enjoyed the game's genre switches, saying "Sayonara Wild Hearts can change suits so often because the rules of the game remain constant". Jenna Stoeber of Polygon thought that Sayonara was "much more style than substance", but that the visuals and soundtrack of the game were strong enough to justify a playthrough.

Nicole Clark of Vice thought that the ending of Sayonara was a departure from the usual hero's journey in a fictive narritive. "Rather than becoming your mask, you abandon it. Rather than becoming someone new and unbreakable you recover to the point of self-acceptance."

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a rhythm game broken into 23 levels. In each level, the player controls the main character as they automatically travel through a surrealistic landscape alongside a pop music soundtrack. The exact mechanics of each level change, but in general the player attempts to guide the character to collect hearts across the level to earn points, while avoiding obstacles. In some levels, the player will be prompted to press a button in time with the soundtrack to make a jump or avoid an obstacle. Other levels may require the player to move a cursor on screen to target a bow-and-arrow weapon to defeat enemies, in a manner similar to Rez.[1] During the levels, the player will encounter different boss encounters, which will incorporate a mix of movement and timed button presses to avoid attacks. The player earns points for hearts collected, timing on button presses, and avoiding obstacles, and are rated on a bronze, silver, or gold rating for each. Should the player hit an obstacle or enemy projectile, they are returned to a checkpoint. If the player fails to clear a section after a few tries, the game provides a means for the player to skip that section, only losing out on possible points that could be earned.

00:00 Prologue
01:06 Clair de lune
03:47 Heartbreak I
05:00 Doki Doki Rush
06:25 Fighting Hearts
07:29 Begin Again
12:02 Heartbreak II
13:11 Forest Ghost
14:45 Forest Dub
15:38 Laser Love
16:41 Dead of Night
19:25 Heartbreak III
20:59 Hearts & Swords
22:15 Parallel Universes
23:42 Mine
25:55 Heartbreak IV
27:04 Night Drift
28:44 Reverie
30:37 The World We Knew
33:55 Heartbreak V
35:49 Transonic Gravity
37:32 Hate Skulls
38:43 Inside
42:13 Wild Hearts Never Die
48:16 Epilogue