If you are anything like me, you’ve tried to do well by your wallet and living space by not falling into the trend of buying the console-based music games, and subsequently, a glut of plastic instruments. I’ve got nothing against them as games, but they can be costly, so I have resigned myself to latching onto the fallout of the rhythm gaming revolution by playing the PC-born music games like Audiosurf or Frets On Fire instead of two or more Guitar Heroes per year.

This week I have finally gotten around to playing IGF’s 2007 winner of the Best Student Game award, Synaesthete. Created by four students at DigiPen, Synaesthete is something of an “action-rhythm” game set to electronic music. It received some press a few months ago when the awards were doled out, and I am sure there are others, like me, who downloaded it but just let it sit in a forgotten directory for all this time. Time to give it a look!
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