When comparing The Polynomial - Space of the Music vs Beat Hazard, the Slant community recommends Beat Hazard for most people. In the question“What are the best PC games that integrate your music into gameplay?” Beat Hazard is ranked 1st while The Polynomial - Space of the Music is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Beat Hazard is:
There are multiple difficulty modes in the game allowing for anyone's preferred skill level of gameplay as well as Insane, and suicidal if you really want to fail or experience a challenge
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Pros
Pro Lasting gameplay due to random generation
Random generation of environments is done depending on what music one uploads to the game, this makes for lasting gameplay due to the endless amount of levels that can be generated.
Pro Multiple difficulty modes
There are multiple difficulty modes in the game allowing for anyone's preferred skill level of gameplay as well as Insane, and suicidal if you really want to fail or experience a challenge
Pro Bragging rights through Steam achievements
Players can compete with one another through Steam achievements in the game. There are global leaderboards where one can compare their score against all other players making for a good method to judge how good one is as well as allows one to have some bragging rights.
Pro Music based gameplay
Use your own music to change gameplay and spawning enemies, which allows for endless replayability through the way it generates random content.
Pro Multiple ships/characters for replayability
Several characters and their ships are available to choose from in order to change up the gameplay.
Pro Easily change strobe effects
There is a setting in the game that allows users to change the strobe effects in the game, which may help those that do not enjoy the effects or find them medically dangerous.
Cons
Con Not entirely fleshed out
The game feels a bit more like a proof of concept more than a game, something a game could be built out of but in its current form feels as though it falls short.
Con Default settings are very flashy
The default strobe settings may not suitable for people with a sensitivity for strobe effects. Though this can be changed in the setting to lower how much strobing is going on in the game.