The music changes with each floor you descend within a zone, for instance, forcing you to adjust to a new tempo. Cleverly, though, Crypt of the NecroDancer’s randomly generated dungeons never let you get too complacent. Monkeys move on every beat, while red dragons can one-shot you from across the screen.Each failed run teaches you more about how each enemy moves, which then – hopefully – makes it easier to execute your dance of death next time. This might be about knowing that an enemy jumps forward one square every four beats, which enables you to jump in and attack twice before jumping away and having it follow so you then have three more beats to finish it off. The gameplay, then, is entirely geared around manipulating enemy movement patterns so that you can safely attack. Need to let an enemy jump one tile closer while you stay in the same spot? This is the way to do that without losing your coin multiplier. The dirt walls within each dungeon can be dug out, for instance, which is great from an exploration/discovery perspective, but it also enables you to ‘dig buffer’ – to dig a dirt tile out and thus stay stationary for a beat. It’s pretty cool working out how to outmanoeuvre NecroDancer's varied bestiary. You’ll only take damage if the enemy then tries to jump into your tile and doesn’t die from your attack. Instead, you want to move so you’re adjacent to an enemy, which then lets you attack. If you and an enemy both try and hop onto the same tile on the same beat you’ll take damage. The rules of engagement are pretty simple.
As the music plays your enemies come ever closer, forcing you to find and exploit an opening before it’s too late. You’re actually doing more of a nervous jig than a dance as you hop from tile to tile, puzzle solving to the beat.
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