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Distracting visuals

Video game concept

The visuals of the game distract, obscure, or otherwise actively impair player's ability to follow the actually important parts of gameplay.

9
games
6
platforms
Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Wii)
Geometry Wars: Galaxies
WII 2007-11-20
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Xbox 360)
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
X360 2005-11-22
Sonic CD (Sega-CD/Mega-CD)
Sonic CD
SCD 1993-11
Grid Wars 2 (Linux)
Grid Wars 2
LIN 2006-09-03
Grid Wars 2 (Windows)
Grid Wars 2
WIN 2006-09-03
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Windows)
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
WIN 2007-03-07
Flow:The Sliding
LIN 2017
Grid Wars
WIN 2005-12-21
Grid Wars 2
OSX 2006-09-03
Usually done via large amounts of movement from things that don't matter for gameplay at all. Such as graphical effects on projectiles expanding and showing up better than the projectiles themselves, especially when they exist in large numbers.

Note that most manic shooters don't count since everything that is there is usually quite dangerous and important to be noticed.

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arenashooter geometrywars

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The first Distracting visuals video game was released on November 1993.

Platforms

Windows 3
Linux 2
Mac OS X 1
Mega-CD 1
Wii 1
X360 1

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