1.6 hours played
Written 1 year and 7 months ago
Guess this is gonna be that one critical review among the positive ones.
So, first of all, to give you an idea of the rhythm game aspect; it plays pretty much like guitar hero. You select the lane of the incoming note, and hit another key to strum once it is on the judgement area. Not exactly something I am used to doing on keyboard, and I am actually not much of a fan. I would have preferred if it's just hit the lane when the note is in the judgement area, so it'd play like DJMAX and similar rhythm games that I play a lot. Because, not gonna lie, while I am getting the hang of it relatively fast, I still make mistakes more than I'd like due to the double inputs and needing to use different fingers than I am used to. The game comes with, from what I've seen, only 10 songs. Not exactly a vast library that I'd wanna invest much practice time on to build up muscle memory so I can master this kind of rhythm gameplay. Not to mention; the songs are also really short.
BUT... I do have to add it isn't TOO big of a deal, just a bit of a personal gripe. Way I see it, as this game is more of an experience, a story based game that you just play through once, maybe dabble in the songs a couple more times, before shelving it. It's not the kind of rhythm game made to be booted up a lot just to play like I would rhythm game only games, and that is fine.
The music is... unfortunately not my taste, but that is naturally personal. Don't really dig the trumpet stuff. You might love it, though. Many people seem to do so. But I was led to believe I'd love it too after reading all the reviews raving about it, so... be forewarned that it may actually not be to your liking all that much, either. It's not like I hate it, I just am not jiving with parts of it, namely the trumpet blaring through it. I do like the guitar riffs and such a lot though, which is the parts you get to play. But it tends to get diluted by the trumpet. I've found myself listening to the trumpet getting solos while all I had to do was hit a note once every 5 seconds, which was really boring, and when it's not even pleasing to my ears, it felt really bad. I think the latter is a good point of critique though, taste in music notwithstanding. As, when playing a rhythm game, I want to be kept occupied by playing it. Not just be left waiting for a new note to finally come in.
So, that's it on the rhythm game bits, so what about the story? Well, the story is not really all that much to write home about either, unfortunately. It's just not very riveting. The lack of punctuation many times is also rather jarring. It looks off, because, well, it is. The protagonist is also a spoiled and lazy young woman who is awful to her mom. I really do not like her. Then again, some people do be like that so it's at least realistic. But in reality, I'd hate such kind of people too so there's that.
The art is nice, I dig the unique style.
Anyway, not a bad game as a whole, but, certainly not worth the full price imo, not even at 10% off which I'd gotten it for. I recommend waiting for a bigger discount. After all, there's many free to play rhythm games with quality gameplay and songs, and again, the story isn't really adding much to the experience in my opinion to justify the price tag.
