Beyond timing you mean? Because I'm going to go with yellow crit is perfect within one window and rainbow is crit within an even tighter window.
Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line announced, releasing February 16, 2023 for PS4 & Switch
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Beyond timing you mean? Because I'm going to go with yellow crit is perfect within one window and rainbow is crit within an even tighter window.
I think Lightning has access to Ruin. I don't remember the details, but it didn't seem super strong. It has no element, and it seems in this game elemental attacks are going to be important
I figured that could be it, but I still find it weird that they call it the same. They also count the same towards the score, so it's weird to make that differentiation.
Played the demo last night. Found it quite difficult!
The button presses weren't matching up with the music in my mind.
The button presses weren't matching up with the music in my mind.
Oh I didn't notice that it was the same values.
Also protip!
In Settings -> MS Settings -> Trigger Speed, you can adjust the scroll speed of notes. Setting it to 1.5-2.0 has made a huge difference.
Closer to nine months. But yes, think of them less as season passes and more like compilation packs.
Rainbow Crits actually do score a little higher, roughly 14% more per note over a regular Crit. In essence, you need to nail all Rainbow Crits in order to attain the maximum 9,999,999 score rank.
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I really love this game so far. And I'm terrible at it because I've got no sense of rhythm. (As in, even in junior high band, the teacher asked me not to play during concerts because I was always off-beat.) It's all sight reading for me, so to speak. Glad there's a demo because the full title would punish me.
Oh, ok, that makes sense! I thought they scored the same because they both count as "critical" in the results screen count.
Much more than that. The website is listing the completely new songs compared to the latest Theatrythm entry which was never released in the west, because it's an arcade-only game: All Star Carnival.
So, the latest game we were actually able to play was Curtain Call on the 3DS, with 221 songs (+100 through DLC).
Compare to Final Bar Line, which has 385 tracks right off the bat (and roughly +120 DLC tracks).
In essence, Final Bar Line is a port of All Star Carnival for consoles.
Found a discussion on reddit. Someone used an emulator called Teknoparrot and they got All Star Carnival running on the Steam Deck in a permanent adventure mode with an English patch. Obviously this is a no-go legal wise unless you actually own an All-Star Carnival cabinet.
Also I don't know how it would properly translate the arcades touch style control panel to the Steam Deck input options. The fact this is possible though fascinates me.
Me personally? I'm content with the demo until I get my hands on the full game. I also been revisiting Curtain Call on my 2DS XL. I recently bought the Digital copy of Theatrhythm and all of it's DLC before they shut down the 3DS download servers.
Also I don't know how it would properly translate the arcades touch style control panel to the Steam Deck input options. The fact this is possible though fascinates me.
Me personally? I'm content with the demo until I get my hands on the full game. I also been revisiting Curtain Call on my 2DS XL. I recently bought the Digital copy of Theatrhythm and all of it's DLC before they shut down the 3DS download servers.
Both Rainbow Crits and regular crits are listed in the results screen separately.
eyyy fellow ASC Steam Deck user!! Playing ASC on the deck really makes me wish FBL was on PC 😭Found a discussion on reddit. Someone used an emulator called Teknoparrot and they got All Star Carnival running on the Steam Deck in a permanent adventure mode with an English patch. Obviously this is a no-go legal wise unless you actually own an All-Star Carnival cabinet.
Also I don't know how it would properly translate the arcades touch style control panel to the Steam Deck input options. The fact this is possible though fascinates me.
Me personally? I'm content with the demo until I get my hands on the full game. I also been revisiting Curtain Call on my 2DS XL. I recently bought the Digital copy of Theatrhythm and all of it's DLC before they shut down the 3DS download servers.
In Chunithm it's called a Justice Critical. I think that's fun.
Anyone know what the timing windows are for each judgment? Always curious how it compares to other games.
I don't know the numbers, but Perfect Crits feel very loose for being Perfect Crits. I also feel like you can pretty much completely miss the circle and get a Good.
That's because you have your speed increased. The note will travel further past the circle due to increased speed.
Those wavy field BGM lines sure went from easy peasey with the stylus to "I can't tell where my marker is!" with the stick, otherwise I've adapted to button controls well enough.
Hard to consider picking this up Day 1 though when the game and its boatload of DLC will probably be 50% off before the years end, after all I already have Curtain Call covering a lot of what's here.
Hard to consider picking this up Day 1 though when the game and its boatload of DLC will probably be 50% off before the years end, after all I already have Curtain Call covering a lot of what's here.
I enjoyed the game to an extent but also have reservations. I love the concept. But I think it's perhaps a little frustrating with those green waves/holding down those multiple connected green lines. Maybe some accessibility to turn those off would help. Also the screen gets busy when a summon comes in. Unfortunately my reactions these days aren't as good as they used to be so anything beyond the easiest difficulty is out the realms of my skills.
However I'd love to pick it up later on at a good price as there's a lot of content seemingly and there's a lot of great, memorable FF music.
However I'd love to pick it up later on at a good price as there's a lot of content seemingly and there's a lot of great, memorable FF music.
I love the song but the short loop kills it. I kind of wish they just went with the pixel remake versions since the track is changed up for the second loop.
It's a bit of a bummer that they went with the original versions of those songs when most of the several different remasters would work way better in a rhythm game but it is what it is. :/
Pretty much. I really wish they had used the Pixel Remaster versions of the music for Final Bar Line, as those arrangements are often gorgeous. The beeps and boops of the NES start to really grate after a while. Especially, as you mentioned, for the songs which loop several times to fill out a decent track length.
In the demo only FFII suffers from this though imo. And I imagine probably FFI in the full game. FFV has short loops for both its battle themes but they're still incredibly fun to play and also just plain amazing on their own. FFV's soundtrack is so good. I can't wait to play that eventually.
No but I honestly think it's pretty likely that one of the two ????????? dlc packs listed late in the year is for XVI
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The arcade controls are basically the same as FBL. Just pretend you're reduced down to your two thumbsticks and one button on each side and that's basically the arcade controls.Found a discussion on reddit. Someone used an emulator called Teknoparrot and they got All Star Carnival running on the Steam Deck in a permanent adventure mode with an English patch. Obviously this is a no-go legal wise unless you actually own an All-Star Carnival cabinet.
Also I don't know how it would properly translate the arcades touch style control panel to the Steam Deck input options. The fact this is possible though fascinates me.
Me personally? I'm content with the demo until I get my hands on the full game. I also been revisiting Curtain Call on my 2DS XL. I recently bought the Digital copy of Theatrhythm and all of it's DLC before they shut down the 3DS download servers.
Sadly, FF2 songs aren't really the best. FF3 has a few more interesting tracks, and FF1 is... well, FF1, but it does have a few nice tracks, such as Matoya's cave (really wish they added the FFXIV version, to be honest - though, let's face it, they could almost make a Theatrythm solely with FFXIV's OST).
FF1 to FF3, overall, have really short tracks, so the looping is inevitable.
yeah my plan is to do things in series order when the game comes out as I think the music generally gets better over time
Inb4 they show up constantly in Endless Quest / Random mode... D:
I'd rather focus on songs I actually like here. I guess I'll alternate between unlocking quests from games I like, and games I feel "meh" about.
Lmao. Shit I guess I'll do the same. But yeah FFIII has some good stuff like Eternal Wind and the Cloud of Darkness theme. Forgot what it's called.
There's a Theatrhythm-specific arrangement of Matoya (originally featured in All-Star Carnival) that's a lot of fun to look forward to:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75pSavY7rTI
Most of TFFAC's happy hardcore arrangements are great additions to the song roster, in fact. :)
So, summons-wise. Am I crazy or do different summons have different charge gauges AND different damage distributions? It feels like Knights of the Round requires way more successful note hits to charge up to full, and Alexander's attack animation seems to hit for way longer than most of the others.
What are we thinking of how the summons work?
What are we thinking of how the summons work?
You aren't crazy I tested this the other night, Knight of the Round do a LOT of damage but take *so* long to charge that even if you perfect a song if the song's length is short you might never see it. There seem to be abilities that boost the rate that summons charge, I know Alphinaud has one for example, and if this is like Curtain Call you will be able to get skill scrolls to transfer skills between characters.
I'm fairly sure you can in fact because a few of the skills go out of their way to say that they can only be used on a certain character but others do not, so I'm assuming anyone can get any skill except for character exclusive specials like Noctis' Armiger
Let it go man. It's NES tunes! Music has evolved since then! Let that poor sacred cow die!
That being said, the first one who dares to talk shit about "The Moon Theme" from Ducktales will be hacked to pieces.
It's being made with the intention of being the last. Granted the devs also felt the same when making Curtain Call.
Yeah I'm kinda hoping it does extra well so they rethink it, I feel like a game like this could at least get longterm support. Though I know I'm being a bit greedy when the amount of songs is already this big