This last
weeks i´ve been spending some time with rythm games on the ipad so i´m gonna
make a small review of some of them that have caught my interest.
Groove Catch
Groove
Catch is a fun game that features lots and lots of cool
music to play with. 4 modes are
available all of them played on portrait screen mode.
In the
first two ones, notes appear on the screen while a line marks the tempo going
top to down on the screen and reappearing back on top at the end. When the tempo line hits the notes you have
to activate them to count toward your score depending on your precision with
the timing. On one mode you touch directly on the notes on the screen (like
Ouendan or Elite Beat Agents) while on the other a small keyboard at the bottom
of the screen is your activation method, in a gimmick to Guitar Hero/Rock Band.
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| Anime graphics are plenty. Including that chibi version of Cutie Pai´s Vocalist. |
The two
others are a bit different and instead become a Catch game where you have to get
as much of the falling fruits and ice cream as possible. The modes are in fact variants
of the same game which different control modes, be it touch or tilt-based.
Groove Catch features 3 difficulty modes for each track, but also tracks range a lot in
speed which also increases difficulty. This that should be a good point is kind
of confusing as you will find that even in easy mode some tracks are insanely
difficult! To make things worse, when you start missing some notes an alarm
sound starts to play and the screen starts to blink in intense red: result it’s
even more difficult to see the notes and hear the tune when losing, effectively
killing you for good.
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| Where is your skill now?! |
The game
features a lot of music from indie Japanese bands, with very diverse music
styles that will send you from the Vocaloid tunes of Hatsune Miku to the rock
of Broken Doll and back to the j-pop of the girl band Cutie Pai. Some
electronic tunes and even gothic can be found for those fans of Ali Project.
The game is
now priced at 1$ (it was 3$) and has 14 playable tracks (the developer has
already promised 5 more on the next update), and 14 more buyable DLC tracks –
At 1$ each. (With more to come, too). While it does not seem very different proportion from other music games. The fact of
seeing so many locked tracks in a game you have already paid for kind of makes you feel like you were tricked. I
think they seriously need to place a store somewhere in the app to leave the locked songs there, as it gets annoying to have them mixed with the songs you bought
already.
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| The game and the store being mixed is quite annoying. |
As a side
note, the developer offers the possibility for other indie bands to feature in
their game and get them to be known, which I find to be a very nice symbiotic
initiative. The game also enhances this by publicizing the artist´s itunes
albums, so if you like the tunes you have quick access to a place where to buy
it.
You will like it:
If you are into japanese music and vocaloid.
You like insanely difficult rythm games.
You won’t like it:
If high pitch voices annoy you.
If you don't like being continuously rubbed in the face the DLC you don't want to buy.
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