Wired All Wrong
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It's unlocked at 15,000 Rhythmia.
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy |OT| Yes, "One-Winged Angel" is in! Quit asking!
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It's unlocked at 15,000 Rhythmia.
I just realized why I don't really like the EMS stages...they run at 30fps. Feels a lot less responsive.
Yeah, I agree with that. Why should 100% criticals with items be worth less than 100% criticals without items? It makes no sense at all.
Yeah, I agree with that. Why should 100% criticals with items be worth less than 100% criticals without items? It makes no sense at all.
Munkyspace
Member
For the same reason that taking down a charging elephant with a chain gun is less impressive than taking it down naked, I suppose.
Is there one for all criticals on all ultimate? That would be crazy.
Items don't actually help you to hit a full combo though, as far as I know. They help you survive or farm for more items, but they don't help you to hit notes.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I don't mind the dichotomy - I go unequipped for Series/Challenge runs, and fully equipped for Chaos Shrine runs.
You shouldn't be missing any gameplay. Unequip items and skills for challenge and series mode. Turn them back on when you play dark notes since dark notes are all about killing enemies instead of getting high scores. That's the way you're supposed to experience both sides.
Touch controls are still read at 60 fps apparently, even if the video is 30fps, so it shouldn't interfere much with gameplay.
This is my approach as well. Thankfully they implemented a preset, probably realizing that people would be frequently taking their crap on/off.
The system more or less works, even though it's a little dumb.
Still feels sluggish. =\
Thats not blasphemy, its truth. Birth of God and Jenova would have also been great, or special BMS scenarios where you have to fight classic multi-tier bosses in SD form.
Also wish Sabin and/or Cyan were included in the roster.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I would have thought Celes and Tifa would have been shoe-ins.
Series is much more fun at least on Expert I find.
The Elite
BOSS
Yeah, are there no playable versions of the opening and ending themes? :/
That would have worked great as a FMS.
It absolutely does. All my scores are terrible on EMS because of how sluggish and laggy that shit is.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Are there any arranged versions of tracks that become playable as opposed to the original game tracks? I hear arranged tracks on the menu screens.
If you unlock all the expert songs in challenge I believe it unlocks expert story mode
Wired All Wrong
Member
Yeah, some EMS songs feel sluggish especially in the beginning of the track. I'm pretty used to it now though.
The worst thing about EMS is that the track isn't set at a consistent speed. I hate when you've got a good rhythm going then you get to a hold note that just takes off in speed compared to what you've been playing. Same with the track slowing down. That's only really a problem the first few times you play a song though. Once you know the song well enough it should be easy to get used to.
It really would have. Those crazy "bass" notes would have the green line going up and down like crazy.
Whoa, really, must've missed that. Need to go back to Series and check!
Finally got this game! I went through 8! different stores and none off them had it(Some stores don't get this game, ever). I travelled 32 km from city to city to find it. Lucky me, I could grab the last copy in a gameshop.
Played some songs on the lowest difficulty, which is alright. This game will get great when the difficulty ramps up! Can't wait.
Played some songs on the lowest difficulty, which is alright. This game will get great when the difficulty ramps up! Can't wait.
Robin64
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Just beating the 3 songs on Expert or Ultimate in Challenge mode unlocks that difficulty for that game in Series mode.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Yeah, clearing all the Expert tracks within a game in Challenge unlocks the Expert version of that game in Series - the game gives you a little message even stating it's unlocked when you finish the last track in that game series. Same with Ultimate, so you can have Expert and Ultimate series.
Ah, so you have to beat them on Expert as well? That explains it. Have only done a sparse few of those so far.
Excellent.
RPGCrazied
Member
Not a deal breaker, but does this have online versus?
Wired All Wrong
Member
No online unfortunately. Really wish the game had online leaderboards at least. Would love to try to best the scores of people on GAF.
You choose a Dark Note, character, and rather than playing all four, every participant plays one character. HP is shared, so if one dies, you all die.
Really wish it wasn't just local. No one in my area seems to have a 3DS. I need to go to a demo 3DS in the store to get Streetpass hits. foreveralone.jpg
Nocturnowl
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Well i've done the main series mode, it was enjoyable.
I did a few dark notes previously but now with the series out of the way i'm made to return to the one i'm stuck on "Battle to the Death" which is absolutely ri-goddamn-diculous, those accursed arrow markers, they are sending me to my death!
I'm not a fan of the way the other songs are hidden, if I understand correctly you either stumble across them by chance in dark notes or grind them out with the Rhythmia, that's a bit lame if so.
I did a few dark notes previously but now with the series out of the way i'm made to return to the one i'm stuck on "Battle to the Death" which is absolutely ri-goddamn-diculous, those accursed arrow markers, they are sending me to my death!
I'm not a fan of the way the other songs are hidden, if I understand correctly you either stumble across them by chance in dark notes or grind them out with the Rhythmia, that's a bit lame if so.
The Broken Ska Record
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I finished playing each series in Basic last night. 'Twas fun, but I kinda wish there were more songs to play right away, or at least slowly unlocked. The Dark Note I'm currently on is pretty difficult for me. At least the second song. D:
TheProphet
Banned
Someone on Gamespot posted this image:
Real or not, time will tell, but getting DLC songs and DLC characters as well would be fantastic!
Leon, Vincent Valentine, Cid Raines, Rinoa Heartily, Auron... I'd buy that for a dollar.
its actually gamefaqs, but man i hope they release villains as well.
come on Garland!
Someone on Gamespot posted this image:
Real or not, time will tell, but getting DLC songs and DLC characters as well would be fantastic!
Leon, Vincent Valentine, Cid Raines, Rinoa Heartily, Auron... I'd buy that for a dollar.
fuck yeah gimme auron!
Just take it everywhere you go, you'll be surprised where you get hits. Just the other day I got a hit from someone by leaving my 3DS in the car when I went grocery shopping.
Now getting a hit from someone with a specific game? That is a challenge.
EDIT: I'd like to see Barrett, Cid Highwind, Sabin, Cyan, Auron, Steiner, Galuf, Tellah, and Sazh. Balthier would have been on the list, but I see he's already coming...so i'll say Basch or Fran. Aldo from XI would be cool.
Cjdamon042
Member
Just unlocked Blinded By Light...man that song is a lot of fun! Love it!
It's a problem I live in a small town. For work I often go to bigger cities and then I do get streetpass hits from actual 3DS owners, but never more than 1 or 2 each time.
Oh well I can always bug the game store owner into bringing his 3DS.
Same here! I'm glad it doesn't take long to unlock it, it's such a blast to play.
Hispanicguy
Member
I have 4 characters at level 99 now. May switch them out with 4 fresh characters.
I got lucky and was able to get another one of those items that increases the EXP you get after a battle, which I'll be using on my fresh characters.
Edit: Used the item on 4, level 1 people...Perfect Chained an Ultimate Score, and they all gained about 13 levels.
Recorded 2 videos:
(One-Winged Angel Ultimate Score Perfect Chain/11 greats)
http://youtu.be/CrxR8en1bS0?hd=1
(Dark Note: No.91 Mv.83 Waltz "This Tyrant's Castle.")
http://youtu.be/iDxlzGzsKDo?hd=1
Damn those spinning arrow notes! lol. But I enjoy the added challenge.
I'm trying to find the best way to record gameplay. So sorry if the videos don't look amazing. Decided to also connect my 3DS to a speaker. So awesome.
If you have any requests for videos, I'll try my best to record it.
I live in NYC..I need to go walk around and see if I get any Streetpasses. NYC is big enough...SOMEONE out there must have the game lol.
I got lucky and was able to get another one of those items that increases the EXP you get after a battle, which I'll be using on my fresh characters.
Edit: Used the item on 4, level 1 people...Perfect Chained an Ultimate Score, and they all gained about 13 levels.
Recorded 2 videos:
(One-Winged Angel Ultimate Score Perfect Chain/11 greats)
http://youtu.be/CrxR8en1bS0?hd=1
(Dark Note: No.91 Mv.83 Waltz "This Tyrant's Castle.")
http://youtu.be/iDxlzGzsKDo?hd=1
Damn those spinning arrow notes! lol. But I enjoy the added challenge.
I'm trying to find the best way to record gameplay. So sorry if the videos don't look amazing. Decided to also connect my 3DS to a speaker. So awesome.
If you have any requests for videos, I'll try my best to record it.
I live in NYC..I need to go walk around and see if I get any Streetpasses. NYC is big enough...SOMEONE out there must have the game lol.
Nah. I really broke down the first time I played Suteki da ne.
creid
Member
Streetpass NYC is doing an event for this game tomorrow: http://streetpassnyc.blogspot.com/2012/07/feel-theatrhythm-final-fantasy-25th.html
This might break the barrier for you. I dont like rhythm games that much, or at least i'm not a huge fan (only really liked Gitaroo man, but thats because it was pretty off beat/had a cool soundtrack and premise), but if you like FF music in the least bit, i'd give it a shot.
StarCreator
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The display framerate is an order of magnitude more important to gameplay than the input polling rate. In fact, the vast majority of music games determine their note judgements based on the displayed video frame.