The most fun I’ve had with a rhythm game

Arcaea is absolutely worth the money I’ve spent on it. Most songs have a play style that feels completely separate from the others. Levels can be incredibly difficult, but always seem to be doable. Even when they are ridiculous, the music is good enough to keep you coming back for more (I’d go as far as to say that the best music goes with the hardest songs). The game updates fairly regularly, and adds free songs, in addition to packs that you can pay for. Unfortunately, none of the free songs come close to the level of difficulty presented in the paid songs. The 3D space allows for really beautiful level design, and this translates into the song feeling amazing to play. Playing on a tablet makes the game easier, but playing on a smaller screen is still possible, even on difficult levels. In terms of improvement, I would really like to see an option to have arcs fade out instead of turn red when you mess up, like before the most recent patch. The bright red can be very distracting on more difficult levels and cause you to lose more notes. I would also like to see a way to restart levels faster, either through an option to require only 1 tap to pause, or even through a partner that has a skill that instantly restarts the level if you miss a note (for when you’re trying to full recall something). Finally, I want to see the story and characters developed more. My favorite level so far is Sheriruth. Keep up the good work!!

This is just what I want

I love this game so much!!! I want to master this game, so I am playing in Past, Present and Future. I know it’s hard for starters, but after I played this for literally 24 hours, I managed to master the Past and the Present. But if you want the truth.... I freaking hate Dandelion 😡😂 I played it so many times, but always end up with 1 or 2 far. 😂 I guess it’s because I played too much Present and became used to very fast and many notes. The art is also very beautiful. But what I hate the most is that the other Music Maps are not free and you have to pay the real money 💵 But I’m not going to underrate this game because of this, because there still are many other music to play. I personally think that you should make the ‘memories’ obtainable too. Like you can get them through the World Map, or by watching videos, or something like that. You know what?..... when I grow up a little, I’m gonna work in your studio and help you to invent many interesting games. 😂 Believe me I will be a big help. I know 5 languages, know how to draw beautifully and have many ideas for games that’s gonna help you. 😂 I’m serious 🤨🧐👍 By the way, keep up the good work.

Ipad use recommended.

Now I would not consider myself as one of those master of Rhythm Games but I play a lot of Cytus, Deemo, and Voez (All Rayark) and I get many of Full Combos, Masters on songs, ect. But this is not a game you can get those with on a small screen. Now I have an Iphone 7+ and even that is not big enough (and no I have average sized fingers). In general I love the game. Unlike most, keeps you playing to earn songs though there are only 20 you can unlock without real money (an extra 6 if I remember with the DLC songs). However this game does have it’s issues. The ‘Advanced’ Settings has it to where you can adjust the Offset of the notes. It is determined by increments of five while in the ‘Basic’ settings the Note Speed can be adjusted to all numbers and even down to one tenth if needed. I’m trying to play this game with Air Pods but with the ‘Advanced’ setting set to where it will tell you if you’re on early or late seems to always be a bit off. I hope you can manage to adjust it to a smaller degree in the future but otherwise don’t use any sort of bluetooth headphones I suppose. tl;dr I’ll give it a flat Four Stars. A lot of Rhythm Games are easier on a bigger screen but this one can handicap you to the point where it’s unplayable if you have a small screen. And of course, it’s hard to get it right in terms of the right calibration but precision is what rhythm games are all about. Try and makes it as accurate as possible if you can.

Please add this

Honestly one of the greatest rhythm games I've ever played, the paywall could be outlandish but its far from unreasonable. If your new and you don't pike the paywall, putting only 5$ into the game and buying a pack that has a diff 11, could literally keep you occupied for months until you get a pm full score on it. If you spend money on a rhythm game to play the chart once, and just ignore it for the rest of the time, your loosing months of enjoyment. And if you really sink enough gameplay in, it wouldn't even matter what device you play on (I use a iPhone7 thumb play) I couldn't find complaints if i tried, except for the world lvl 18-30 grind. Again since I use a smaller device, when I unlock and use a partner, you pretty much only see the face. Like the new CHUNITHM partners from a while back, you cant even see awakened Isabelles gun, or seeles sword. All around I doubt you'll see and add this, but it would be cool if there was an art scale factor. Smaller devices can make art more visible on the stage clear section, and larger devices like ipads, could use it if they wanted to zoom in and have less detail etc.

Love this game + A Request, IPHONE XR BUG!!!

This game is absolutely amazing. Can’t stop playing if I had to be honest. Although you do have to pay for songs, you can unlock quite a few of them for free through the world mode. I was wondering if you guys could make a song pack that had the song 2 Min Fighters (the SDVX version) in it. When playing this game, I think of songs that would be good if they were mapped and released in the game. This song is one of them. PLS 😓 Edit - there is a bug with the IPhone XR that makes certain taps not register what so ever. You can experience this on the IPhone XR if you play a map with a holding sky note and tap note underneath the sky note, the tap note won’t register at all. I’ve tried adjusting my offset, looking at my fingers while pressing, playing with a different play style other than thumbs and the results are still the same. Sometimes you can even see that it’s not registering the press by doing the same presses when there are no notes as when you press the screen, the spot you press highlights but if it doesn’t highlight its not registering which with this certain press it doesn’t highlight. This is disappointing because the game is almost unplayable if I want to play for combo or fcs. 😓

Honestly one of the best mobile games I’ve ever played

I downloaded this game because I was looking for a decent rhythm game... and I was pleasantly surprised at the execution of this game. For one, I was expecting to have paid some money to get access to the majority of the content, since this is a free game after all. However, there is so much accessible to you for free that in my first 3 weeks of consistently playing this game I have had barely encountered any pay walls. There aren’t even any ads within the game itself. I really admire the developers’ approach to monetization and I will probably be buying some song packs in the near future just to support this awesome game. Next, the actual gameplay feels so smooth and the menus and loading screens are polished to an elegant, easy to use app. Finally, the music selection, though not varied in genre, perfectly matches with the overall aesthetic of the game itself and really contributes to the experience that is Arcaea. I highly recommend this game for anyone looking for an excellent mobile rhythm game.

Why is it all pay to play???

I got this game yesterday because I wanted to try a rhythm game (obviously). At first, it was going good, you get a tutorial and you get to try the some songs out as well as playing the first part of the story. Here’s the thing though, you have to pay to continue on the story with these things called memories. With the memories you have to pay for packs which also help you unlock more songs. So the only free songs you get are the ones on the Arcaea main story pack, sometimes you have to pay fragments to unlock them (you get fragments by playing through songs). On world mode you’d start to think it gets better, but then you realize that there’s these things called energy with goes down each time you play a song. Once you’re out of energy, you’re can’t go on in world mode and have to wait 5 hours I think before it refills OR you can use ‘MeMoRiEs’ to get your energy back right away. Yeah so if you want to do any of the side quests, pay. Unlock new songs? Pay. Those are basically the two main things of the game. You should have just made the game be purchased with money instead of allowing us, the community, to just download it for free. I would have never gotten this game had I known I would have to spend money.

Bemani Expert opinion

Let me preface this review by saying that I am easily more well versed in rhythm games than any other person here. I have achieved chuuden on IIDX, played DDR,s hardest challenge songs, and am able to pick up easy crap like SDVX and Jubeat VERY easily, playing 20’s on SDVX within a month, 10’s on Jubeat on first day. Now that we have established I’m better than anyone here let’s get to the review The game is a SDVX / kshoot clone but it does it better than both those games. The game actually has timing windows unlike SDVX where there is only critical, miss or near. This game actually tells you if you are late or slow, and the controls are way more suited towards this type of interface. If you are familiar with IIDX terminology, I’m able to TAKA S this game very easily with my experience, thumbs easily cover all 4 bottom keys even on hard stuff, saving indexes for the your other notes. Great game especially if you blow a fat load and only play osu! Or something sad like that, give it a try it’s better than most trash nowadays.

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