[matthwq]

That would have worked great as a FMS.

It really would have. Those crazy "bass" notes would have the green line going up and down like crazy.

[Zeer0id]

If you unlock all the expert songs in challenge I believe it unlocks expert story mode

Whoa, really, must've missed that. Need to go back to Series and check!

[Teknoman]

This also makes me want a Guitarooman 2.

[Burnburn]

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.

[Robin64]

Whoa, really, must've missed that. Need to go back to Series and check!

Just beating the 3 songs on Expert or Ultimate in Challenge mode unlocks that difficulty for that game in Series mode.

[XiaNaphryz]

Whoa, really, must've missed that. Need to go back to Series and check!

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.

[Zeer0id]

Just beating the 3 songs on Expert or Ultimate in Challenge mode unlocks that difficulty for that game in Series mode.

Ah, so you have to beat them on Expert as well? That explains it. Have only done a sparse few of those so far.

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.

Excellent.

[RPGCrazied]

Not a deal breaker, but does this have online versus?

[Wired All Wrong]

Not a deal breaker, but does this have online versus?

No online unfortunately. Really wish the game had online leaderboards at least. Would love to try to best the scores of people on GAF.

[Westraid]

Not a deal breaker, but does this have online versus?

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]

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.

[Westraid]

Someone on GameFAQs 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 Heartilly, Auron... I'd buy that for a dollar.

EDIT: Corrected links.

[The Broken Ska Record]

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]

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!

[Ashodin]

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!

[Teknoman]

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

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]

Just unlocked Blinded By Light...man that song is a lot of fun! Love it!

[Westraid]

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.

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.

Just unlocked Blinded By Light...man that song is a lot of fun! Love it!

Same here! I'm glad it doesn't take long to unlock it, it's such a blast to play.

[Bururian]

I have never been a fan of DLC, but for a rhythm game with Final Fantasy music? I've already purchased all the DLC available, and will purchase it as it comes out.

[Hispanicguy]

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.

[Respawn]

This has Barrett?

[Jucksalbe]

Am I too much of a fanboy if I got goosebumps and even a little tear in my eye during some segments?
It really feels like the perfect anniversary title, because it makes me want to play the FF games again.

[Kagari]

Balthier~ hope it's legit.

[Kagari]

Am I too much of a fanboy if I got goosebumps and even a little tear in my eye during some segments? It really feels like the perfect anniversary title, because it makes me want to play the FF games again.

Nah. I really broke down the first time I played Suteki da ne.

[creid]

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.

Streetpass NYC is doing an event for this game tomorrow: http://streetpassnyc.blogspot.com/20...tasy-25th.html

[Brandon F]

Torn.

Love FF music and especially the older games. Hate this genre of game, and could not at all get into games like Elite Beat Agents or Gitaroo man.

Unsure to buy.

[Teknoman]

Torn. Love FF music and especially the older games. Hate this genre of game, and could not at all get into games like Elite Beat Agents or Gitaroo man. Unsure to buy.

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.

[TheExodu5]

Who thought it was a good idea to make holds chime at an off-tempo beat?

[StarCreator]

Touch controls are still read at 60 fps apparently, even if the video is 30fps, so it shouldn't interfere much with gameplay.

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.

[Chairhome]

Don't know if anyone has done this, but here are LINKS to most of the DLC songs released so far in NA. The only one I couldn't find was "Fighting Fate", so I just included a link to the song. Figured this would help anyone thinking about the DLC since there are no previews in the store. Props to "Olainette" on youtube for posting most of these. Maybe we could add this to the OP?

1. “Battle Theme 1” (FINAL FANTASY II)
2. “The Final Battle” (FINAL FANTASY IV)
3. “Fighters of the Crystal” (FINAL FANTASY XI)
4. “Fighting Fate” (FINAL FANTASY XIII)
5. “In Search of Light” (FINAL FANTASY V)
6. “Cosmo Canyon” (FINAL FANTASY VII)
7. “Ride On” (FINAL FANTASY VIII)
8. “A Fleeting Dream” (FINAL FANTASY X)

[Defunkled]

Finally, my copy from Amazon has arrived! Albeit, three days after the estimated delivery date. Not sure if I should send in a complaint or not. Amazon has never been late on a delivery before so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

[matthwq]

Am I too much of a fanboy if I got goosebumps and even a little tear in my eye during some segments? It really feels like the perfect anniversary title, because it makes me want to play the FF games again.

Seriously teared up during the Aeris theme. Final Fantasy VII was the first game to make an impact on me in an emotional way, and Theatrhythm really brought some of those feelings back.

[The_Darkest_Red]

Seriously teared up during the Aeris theme. Final Fantasy VII was the first game to make an impact on me in an emotional way, and Theatrhythm really brought some of those feelings back.

Tap through the tears, man.

[ultron87]

I forgot how sad the end of FFX is!

4. “Fighting Fate” (FINAL FANTASY XIII)

Oh I totally had my FF XIII boss music titles mixed up. The one I want is Born Anew.

[laika09]

Don't know if anyone has done this, but here are LINKS to most of the DLC songs released so far in NA. The only one I couldn't find was "Fighting Fate", so I just included a link to the song. Figured this would help anyone thinking about the DLC since there are no previews in the store. Props to "Olainette" on youtube for posting most of these. Maybe we could add this to the OP? 1. “Battle Theme 1” (FINAL FANTASY II) 2. “The Final Battle” (FINAL FANTASY IV) 3. “Fighters of the Crystal” (FINAL FANTASY XI) 4. “Fighting Fate” (FINAL FANTASY XIII) 5. “In Search of Light” (FINAL FANTASY V) 6. “Cosmo Canyon” (FINAL FANTASY VII) 7. “Ride On” (FINAL FANTASY VIII) 8. “A Fleeting Dream” (FINAL FANTASY X)

Square-Enix has a list of previews on their Japanese site as well (http://www.square-enix.co.jp/t_ff/mu...musiclist_2-16). Our first DLC set is the same as the February 16th one in Japan.

[Heropon]

Mount Gulg doesn't sound like NES music to me. Why didn't they do that to more songs?

[Regulus Tera]

Balthier~ hope it's legit.

Wait, you go with Balthier and not 'Balflear' for that character but insist on calling Terra 'Tina'? What?

[Robin64]

Mount Gulg doesn't sound like NES music to me. Why didn't they do that to more songs?

It's from a remake version because the NES version wasn't long enough.

[Kagari]

Wait, you go with Balthier and not 'Balflear' for that character but insist on calling Terra 'Tina'? What?

That's just how I do.

[laika09]

It's from a remake version because the NES version wasn't long enough.

Wow, hype killed.

It's not like the FF1 overworld theme wasn't 30 seconds long too, but that didn't keep them from looping it 8 times. :|

[Regulus Tera]

That's just how I do.

You are a picky girl.

[Heropon]

I'm trying to beat many dark notes now that my characters are low level. My Bartz, Firion, Cloud, Zidane party is unstoppable and always gets a shard. I'm so proud of my boys!

[Dragonzord]

Torn. Love FF music and especially the older games. Hate this genre of game, and could not at all get into games like Elite Beat Agents or Gitaroo man. Unsure to buy.

You should buy it if you love FF music just because I bet this game will be rare in a few years.

[Kazerei]

Don't know if anyone has done this, but here are LINKS to most of the DLC songs released so far in NA. The only one I couldn't find was "Fighting Fate", so I just included a link to the song. Figured this would help anyone thinking about the DLC since there are no previews in the store. Props to "Olainette" on youtube for posting most of these. Maybe we could add this to the OP? 1. “Battle Theme 1” (FINAL FANTASY II) 2. “The Final Battle” (FINAL FANTASY IV) 3. “Fighters of the Crystal” (FINAL FANTASY XI) 4. “Fighting Fate” (FINAL FANTASY XIII) 5. “In Search of Light” (FINAL FANTASY V) 6. “Cosmo Canyon” (FINAL FANTASY VII) 7. “Ride On” (FINAL FANTASY VIII) 8. “A Fleeting Dream” (FINAL FANTASY X)

Thanks. So far I've bought Battle Theme 1 (FFII) and Ride On (FFVIII). Both songs are upbeat and really fun to play!

[Zeer0id]

Don't know if anyone has done this, but here are LINKS to most of the DLC songs released so far in NA. The only one I couldn't find was "Fighting Fate", so I just included a link to the song. Figured this would help anyone thinking about the DLC since there are no previews in the store. Props to "Olainette" on youtube for posting most of these. Maybe we could add this to the OP?

On it.

[rpmurphy]

Yay, my first SS on ultimate, although not perfect chain. :)
Battle Theme on FF though lol.

[Disguises]

Who thought it was a good idea to make holds chime at an off-tempo beat?

It's so annoying. It's made me miss a few. I'm getting used to it now though, turning the noise down to minimum sure helped too.

[Bumhead]

This game is.. incredible. Im absolutely hooked.

Really hope they introduce DLC characters, too. I would be as inclined to buy them as I am extra tracks.

[TheExodu5]

I'll definitely buy Locke.

[matthwq]

Thanks. So far I've bought Battle Theme 1 (FFII) and Ride On (FFVIII). Both songs are upbeat and really fun to play!

Those are the two songs I downloaded, too ^________^

I LOVE RIDE ON!!!