[TheProphet]

DLC should be up in about 10 minutes.

I thought it only updates at 9am.

[Azuardo]

When do they announce the Europe DLC songs? They're out tomorrow and no mention.

[Regulus Tera]

This is the Final Battle - FFIII
Battle Theme - FFX
The Darkness of Eternity - FFIX
The Dalmasca Eastersand - FFXII (HOLY FUCK SHIT YES I LOVE THAT SONG)

[Kagari]

I thought it only updates at 9am.

Updates at 3AM EST for North America.

And they're up. FFX Battle theme get.

[Regulus Tera]

This is the first time I listen to the original rendition of the last boss music from FFIII and this is miles better than whatever the shit the Black Mages did for their third album. Also light years better than the Dissidia remix.

Suck a Moogle pom pom, Gravijah.

[Shadow780]

Everyday I'm staring at this game shrink wrapped hoping for a better XL color, damn you Nintendo.

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Oh yes. I've been waiting for this week of DLC. I love the crap out of these songs (except Dalmasca Estersand, it's just all right... I couldn't stand FF XII though)!

[linko9]

FFIII final boss is very enjoyable, I got Dalmasca Estersand too. Can't wait for the FFV stuff in the coming weeks.

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Some assorted thoughts:

"The Darkness of Eternity" is insanely fun on Ultimate, though I'll never get used to having the music fade out right in the middle of a song. It's also just nice to have more FF IX music to play! I can't wait for next week, as FF IX's "Battle 2" is my favorite boss theme in the entire series.

I never played the NES version of FF III because I never liked the NES versions of FF I and II enough to bother checking it out, but damn if Uematsu didn't do some really magical shit with the NES's sound chip in FF III's soundtrack. FF III's music uses some really neat effects and has an incredibly distinct quality to it that I've not not heard in any other NES soundtracks. The original version of "This is the Final Battle" is worlds better than any remix of the song that I've ever heard, whether it's the Black Mages version, the Dissidia remix, or any fan remix.

"The Dalmasca Estersand" is a lot duller than I remember. It's pretty boring to play too, even on Ultimate, and it doesn't feel like it's a good fit for Theatrhythm's gameplay. Oh well, they can't all be winners!

FF X's regular battle theme is also really fun, both on Expert and Ultimate. Like with FF IX, it's also just nice to have more FF X battle music -- "Fight with Seymour" shouldn't have been the standard BMS, especially not with the crappy cut of it they used for Theatrhythm (they left out the best parts of the song, especially the intro!). I cannot wait for FF X's final battle theme in a couple weeks!

[EvilRedEye]

When do they announce the Europe DLC songs? They're out tomorrow and no mention.

They weren't included with the eShop updates. Perhaps it's because they seem to be released the day after.

[Bururian]

Still waiting for my Final Fantasy songs that aren't X, XI, XII, or XIII.

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Still waiting for my Final Fantasy songs that aren't X, XI, XII, or XIII.

They just released one song each from FF III and FF IX today.

And the coming weeks will all have songs from FF V and FF IX.

So there you go.

[Skiesofwonder]

Has Movement in Green ( FFX ) been released yet?

Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with the DLC lately.

[Bururian]

They just released one song each from FF III and FF IX today. And the coming weeks will all have songs from FF V and FF IX. So there you go.

First FF9 song we've seen, and yeah, they release an older one every week, but it's mostly been FFX and up songs for most of the weekly releases.

I'm just trying to say that it's really unbalanced in my opinion. (And that I want more older songs)

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Has Movement in Green ( FFX ) been released yet? Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with the DLC lately.

Yes, it was released in the U.S. and Europe last week. It's pretty tough on Ultimate!

First FF9 song we've seen, and yeah, they release an older one every week, but it's mostly been FFX and up songs for most of the weekly releases. I'm just trying to say that it's really unbalanced in my opinion. (And that I want more older songs)

You're right, the DLC releases so far have definitely been balanced in favor of FFs X-XIII. Thankfully, I'm a big fan of all of those soundtracks except for XII, but I love the I-IX soundtracks just as much, so I too would like to see more DLC songs from those games.

I'm particularly appalled at the lack of FF VIII songs; to date, there are only four FF VIII songs available between DLC and what's in the game. FF IX hasn't gotten nearly enough love either, but at least there are a bunch of new IX songs coming this month!

[Bururian]

Yes, it was released in the U.S. and Europe last week. It's pretty tough on Ultimate! You're right, the DLC releases so far have definitely been balanced in favor of FFs X-XIII. Thankfully, I'm a big fan of all of those soundtracks except for XII, but I love the I-IX soundtracks just as much, so I too would like to see more DLC songs from those games. I'm particularly appalled at the lack of FF VIII songs; to date, there are only four FF VIII songs available between DLC and what's in the game. FF IX hasn't gotten nearly enough love either, but at least there are a bunch of new IX songs coming this month!

The music is by no means bad, I've still bought all the DLC so far, $28 and counting, and play all of it, but when I see that Europe gets awesome stuff like Sunken Shrine and Matoya's Cave, it makes my heart a little sad. We will get it eventually, but my impatience kicks in, and I want it now. Not later.

[MaverickHunterAsh]

The music is by no means bad, I've still bought all the DLC so far, $28 and counting, and play all of it, but when I see that Europe gets awesome stuff like Sunken Shrine and Matoya's Cave, it makes my heart a little sad. We will get it eventually, but my impatience kicks in, and I want it now. Not later.

I hear you. Personally I'm really pining for FF IV's "Battle 2," FF VIII's "Force Your Way," and FF V's "The Decisive Battle," the former two of which aren't even on the U.S. schedule yet and the latter of which isn't coming until the end of this month.

At least I get FF IX's "Battle 2" next week, which is pretty much my favorite boss theme in the whole series!

[Gravijah]

after 12-13 hours with T:FF, i think i am done. it's just not a very enjoyable rhythm game.

This is the first time I listen to the original rendition of the last boss music from FFIII and this is miles better than whatever the shit the Black Mages did for their third album. Also light years better than the Dissidia remix. Suck a Moogle pom pom, Gravijah.

DS version is probably the best. but i also prefer the original to the Dissida & Black Mages versions.

Boss Battle theme is a different story and the Dissidia version is best.

[Bururian]

I hear you. Personally I'm really pining for FF IV's "Battle 2," FF VIII's "Force Your Way," and FF V's "The Decisive Battle," the former two of which aren't even on the U.S. schedule yet and the latter of which isn't coming until the end of this month. At least I get FF IX's "Battle 2" next week, which is pretty much my favorite boss theme in the whole series!

My two favorite Battle themes happen to come from FFVIII, "The Man with the Machine Gun" which we already have, and "Force your Way" which has been released in Japan, so we'll eventually get it, and I want to play it pretty badly.

[Javier]

The DLC menu definitely needs a music preview. It's hard to know what to buy when I don't know most of these songs.

FFIV Battle 2 is all I really want, too bad we won't get it until next month at the very least.

Also, one more character unlock: Sephirot!

Only Navy Shards to go!

[Zeer0id]

What's up with yurop dlc? None this week?

[Zerokku]

The DLC menu definitely needs a music preview. It's hard to know what to buy when I don't know most of these songs.

Been relying on Youtube myself :P

[Azuardo]

What's up with yurop dlc? None this week?

I can work out what it will be based on the last few weeks, but haven't seen any official announcements so I don't wanna start spurting what it is/could be. Annoying!

[Kagari]

Finally finished my review: http://www.rpgsite.net/reviews/398-t...fantasy-review

[Conrad Link]

My ban on playing 3DS games till the XL comes out here is killing me lol (under 2 weeks to go!), I wanna play. :(

If a FFXI song gets released this week in PAL I'ma sneak some gametime.

[speedpop]

Only unlocked Blinded by Light (FF13) earlier today and it's probably my favourite BMS to play through. Hamauzu knocked the typical battle theme out of the park with that tune.

A good review Kagari. My only complaint would be the amount of time it's going to take to unlock everything, but I don't mind too much as long as I play it here and there.

My ban on playing 3DS games till the XL comes out here is killing me lol (under 2 weeks to go!), I wanna play. :( If a FFXI song gets released this week in PAL I'ma sneak some gametime.

I'm hoping for Gustaberg to come sooner rather than later :P

[lazybones18]

Here's the EU DLC this week:

(BMS) FFIV - Battle 2 (BMS) FFXI - Battle Theme (BMS) FFXII - Esper Battle (FMS) FFXIII - March of the Dreadnoughts

[Bururian]

Finally finished my review: http://www.rpgsite.net/reviews/398-t...fantasy-review

Nice review, I really liked reading it. It was very concise, and I personally agreed with everything you had issues with in the game too.

[Conrad Link]

Yay FFXI dlc!

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Here's the EU DLC this week:

Gah, FF IV's Battle 2 -- one of my most anticipated songs! Looks like we'll have to wait until September for that here in the US, as the rest of this month's US DLC is dedicated to FF V, IX, X, and XII...

[rpmurphy]

After taking a hiatus for other games, my baseline skill for the game I think has been raised. I managed to get through FFII battle on Ultimate on the first try. I also got my first you-know-what notes in the Chaos shrine last night, and boy was that annoying.

When will NA get Matoya's Cave? :<

[Wichu]

Just beat Battle With The Four Fiends on Ultimate for the first time. Feels good, man. I can't imagine ever being able to All Critical it though. I think a Perfect Chain is within the realm of possibility, though (only got five Bad/Misses).

Also did Saber's Edge right before. The fiddly bits are, well, fiddly.

EDIT: Everything Stoic for the glorious, glorious S ranks. I'm making this harder for myself than I have to, aren't I?

[EvilRedEye]

I think they're now announcing the European Theatrhythm DLC with the eShop listings for the week AFTER it gets released, which is why the DLC wasn't mentioned last week. What a pain.

[rpmurphy]

Just beat Battle With The Four Fiends on Ultimate for the first time. Feels good, man. I can't imagine ever being able to All Critical it though. I think a Perfect Chain is within the realm of possibility, though (only got five Bad/Misses). Also did Saber's Edge right before. The fiddly bits are, well, fiddly. EDIT: Everything Stoic for the glorious, glorious S ranks. I'm making this harder for myself than I have to, aren't I?

I'm working on SS perfect chaining everything + total criticals. ahahaha... ha...

[Hansel?]

Sorry if it's been asked before ,but I'm hoping someone can help me out here as I haven't been able to find much about Scarlet Shards. Pretty sure I read that Scarlets are only obtained through Dark Notes within No.'s 1-25.

Does anyone know of any easier way to figure out the how to get them?

It's all I have left, and after playing all my 1-25 dark notes over and over and over again (trying 2nd bosses and 3rd bosses and so on)... nothing.

[ActStriker]

Yeah, scarlet shards are only in No. 1- 25. Gotta just grind them out and hope you get a note that drops that shard. Use characters with Libra to find out faster.

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Damn it. A Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest song just played on my iTunes playlist, and now I'm reminded of how many songs from that amazing soundtrack NEED to be in Theatrhythm...

[lazybones18]

The game finally, FINALLY, gives me the WoL Collectacard!

EDIT: After over 100hrs of play time, I have finally got Chaos in a Dark Note and defeated him! And got that "defeat all enemies" trophy as well. Now I just need to get three more characters to Level 99 and I can finally give this game a much needed break

EDIT 2: Who's best suited for Level 5 Flare?

[zohar]

Who's best suited for Level 5 Flare?

Whoever doesn't have offensive skills but you still want to use. Cid (with Libra lv3) comes to mind.

[Kagari]

New songs should be up.

1. “Challenge” (FINAL FANTASY X)
2. “Desperate Fight” (FINAL FANTASY XII)
3. “Battle 2” (FINAL FANTASY IX)
4. “The Final Battle” (FINAL FANTASY V)

[lazybones18]

Already downloaded them, but it might be a while before I try the new songs out since I'm trying to farm for Moruru's Charms in the Chaos Shrine

Just need to platinum WoL and Locke cards

[MaverickHunterAsh]

So excited to play FF IX's "Battle 2" -- it's my favorite boss theme in the entire series. I've been anticipating its DLC release for a long time!

EDIT: Hmm... not the best week of DLC, as it turns out. Desperate Fight and Challenge are both deliriously boring (but I never really liked those songs to begin with), The Final Battle is just okay, and Battle 2, while it's an *amazing* song and surprisingly tough on Ultimate (for that matter, so is The Final Battle), it's kind of... obnoxious in that it has a bunch of those super short hold-swipes on Ultimate, which kind of takes away from it.

In the end, though, I'd say that Battle 2 is now the second-hardest Ultimate Score in the game, behind A Contest of Aeons (FF X). Of course, that'll all change when Force Your Way comes our way, presumably next month. :P

[Zeer0id]

Hey guys, I am probably going to stop updating the OP with DLC and youtube links at the end of the month, but if someone else wants to take the reins I can put a link to your post in the DLC section.

[linko9]

FFV's final battle is real fun to play. Great song. I keep buying all the XII DLC, because I like the game so much, and then I remember that its music is terrible for a rhythm game :(

[Apdiddy]

I've spent quite a bit of time with this (over 15 hours!), but I sorta find Expert to be really badly balanced. The FMS/EMS for all the songs are nice, difficult, but doable. The BMS is next to impossible for me -- half the time I can't even react in time to the upcoming cues before I get a 'bad' or a 'miss.'

I did get an 'A' score on Final Fantasy battle theme on Expert though, but the rest are just...bad.

I'm surprised that "Eyes On Me," "Kiss Me Goodbye," or "My Hands" aren't DLC songs though....I guess S-E doesn't want to pay for the licensing to the singers too.

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Hey guys, I am probably going to stop updating the OP with DLC and youtube links at the end of the month, but if someone else wants to take the reins I can put a link to your post in the DLC section.

I'm still really into this game, so I'll continue to post about the DLC every week. Posting YouTube links wouldn't be a problem.

I think Kagari probably will, too. She beat me to the punch this week...

[BooJoh]

Is Japan still getting DLC for this game?

Just kind of wondering what the odds are of us getting any songs that they haven't yet. One in particular that I'd like to see is "Pirates Ahoy" from FFV. That's been one of my favorites ever since I heard the Chocobo Racing version.

[lazybones18]

Is Japan still getting DLC for this game? Just kind of wondering what the odds are of us getting any songs that they haven't yet. One in particular that I'd like to see is "Pirates Ahoy" from FFV. That's been one of my favorites ever since I heard the Chocobo Racing version.

Japan hasn't gotten DLC for the past couple of weeks, so it looks to be done there. But you never know

[Netto-kun]

European DLC for this week should be:

1. Challenge (Final Fantasy X) - BMS
2. Ragnarok (Final Fantasy XI) - BMS
3. Crystal Cave (Final Fantasy III) - FMS
4. The Royal City of Rabanastre/Town Ward Upper Stratum (Final Fantasy XII) - FMS

[lazybones18]

*tries Battle 2 (FFIX) Ultimate*

Yeah.....fuck that