Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line (Switch & PS4 - 16th Feb 2023)

[Glen-i]

11 hours ago, darksnowman said:

Pretty sure they've said you can upgrade the physical to the deluxe...?

This is true. The Digital Deluxe upgrade is on the eShop.

[Glen-i]

Holy hell! I may have spent the last 7 hours playing and I've only just gotten to FF 9. (Going by release order, so Mystic Quest and Tactics is done, but I skipped over the 7 spin-offs and remake)

Someone help me!

Not keen on the game reverting to the short version of Dancing Mad and One-Winged Angel though. That sucks.

[Glen-i]

21 hours ago, Glen-i said:

Not keen on the game reverting to the short version of Dancing Mad and One-Winged Angel though. That sucks.

Great, the Advent Children version of One Winged Angel is still it's massive 6 minute version. So now I'm completely flummoxed on why everything else seems to have been shortened to 2 minutes.

I'm up to Dissidia now (past the 2005 mark).

Wonderful, wonderful game.

[martinist]

Currently working through Final Fantasy 7 remake. Went through the series in order except for the first one where they locked you to the demo series So I started with Final Fantasy 2 then did 1. Got 2 "All Critical" so far and most of the songs are perfeect chains. Doing it all on the basic score then moving up to Expert when they're done.

Been failing most of the quests because I switch out to the new characters every time i start a series so they're underleveled. I'll go back once I unlock endless mode at the end and work my way through the failed quests with a stronger party.

[Glen-i]

29 minutes ago, martinist said:

Been failing most of the quests because I switch out to the new characters every time i start a series so they're underleveled. I'll go back once I unlock endless mode at the end and work my way through the failed quests with a stronger party.

Great minds, I've been doing the same. Just feels right. Although, I might be going overkill, because I only use characters that match the game they're from. Which led to the awkward realisation that I couldn't kill anything in Mystic Quest because I only had Benjamin in the party for those songs.

[martinist]

First one down. Got one more quest ot do in X-2 and that will be done too.

[Glen-i]

The Live A Live songs are available now for those who sold their souls to Square.

[darksnowman]

2 hours ago, Glen-i said:

The Live A Live songs are available now for those who sold their souls to Square.

Didn't you have to pay them to take yours?  

[Glen-i]

1 hour ago, darksnowman said:

Didn't you have to pay them to take yours?  

How do you think I know?

If I had to choose 4 songs from Live A Live, I probably would've gone with the ones they chose here. Of course, I would've preferred it if they all were the HD-2D versions, but eh...

4 isn't enough though. I can think of three more that should be here.

[Glen-i]

World Ends With You songs are now out.

3 from the first game, 3 from the sequel.

I recognise the final boss music of NEO from the title and that is a very fine choice!

EDIT: It's the full version! Even better! There is one song that I probably would've swapped in NEO. It's not bad, but that game has better options.

Good pack.

DOUBLE EDIT: OK, no. I do have some misgivings with "Calling". It's half the length then it was in Curtain Call and it doesn't have the Tokyo backdrop. Which is just wrong.

It's made me realise that all the field music in DLC songs don't have unique backgrounds. It wasn't as noticeable with Live A Live and Romancing Saga, but it's very noticeable here.

Edited March 16 by Glen-i

[Glen-i]

First Nier pack is out now.

Weirdly enough, all 5 songs are from Automata. That caught me off guard. There's 2 Nier packs though, so I imagine songs from the first game will happen then.

I'm glad Emil's shop is in there, but all in all, I think the songs aren't as good as the Nier songs from Curtain Call.

[Glen-i]

Second SaGa pack is out now. Skipping over Romancing SaGa 2 and 3 to give us 4 songs from SaGa Frontier, 2 from SaGa Frontier 2, and 1 song each from Unlimited SaGa, and SaGa SCARLET GRACE: AMBITIONS.

It's a very solid pack, (Then again, it's SaGa music) there's 7 songs that weren't in Curtain Call. "T260G's Last Battle" has a very cool developing background.

"Battle #5" is proper good though, that's my favourite here.

Edited April 13 by Glen-i

[martinist]

Need to get back into this. I was practicly playing it everyday before I migrated over the the Yakuza games.

Got the ultimate edition so all the songs should already be downloaded. I'll take a look later tongiht when i have time.

[Glen-i]

The second Nier pack is available now. Focusing on the first game, the three Nier songs from Curtain Call return, along with two new songs, and one from Nier Replicant.

After "Calling" got it's length cut in half, I was concerned that "Shadowlord" would get the same treatment, but nope! It's still over 4 minutes long, and it is glorious! The long slow section before the hectic fourth minute makes for a really great rhythm game track!

The new songs are solid too. A very good pack here.

Edited April 27 by Glen-i

[Glen-i]

The first Chrono Pack is available now. 6 songs from Chrono Trigger, and 1 from Chrono Cross.

The majority of these were in Curtain Call, except for "Wings That Cross Time". And anything Chrono Cross is new to Theatrhythm.

There's still a few songs from Chrono Trigger missing that were in Curtain Call, but there's a second pack in the future, so we'll likely fill out the rest then.

Anyway, you don't need me to tell you this is a good pack. It's freaking Chrono Trigger!

Edited May 18 by Glen-i

[Glen-i]

It begins...

This song has a Supreme version too, and that terrifies me. Might have to resort to the old "8-Bit Theater" strategy here.