The game also has a lot of polish: “repeat” songs are now longer, arranged a little differently, or just plain sound better than they used to. I didn’t really bother with card buffing, although I imagine it will be more important as I continue to trek through longer, more difficult quests. The catch is that cards are now a finite resource that you must grind to collect copies of. The big new feature here, though, is that Collect-a-Cards can be equipped by individual characters as buffs, and equipping the right combination of cards (I’m hazy on how this is determined) results in a better buff. You can also play locally or online with friends or strangers, although it’s tough to find a match.Ĭharacter customization has not changed that much, but it seems like characters level up faster. There are a number of attacks that do various things, like briefly speed up your track, make the enemies more powerful, force you to make critical taps, or hide the note type until the last second. Multiplayer has also opened up quite a bit-it takes the form of a versus mode that resembles the “boss fights” in later Guitar Hero games: by doing well in a song, you build up an attack meter that, once full, deploys a random attack on your opponent. I’m constantly unlocking characters, for example (there are a ton of them this time). I was appreciative of the fact that every quest felt worthwhile. Some of the game’s new items, like Tents and Airship Tickets, help make the longer quests more palatable. On the other hand, if you power through, you get tons of items, Collect-a-Cards, and Crystals for medium and long quests. Even the medium quests are entirely too long, but long quests are just plain tedious, and it doesn’t help that you’ll often be forced to play the same track more than once or twice during a single quest. There are short, medium, and long quests. These are always background music tracks or battle tracks-which is good, because I really hate event (cinematic) tracks.
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The main campaign, however, is “Quest Medley,” which takes you through a random assortment of songs along a series of paths (you choose which ones to take).
In Curtain Call, you can actually access the available track list at any time and play through any available song on the fly.
In the first game, the main solo “campaign” consisted of playing through the soundtracks in chronological order, which didn’t take very long considering the scope of the soundtrack, and playing through challenging “Dark Notes” to slowly unlock more characters. It now includes more than 200 songs-this includes all of the songs from the first game including its DLC, new songs from those same games, and tracks from spin-off games like Type-O, the XIII sequels, Crystal Chronicles, Dissidia, Final Fantasy Adventure, and even Advent-freakin’-Children! No love for Spirits Within, though. But that’s really all that’s stayed the same.įirst and foremost, the track list has ballooned considerably. To be clear, the core gameplay remains the same: you tap, swipe, and hold the stylus on the touch screen as notes stream from left to right along with the beat of a Final Fantasy song. Well, it’s taken two years, but a solution has emerged: Curtain Call, the sequel that’s better in just about every aspect. But I wanted more, because the track list in the first game isn’t very expansive, but I wasn’t willing to pay for DLC. I didn’t really expect to love it as much as I did, pouring dozens of hours into the game. I also like rhythm games, so I decided early on to pick up the bizarre Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy in 2012. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call already includes 221 songs NOT including the downloadable content (DLC) listed below.Despite having virtually no experience with Square-Enix’s esteemed Final Fantasy series aside from some cursory attempts at FFVII, FFVIII, and that GBA tactics game, I still knew that the franchise was touted for its soundtracks.
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