Tapsonic Bold Review (Xonah)
First I really want to know why there was little to no promotion for this game. It deserves some spotlight.
In short: Potential to be the Steam Rhythm game i've been waiting for.
--Why I Like It--
So if i were to be honest, this is my first Tapsonic, however, it's far from my first NEOWIZ game. I origin from S4 League, which borrowed half of its soundtrack from DJ Max titles, which is arguably the origin of Tapsonic. I've play DJ Max trilogy for months, even though i wasn't all that great at it. So far this game is very solid. It's an early access title, so there isn't too much to look at outside of normal music modes. Gameplay is pretty solid itself. You have 4 difficulties to choose from. Easy difficulty may as well just be scrapped from the game. But i experienced no lag at all while playing the game. But i am a little confused as to what to do about the slide notes. Sometimes i feel like my inputs aren't making it in. Perhaps it's something i just have to try getting used to. The choice in songs are pretty nice. Not too many recognizable tracks, but i saw a few tracks from the DJ MAX days.
I mention DJ Max a lot, but i'm a hundred percent sure this game is great for New-Comers as well. For all I know it could be better. I certainly do hope that song packs aren't going to cost an arm and a leg. The base game is at a very fair price in my opinion. On mobile Tapsonic, these 20 songs probably would have costed you $50. I do hope to see older fan favorites to come along, but more than that, I hope that the visuals are improved a bit. Visuals are pretty nice in this game, but you may start to feel how bland it can feel about twenty minutes in. There is ONE thing that would greatly fix that. Having the music videos in for each song play in the background. This was a key feature in previous rhythm games developed by NEOWIZ.
I really would like to see more songs and visual aspects come to the game though. That's what this game needs the most. Otherwise, it is pretty solid for a EA title.
--Personal blab--
The game may still be in EA, but without a doubt I can see myself killing a lot of time with this game.With more songs obviously coming along, this game could be a dominant rhyhtm game. I've been waiting for rhythm games to come on Steam for a very long time. I saw the great return of Fighting Games in between that time on steam. When Rhyhtm games did make a return, i was very dissapointed because they were restricted to VR games when it was truely unncessesary. Especially when there was nothing about the VR gimics that took place in the games.