Needs improvements on gameplay – TAPSONIC TOP - Music Game Review

Visually the game looks really good. First impression of this game was it probably being on an arcade machine with its visuals. As usual I skipped the tutorial (dialogue basically) since I’ve played quite a few rhythm games already. Even the tutorial looked visually pleasing and simple to do. Once I was done with the tutorial I headed into solo play to see how the gameplay is on harder songs. I passed the third difficulty on the Tok Tok song on first attempt to unlock the 4th difficulty. Before I continue I choose this song for the reason of it being really rhythmically from listening to it. Which it did show on the beatmap with it having all the notes mix in matching the song. For the first few hundred notes I didn’t ran into any issues keeping my full combo, but then four flick notes popped up and 2 zigzag notes together popped up right behind them. I hit the first three flick notes just fine, but when I went for the fourth one the game registered the nearest zigzag note instead of the flick making me miss both of them. At first I told myself I just missed it and did a bad flick. So I continued playing the song which I haven’t passed yet. In my attempts to pass it the flick note problem kept on happening. I brushed it off and decided to see if the game will have bad level difficulty assignments to songs. So I decided to start from the top left of the song list and right away I ran into a higher 4th difficulty level called comet highteen or something along those lines (which was one level higher than the tic tok song being lvl 9.) Went in and on my first attempt I almost managed to full combo it but I chocked on one note leaving me with a sad feeling on the result screen but that wasn’t the worst part of it. During the first attempt I was surprise seeing the hold note actually go off it’s note vertical area thing into the other ones that weren’t active, which really pained me visually. The thing that really killed me the most that this one is a lvl. 9 song while the other one is a lvl. 8 song. I can’t pass the level 8 one but I almost managed to full combo the level 9 one on my first attempt. Overall I won’t recommend this game for first time rhythm game players, but if you played plenty already I do recommend installing this and look at them visuals.
Review by TeTsInGa on TAPSONIC TOP - Music Game.