Konami’s latest rhythm recreation is Tremendous Loopy Rhythm Fortress. It’s tremendous, loopy, and flips the script on what a rhythm recreation may be. However is it on beat, or is the timing off?
Discovering your self within the titular citadel, you’ll meet your host, King Ferdinand I. He’ll be your major contact throughout your keep within the citadel – regardless of it being sorta towards your will. You’ll make your method up the citadel and thru the totally different hub worlds, fixing puzzles, doing chores for the King and chatting with the residents. You’ll start within the dank depths of the basement however quickly be pitching in with a revolution within the meat dimension and busting out prisoners within the cell tower. All whereas enjoying just a few minigames, in fact.
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The minigames in Tremendous Loopy Rhythm Fortress all revolve round rhythm, however not solely. Some minigames get you simply hitting beats in time like your normal rhythm fare, however not like different video games within the style, Tremendous Loopy Rhythm Fortress may have you leaping out of the rhythm half on a moments discover the place different components of the minigame happen. This is perhaps so simple as pulling a lever throughout the room to take away an obstruction, or as convoluted as manning a cannon to coat meat-men in sauce, all earlier than leaping again on the beat. And even in case you’re not having to hop off the rhythm board, every stage nonetheless has a singular gimmick to set it other than the others. It’s a novel idea and I’m shocked I haven’t seen it elsewhere. And with the choice to play with as much as three mates sofa co-op or on-line, issues can get fairly hectic as you delegate duties and whatnot.
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The soundtrack is an enormous hodgepodge of tunes. There’s hip-hop, nation, J-pop and steel, simply to call just a few, plus just a few Konami classics thrown in, from titles like Castlevania, Dance Dance Revolution and Gradius. Plenty of the music isn’t fairly my model, however there’s sufficient selection to seek out no less than an excellent few songs you get pleasure from.
However I’ve received some gripes. The sport opts to have the King provide you with humorous banter to introduce the minigames, however I actually assume quite a lot of the video games couldve benefited from a much less diegetic type of clarification, just like the minigame intro playing cards you get in Mario Celebration. There have been too many video games I didn’t realise I’d flunked till the top of a three-minute music simply due to mentioned unhealthy intros. On this identical vein, quite a lot of the video games I favored finest have been those with easy gimmicks, just like the one the place the rhythm board spins extra wildly the longer the music goes on. The poor clarification additionally bled into exploring the hub worlds, the place the “hints” about the place to go subsequent have been by no means fairly as clear as the sport would have you ever imagine.
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Plenty of the video games didn’t appear to be well-balanced for the single-player expertise both. Some minigames would possibly provide you with a goofy NPC to assist out, whereas others don’t provide you with something after they actually ought to. It’s like there’s an expectation for the sport to solely be performed in celebration mode, regardless of selling the single-player mode as a viable choice. I additionally observed my character drifting round a bunch, and I haven’t skilled any Pleasure-Con drift earlier than or after Tremendous Loopy Rhythm Fortress so I’m gonna pin that on the sport too.
So, Tremendous Loopy Rhythm Fortress, hey. It’s received some neat concepts, a cute artwork model, an honest sense of humour and a few enjoyable songs. However in the end, I don’t assume they caught the touchdown. If you’d like a singular rhythm recreation to play with some mates otherwise you wanna play jam out with Konami bangers, look out for a sale, however in any other case, I’d most likely give this one a miss.
Score: 2/5