Arcaea 12+

I have been playing this game for over a year, but with the release of the final main story pack a few weeks ago I finally decided to leave a review.

Pros: It… is a really great rhythm game. This is one of the first rhythm games I downloaded and remains the one most satisfying to play. There is a high skill ceiling, and that gives me room to play for many years more. There are no flick notes (YES!). The storyline is surprisingly good, and honestly one the main reasons I ended up buying all the main story packs back when I first started playing. And wow, final verdict truly finished off the story really beautifully. Also, as someone who bought final verdict when it came out and completed everything as soon as possible, that was an incredibly emotional week. Honestly final verdict just blew my expectations out of the water, just wow. A lot of the side stories are also really good, although I haven’t yet bought them all.

Cons: world mode (how you unlock some songs) is disgusting. This is more of a personal opinion but I really hate the grind. Also, the vast majority of songs are locked behind memories, which cost real money. Including the main storyline. Ouch. I think that it’s worth it but the entire main storyline can reach ~£30 which is quite expensive and outside many people’s budget.

I ended up rating it 5 stars because Arcaea really is too good despite its flaws.

This game’s definitely worth playing, everything about the game feels extremely well polished, like charts, general ui and art all are great and im really not sure what else to comment on about that but theres 2 things that i feel should be talked about

1. world mode : ive seen a lot of complaints about world mode and the fact it feels grindy as its whole concept is replaying songs over and over again until you reach something you want and the stamina system doesnt help as it feels like arcaea’s forcing you to play the game slower with that mechanic

2. payments : theres no point in complaining that the game is paid but it surprises me how much of it is paid, atleast like 70% of the songs in the game and the entire main story and all side stories will require you to pay for access to it, and the free content is just enough content to keep going but this game is basically a paid game so think about that before downloading

other than those two things the game is amazing, its worth the download even if you’re not planning on getting anything and its easily one of the best games on the app store

I love the play-style of this game however, I feel quite disappointed that to even play the main story you have to have memories (in game payed money). I was very excited to play the first 3 stages of the story but was crushed when you had to pay for it. All I ask is at least the main story for free as that would be more than enough for free to play fans like me! Aside from this, the game play is very fun and engaging, but a warning for beginner players: once you get to higher levels, is gets VERY difficult. This is all my feedback <3