![]() ![]() Play through each song in order, from the title screen opening to the final resolution, and a forty hour experience is distilled into forty minutes. ![]() The same charms and spells and weapons are here as in the RPG originals, but all elements-the quest, the fights, the exploration, the discovery-have been stripped down into rhythmic strokes of your stylus or button-taps. Miss too many notes and they strike first, depleting your health. Listen and play well to defeat your adversaries. Soon, notes scroll along one of four rows tap or swipe in time with the music and each appropriate hero lands a vicious blow. These four face off against a rogue’s gallery of monsters. Battle themes are presented as contests of might choose four heroes from across the series’ history, each represented as chibi-cartoon versions of their pixelated or polygonal selves. The kind of rhythm game you play depends on the style of music. Theatrhythm consists of several different modes. I take quick, long strides, knowing I have to move quickly if I am ever to see my 3DS again. A gleaming tower rises above the horizon to the west. Since the coffee shop is on campus, I go to the college’s police office and report the backpack missing. My 3DS, filled with two years and hundreds of dollars worth of games, is inside it. Some might call it an opportunity to retrieve what was once lost. Curtain Call is a second chance to hear and engage with these songs in a new way. By featuring Square Enix’s long-running franchise, Theatrhythm potentially sports the finest collection of music in gaming history. But you do so by listening to music from the history of the series and tapping, sliding, or holding the 3DS bottom touch-screen in rhythm with the top-screen’s visual cues. You still do meet gallant heroes, defeat wretched monsters, and embark on a journey toward annihilation or triumph. Each title in the Final Fantasy series is represented by its soundtrack. This is no role-playing game but instead a music game. ![]() This game is essentially the same as its precursor. ![]() Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is less a sequel to the original game and more what the subtitle implies-a chance for that which worked before to stand in the spotlight and take a bow. An opportunity to retrieve what was once lost. ![]()
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