This was on sale on Steam at like 60% off, and I hadn't bought anything else this sale and I was like "fuck it, I'm eating popcorn for breakfast, it's not like I have any dignity left to preserve, might as well buy the vocaloid rhytm game"

Anyhow I hate this trend of porting rhythm games from arcades by just dumping a bunch of songs on console and calling it a day. Let me go through a bare-bone "story mode" to unlock the song, please! Give my existence on this earth at least a semblance of meaning. I had the same problem with Voez, which is a game that I otherwise love, but I just lose interest in playing, without the game telling me which song should I play and when. Theathrytm is truly the only one that Gets It.

I'm s also not the biggest fan of how each song is structured to have a single huge difficulty spike near the end. Like, the first 2-3 minutes of each song kinda feel like a Dark Souls boss-run. It's kinda nerve-wrecking when you're trying to get perfect combos to have to wait so long before being able to re-try the Actually Difficult bit.

Aside from that, this is perfectly fine at doing what it's meant to do. It's bright and colourful and the music videos have some fun choreographies. Most of the music is a bit too quirky for me, but there's a couple of tracks even I can't help but appreciate.