I love perfecting those funky beats.
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Despite years of frequenting arcades, exhibiting ultimate upstairs neighbour behaviour as I stomp away on soft dance mats, and almost giving the family computer a virus or two trying to download StepMania charts, I’m still pretty bad at rhythm games. They require high execution, dexterity, and a sense of timing that I continue to not possess.
I’m nothing if not stubborn, which means I continue to launch myself head-first into almost every PC rhythm game under the sun. You’ve got the likes of Project Diva, Muse Dash, DJ MAX, Rhythm Doctor, Friday Night Funkin‘, Rhythm Sprout, Spin Rhythm, Audiosurf—all of which offer their own spin on the genre. At the core of all of them is usually the same goal: Hit every single note in a chosen song (preferably with the highest accuracy) and walk away with a full combo.
It’s a relatively simple task at lower levels. But if I up the difficulty a little too much, I’ve suddenly got hundreds of notes blurring into one giant unreadable block. My fingers no longer deliberately strike at keys, and instead I end up mashing at my keyboard like I’m five years old again and pretending I can type as fast as the cool nerd hackers in movies.
