Beat Souls
Zoo Corporation · 2021 · Action, Rhythm, Music, Anime, Casual
PC
Mixed58% · 24 📈 Making a comeback 70%
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About Beat Souls
Let’s break it down with Beat Souls! A high-speed rhythm game where you have to avoid obstacles and collect the titular Beat Souls to wrack up a stylish combo and go for the high-score!Lay the Rhythm Yokai to rest with awesome dance moves as you put on a killer performance!
Features
Cyberpop visuals!
Colorful and cute anime aesthetic meets neon cyberpunk vibe to create Cyberpop!
Action and Rhythm collide!
Master the elegant dance of dodging and jumping out of the way of oncoming obstacles while simultaneously moving your Otomo companion to collect Beat Souls to really get that combo soaring!
Colliding with Noise will throw off your groove, resetting your combo, and draining your stamina. When that stamina hits 0, its game over…
Keep dancing until the end to pacify the Rhythm Yokai and clear the stage!
Variety of stages await you!
There are more than 30 stages available in the game!
In addition, you can select the difficulty level for each stage, so you can enjoy the gameplay that suits your skill level.
Gameplay
Dancing Dodge left or right, or Jump and avoid the noise (obstacles) that fly in rhythm with the music.
To really master the game, you have to learn to move your character, Mikoto, while moving your Otomo companion to collect the Beat Souls. Dodge side to side and jump to avoid incoming danger while moving your Otomo across the screen to collect the incoming Beat Souls.
Noisy Rhythm Yokai
The obstacles the Rhythm Yokai send at you are called “Noise”. You’ll have to jump over and dodge them as they come in all shapes and sizes.
Colliding with Noise will throw off your groove, resetting your combo, and draining your stamina. When that stamina hits 0, its game over…
Keep dancing until the end to pacify the Rhythm Yokai and clear the stage!
The Otomo Companion
Your 2 floating Otomo companions are the key to collecting Beat Souls! They’re the key to boosting your score.
Move them to either side of the screen or keep them in the centre as you try to maintain the ideal formation to catch all the incoming Beat Souls.
Just between you and me, the real secret is you have to change your Otomo’s color to match the Beat Soul while you’re trying to collect, otherwise *poof* they’ll pass right through you!
About the game world
Mikoto is the star of this show. She is a legendary Shrine Maiden with impeccable dance moves that she uses to commune with the mysterious Rhythm Yokai.The constant hustle and bustle of the big cities has driven the Rhythm Yokai from all over into a frenzy. It is up to Mikoto to dance through their noise and soothe their restless spirits!
"This is where I come in! My splendid dance will blow away all the Yokai’s stress!"
Introducing the "Beat Souls" and "Noise"!
Beat Souls
“Beat Souls” are yellow and blue, and are shaped like human souls.
Players control their Otomo characters to catch the oncoming Beat Souls.
The Otomo character can be moved left and right, and its color can be switched Yellow or Blue.
If you catch a Beat Soul of the same color, you'll get points to add to your score!
Be careful, though, because if a beat soul touches the player, you'll take damage and your combo will be broken!
Noise
Loud sounds stress youkai and form “Noise”.
Like the Beat Soul, if you touch it, it will damage and break combos when it comes into contact with the player.
The shorter and taller noises will come at you, so avoid them by jumping or moving side to side!
Introducing three important elements in Score Attack!
Fever Time
When you catch a Beat Soul, your "Fever Gauge" will increase.
If you enter a fever time section while maintaining a certain amount of the gauge, it becomes fever time and the score you can earn will increase.
When aiming for a high score, try to be aware of fever time!
Character Customization
As you progress through the game, you'll be able to unlock and select other characters to challenge the stages.
Each character has a special "skill" assigned to them, so use them well and aim for a high score!
Infinite Hell Mode (HELL MODE)
In this mode, there are three stages, one for each of the three Yokai characters.
In this mode, the music continues endlessly, and you can test your skills to see how long you can last to achieve the high score.
If you fail to catch the Beat Soul or hit a Noise, your "Excite Gauge" will decrease. When it reaches zero, the game is over.
This mode supports rankings, so compete with players from around the world for the high score!
Character profiles
MIKOTO(ミコト)
She was born and raised in a family of Miko, legendary female priests who have been around since ancient times. The Miko play the role of relieving the stress of the Yokai.With a cheerful and positive personality she is always active and has a particular love of dance.
It is up to Mikoto to dance through the noise of the Yokai and soothe their restless spirits!
MEI(メイ)
She is a Yokai of the Gashadokuro skeleton type.Although she has a calm and gentle personality she sometimes speaks abruptly which can having a freezing effect.
However, when conversation turns to things that she likes she becomes excited and energetic.
Her hobby is collecting bones and she is always looking for a suitable place to store them. Gashadokuro doesn't like dogs because they chew on her bones.
NeNe(ネネ)
A Nekomata Youkai.She has a cheerful and good-natured personality, is a hedonist, and practices what she thinks is fun while involving the people around her.
She is often a nuisance to those around her, but is somehow hard to hate.
She loves martial arts and trains her own body as part of her own training.
She is strong enough to lift a car by herself.
According to Nene, she is aiming to become the muscle queen of the youkai world.
Rinko(リンコ)
A Demon Youkai.She is a sisterly and loyal person who is relied upon by those around her.
She doesn't care about the details, and can forgive most things with a laugh and a smile.
Despite her appearance, she is a good cook and enjoys making cute character bento box lunches.
She wishes should could dress in cute clothes, but feels that cute clothes don't suit her well, this is her secret complex.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Beat Souls is a console ported Guitar Hero ripoff with a garish, ugly colour scheme and "innovative" gameplay in that you have these two blobs on either side of you and you need to move them around to collect things off the 5 Guitar Hero bands that flow down at you. And you need to jump over some hazards. Whatever. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. Because this is a console game, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficien…2 found this helpful
i love this game, idk why there's so many negative reviews - yes it';s very bright but u can edit the settings so it's less flashy if u want to. i find all the songs are funky and the variation of difficulties of the levels is good,, i really like the art style and the quite unique way that this rhythm game works.1 found this helpful
Not a rhythm game! Music based parkour game, yes. Kind of like a runner game with obstacles. You know, if you have played Everhood, this is like that. It's fun! Especially worth it if you grab it while it is on sale.1 found this helpful
This game does some things very well and some things not so well- ultimately, I don't recommend it just because of the music selection. The game mechanics are really interesting and new (more of a beat trip game than a "true" rhythm game, but it's still fun), and at the right difficulty, it's really fun to play. If you like flashy graphics, they're there, if not, I believe you can disable them. The big thing, though, is that the lack of music variety (songs are mostly by one artist) makes me not interested in continuing to play the game. Some of the music is good! Most of it is alright! But there's not much that that draws me to keep trying and improving. Having to unlock songs one by one was a bit annoying, but I personally didn't mind that much. So, great game if you either love the music or don't need music to be great to want to play rhythm games. Otherwise, maybe not.
This is a great game - it's [b]fun to play[/b] and has a [b]unique art style[/b] that stands out from many other games. Try the demo and decide for yourself though, as the full game is more of what the demo gives you. (Be warned that the full game's later stages on [i]NORMAL difficulty[/i] are more hectic than any of the demo's stages on [i]HARD difficulty[/i] though.) Additionally, both the demo and the full game run flawlessly on the Steam Deck (LCD).
My eyes hurt.
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