MASH VP! Re:VISION

IMO, the best premium arcade-style 4k (6k if you count shifts) rhythm game on steam. However the DLC makes it expensive. + Made by an indie startup consisting of industry vets. + Suprisingly strong sountrack consisting of many familiar titles and artists. from xi to NOMA to sakuzyo, Mash VP has it. + Unique gameplay consisting of 2 lanes, 2 or 4 keys, and 2 edge buttons (Like DJAMX) + Feel like an arcade rhythm game + DLC isn't as pricy as some of the competition. - As per rhythm game industry standard, pricy DLC with some of the game's best tracks locked behind it. - Somewhat lacking in eye-candy. (It is their first game though). To me, this debut game reminds me a lot of Cytus back in the day for Rayark. Hopefully that's indicitive of positive things to come for their future games. As for Mash VP itself, I heavily recommend playing it, but be known that you'll likely cave to buying the pricy DLC.

So this is actually a quite phenomenal rhythm game, with a few caveats. + A unique gimmick which works + A absolutely stellar song selection (more Litmus* please) + Fantastic production values, the game generally looks great (Sell me new navigators) + Selection of settings and modes are great + The mashup tracks are generally really well done. - The Best Selection DLC's need to be reworked or removed, they sell you one or two new tracks and some from older DLC's. The pricing is, ok on these? So maybe I shouldn't call it predatory, but it's just a horrible idea to begin with, clogs up the store page, is confusing, and generally leaves a sour taste in the mouth of anyone who buys more than only the best selection packs (which are also the only things not on sale, go figure). - The difficulty selection is a bit barebones, I'm an ok SDVX player but what would probably classify as a really bad 4-key player, I shouldn't be able to clear 10's which is (basically, I know there's a 13) two difficulties from the max. I think maybe some of the existing 11/12's should go up to a 13/14 difficulty and new ones added in between, it feels like there's a significant jump from 9/10 to 11. Some dif…

It's not often a new rhythm game comes out that makes me want to play it everyday but this has turned out to be that game. I have thousands of hours playtime in DJMax V and Muse Dash along with tons of time put into other great games such as Rhythm Doctor, Spin Rhythm and the recent, yet amazing Dead as Disco - this game deserves to be included with those greats. I splurged out on the complete song pack on Steam, individually the packs come to about £100 but buying them in one go was approximately £70 I think. I didn't know a lot of the artists ahead of time but having played through a lot of the songs now I can confirm that this game has an amazing current song library - there are so many bangers here from Noma, Hardcore Tano-C, EmoCosine, T-Pazolite and my new favourite Minimoto (I'm probably butchering these names, sorry) What's more impressive is how fluid and fun to play the charts are. I'm only up to about level 8 on 4 track hard mode so far but there's none of the artificial difficulty seen in DJMax charts (like swapping patterns round for no reason) and overall every chart I've played is incredibly satisfying. There is even fun to be had on 2 track mode also, which…

Terrible charting and wildly inconsistent difficulty ratings for charts

SDVX made in israel.

Takes some getting used to, and some messing around in settings. Once you get used to the controls the game is fun and charts are great! It's very unique and I strongly recommend trying.