Pastel☆Parade

Having completed full perfects on all of chapter 1, I unfortunately can't recommend this game to anyone who has ever played a rhythm game, is currently playing a rhythm game, or plans on playing a rhythm game. There's a strange balance in the issues I found in the 4 levels of chapter 1: one level which was great and had no issues, one level with a minor issue, one level with a somewhat major issue, and one level with an issue that ruined my game experience completely. Starting from the best level, 1-2 was good. It's nice. Moving on to a minor issue, 1-3 requires some really intense reaction times, but this gets better with practice (although it is saying something about the game that you need to memorize at least some of the pattern if you don't have really good reaction time). 1-4 has two issues, being the requirement to memorize the patterns and how rapidly they switch. The main gimmick of 1-4 is that there are 2 (technically 3 including the pattern for the switching between the patterns) patterns, and you need to play one of them based on the background. The complete lack of visual cues for what the patterns are in each section is already somewhat problematic, but this is…

Visuals are really nice, looks very Puyo Puyo like. but onto what you SHOULD know, Like most other people this game appealed to me because it looks a lot like Rhythm Heaven (gameplay wise). Yes it is the same in the way that you are playing a mini game to the beat of music, where Pastel Parade falls flat is the music part. Sadly the most important part of the game. There isn't anything that I would go out of my way to listen to again which sucks. I wont be comparing this game to others as I don't think that is really fair but there are others out there that have original songs I still listen to. Secondly the amount of mini games, this is where is the music couldn't keep me the variety of mini games would get me through the rest of the game. Well I made it to the 4th world and I was for the 4th time greeted by water mini game that is from world 1, stage 1. I am not asking for a whole set of new mini games every world (which isn't a lot to ask of for a SOMETIMES 3 key music game) but the reuse of mini games is excessive. Lastly the story I'll be honest I skipped, I don't really look too much for a story in a rhythm game unless the story is being conveyed through the music or ga…

I will recommend this game because i really enjoyed a large part of it but there's some flaws too that need to be addressed (in this game or in a sequel that i will love to see) - There's various mini games but some of them just feel like the same mini game and his mechanic but with different skin, making the game feel like a little bit repetitive. - Continuing about mini games, each one has like 2 or 3 more music variants, wich i think it's ok, but i will love to see a new mini game with that music. - The timing in some mini games are a bit strange, specially in those where you need to press buttons continously and the rythm changes, wich can cost you a perfect score. - And finally i think the worst flaw is the lack of visual/sound cues for certain situacions, a lot of songs, specially the harder ones, requires several tries to remember the tricky parts and even knowing them are coming can be a little bit tricky to get it well, like the ones where every character before you react in chain to the music so fast without any clue of what is coming. Even on normal dificulty songs this kind of thing just "happens" without any indication Despite this flaws i enjoyed the game, the …

A cute Rhythm Heaven like but a bit of a tough game to recommend. It only has a few minigames with no remixes to mash them together like RH proper, and it likes to re-use them a lot, thankfully with different music and timings which helps spice things up, but a couple of them are absolutely brutal. The band minigame makes you memorize entire rhythm guitar sections and then makes you do it again for the finale. The submarine minigame seems to have extremely strict timings for being a "keeping the beat" kind of game. The art and character design are very cute and while it is short, the story is heartwarming. There's a lot of songs to go through with different genres and tempos, and they aid the small minigame selection greatly, especially once you beat the game and unlock redone versions of previous games with extra ways to play. The sound and cue design are well done, which is important in these kinds of games, outside of the two mentioned before, you'll never really struggle to figure out if you missed something or not.

The game keeps telling me I'm early/missing even when I'm actually LATE to the inputs. Changed every setting I could find, couldn't fix it. The game's literally unplayable right now, which is a shame.

Even better than Rhytm Heaven!