I'm really loving this. How this game's aesthetics compare to Fever's is a tough call for me, since Fever's mini-games are all seared into my brain as all-time classics. Part of me thinks that Fever did have more personality, but I'm deep into Groove and am loving it, laughing out loud, and slowly falling in love with its songs.
For me, the quantity here is making up for whatever real or imagined gap in production quality there might be. Idea, idea, idea. This series has always been sort of like a puzzle game that wants to teach you about rhythm, and this entry takes that even further with its side modes, as well as the rumored ultra-difficult modes I've heard about...
I've gotten five stars on every level of Beatspell. It had way, way more depth than I expected, though not quite as much as I let myself get my hopes up about later on—once you get used to the input mechanism, it's really just a super basic turn-based RPG. I loved it all the same, and probably put four or five hours into it alone.
I can't wait to play more! |