Do I need more than 90 minutes to form an opinion? Do you need more than 90 minutes to choose your food at a restaurant? No? We're gonna be good buddies. So: It's a good game, but it's also really taxing for me.

I've got to lead off with something really important: This is primarily a rhythm game, and you'll be doing things in time with the in-game's music. If the music in the game's videos winds you up, well, while you can play this with the music off and be successful, it's kind of not the point. This isn't for you. The music is the point.

If you found the music charming, then you're in the right place. Prepare for rambling!

There's a lot going on here, and yet it's not a very complex game. I know that's contradictory-sounding and I live on that sort of thing. Some of it comes from some degree of opacity (as in not everything is explained to you), and some of it is from visual clutter.

The core gameplay has you commanding a small army of little mushroomy dudes, some of which are ranged units, others are frontline dudes. You are a battlefield commander-musician, and you direct your units with little chants. The army chants back its response. The closer you are to the beat, the better results your chants get as they buff your army in various ways. Whiff it and your army does nothing except chant what is probably "buh?"

There are only five chants that I know of, and they don't involve complex input sequences. Just three beats. Success in the game is one part staying in tune with the music, one important part keeping your character unharmed, and the rest is reading the battlefield to position your army for best effect.

That's the big challenge, really. Your army has very little initiative, they'll follow you around when explicitly ordered, but will otherwise largely stay put when fighting. Whiiiiich can lead to massive army casualties if you leave them in a big area attack. On the bright side, your little dudes will respawn in a few bars of music, though rather hurt. It's useful to keep them as healed as you can, which I've found to be a rather large challenge to date.

To do all this, you have to read the battlefield successfully. There's a lot of overlap and many of the units are tiny little stumpy fellows. Big attacks do draw attention to themselves, and the bosses do have tells they show you, both with ample notice, but since you can only command your army with the chants and those only happen at certain times, let's say there's a lot of command lag. And on top of that, you need to be mindful of your own character not getting hit too!

As for game's opacity, there's terms and a few concepts it didn't explain at first. I worked them out as I went, and I know you will too because I know that you're smarter than some people give you credit for.

Now, the game also comes off as a roguelike. It does it in the modern sense: you get powerups of various forms during a run, and you pick up resources as you go which you can use to permanently improve yourself, your army, or the town itself. Success will not be yours at first.

In the end, I have something that I'll play in short stretches (a two-hour stream episode, say!) and enjoy some absolutely baffling music and charming visuals as I go. I'm always looking for (and trying to stream) whatever weirder or more interesting games I come across, and your input is welcome. You can find me at http://twitch.tv/fdejeuner; I have a schedule I'm pretty strict with listed on my profile.

* Before I submit this, this game also has coop! I don't know how that would work, I imagine it'd be even more chaotic. I'm up for trying it though.

Don't buy this unless you are ready for the crack that this is. Coming from someone who loved Patapon 3 as a kid, it mixes the fun gameplay (which btw has an amazing OST, I love the vibes of it) with roguelike elements. Making each route unique, while it's not something I mostly enjoy, seemed to be a huge hit with this one.

The art is also amazing, really damn cute and quickly fell in love with it. My only complain comes from the translation part, as I tried to play in spanish and there are some dumb "literal" translations that makes no sense (such as picking up the word "jugar" instead of "tocar" as for "play" translation) plus the fact that it lacks so many punctuations that it makes it awful to read. Switched to english and don't have any complains about it, but I would really consider changing up that localization team because it sucks A LOT.

It's worth the 21€ that is on sale btw, at least for me.

作为patapon的忠实粉丝，本作pv出来的时候就确定一定要买了，而且融合了我最爱的肉鸽元素，更是很有吸引力，但是在体验了10个小时标准难度的EA后，我还是觉得不太符合预期。

，元素效果的设计没什么问题，但问题在于多种元素的效果无法共存，因为元素基本只对普攻和技能生效，剩下就是一些被动效果，然后攻击和技能只有两个槽位，比如你获得了一张燃烧元素的卡牌，效果是普攻带燃烧，又拿了一张技能带水花的卡牌，然后在之后的游戏中你没怎么遇到过这俩元素了，碰到了毒元素，但是你又不想替换普攻和技能的卡牌效果，所以选择了毒的一些被动，比如对中毒敌人怎么怎么的效果，但是你没有前置能触发毒的效果，所以你拿的牌都变成了废牌，因为毒只能通过普攻或者技能的毒卡牌触发中毒，所以玩家只能盯着2-3个元素去选择卡牌，但是每关结束后仅有2个选择，在最初发布的版本里甚至没有重roll的选项。

其次，，通关后可以主动增加难度选项，跟死亡细胞一样，然后需要攒满10点才能加一级奖励还不知道什么的点数，敌人加生命值，加伤害初始的选项初始都只有1点，相当于你要在通关后提升一级奖励的话，需要好几个增加难度的选项，然后BOSS的伤害奇高无比，自己的伤害是真的刮痧，最sb的是第二章沙漠图的那个牛，两轮指令后，不等第二轮的指令效果触发BOSS就会钻地，相当于每次钻地后基本只有一次的输出机会，如果你有冰冻，或者提前打出攻击指令的话，才会有两次或者更多的输出机会，BOSS在血量掉到一定百分比之前是没有疲劳的，然后又存在一些必定打中啦搭铛（也就是英雄，这游戏英雄死了就结束了）的招式，在战斗中基本也没有回血的手段，哪怕有也不够你被揍的，设计逆天，纯需要靠局外成长，提升武器的等级数值。更别说游戏初始版本大家普遍说的，因为标准难度太难太坐牢了，建议直接开轻松难度先把局外成长点了再说。可见本作的数值和机制有多恶心了。

最后想说一下对比patapon，小兵的职业是直接固定好的，每个英雄就是固定搭配的，有些兵种是真的废物好吧，离得远不会自动往前走两步再攻击，就站在原地往前扔炸弹炸空气，说的就是你这个sb炸弹兵，patapon里小兵都会一定程度自动移动确保攻击能够命中敌人，到了你这还退步了。然后也缺少patapon那种小兵兵种的升级路线，本作刷材料就是用来打造小兵的装备和一些局外属性，乐趣减半，更别说原本四节拍的操作缩减成三节拍一空拍的怪异行为。