Thursday, January 25, 2018

Dark Witch Music Episode Rudymical obtained

Out of curiosity of what the entire game may look like on mobile, I bought it after thinking that it is a mixed bag. On the Switch, the game is kind of worse although it has tons of improvements over the mobile version like the addition of Hard difficulty, additional sprites for the characters, improved presentation and you can turn off the voices for the character grunts. However, the Switch version has additional flaws like the addition of Multiplayer Mode which doesn't make any reasonable sense whatsoever.
Again, I ranted about the game the last time regarding the number of flaws it has like:
  1. Repetitive character grunts (Can be turned off in Switch version)
  2. Questionable gameplay concept that makes character grunts annoying (Improvements on Switch version insufficient)
  3. Songs taken from Legend of Dark Witch 2 only
  4. Presentation is okay on mobile version
  5. Multiplayer Mode is flawed in terms of ideas in Switch version
To tell you the truth, the Normal difficulty was challenging at first but it took me time and memorization to get through every song in it. Then came the Lunatic difficulty and certain songs are unspeakably difficult. I managed to clear several of them and it may be the same for the other players as there are rarely gameplay videos of the songs in that difficulty that are cleared so far.

Obviously, you're already better off with other rhythm games on Switch like Deemo and Voez by Rayark for instance. Hell, the Switch version of Voez has some songs from Legend of Dark Witch series which obviously put this game to shame. This is more or less a mediocre game for me, that is, on the Switch and I don't know what the new Rhythm Heaven game will be like on the Switch as well. Another shameful thing I had is that I had played a bunch of mediocre mobile games like KOF 97OL, Blazblue RR and even S***c Runners which was already discontinued. Just because the game is fine on mobile, it doesn't mean that it will be fine on the console as well. Some of the games on Switch are way too casual that they should exist on the computer operating systems instead like they should be part of Windows, MacOS or Linux for instance. They can also be on mobile but who's going to play them by today's mobile gaming standard? Such mediocre games like this are what you'll give up on after sometime.