Seems like it's now (after a long while) finished story-wise.
It's crazy how well set-up it was. Starring a plethora of songs of different genres grouped around characters, (which you would never think they meet each other ever), chilling with the iM messages, and then the story slowly starts drip-feeding over the course of 6 months in-universe, and boy it gets going.
I think what really cements it is that they set up this universe in a way that welcomes everyone. A lot of backstory (most of it locked behind paid DLC but still), a lot of different points of view, and a justification for the entire Cytus system existing that keep the gears moving. The crossover characters never feel shoehorned either, at least up until Alice/Hans.
I spoke a lot about the story but the actual gameplay is great too, with the line of judgement that goes crazy at times. It has so many tiny visual details you never stop noticing them even after 200 hours of playing. Be ready to learn a big plethora of timings in your 550 song journey, because you'll need it on the higher difficulties.
To finish it up, let me tell you when I was enjoying this: on a daily conmute, when the sun had yet to come up and I was seated, with a good pair of wired headphones and the phone on my lap, experiencing the fever of playing a song for the first time on chaos difficulty and improvising on the spot. Then taking a short break to enjoy the results screen song, looking at the window, peeking the new story message that may have dropped, and repeating.
The only reason it's not 5 stars it's because it has some kinda minor english translation issues that I only noticed because I was reading a LOT of the story, and because Miku is gone from the game if you didn't pay for her.
It's crazy how well set-up it was. Starring a plethora of songs of different genres grouped around characters, (which you would never think they meet each other ever), chilling with the iM messages, and then the story slowly starts drip-feeding over the course of 6 months in-universe, and boy it gets going.
I think what really cements it is that they set up this universe in a way that welcomes everyone. A lot of backstory (most of it locked behind paid DLC but still), a lot of different points of view, and a justification for the entire Cytus system existing that keep the gears moving. The crossover characters never feel shoehorned either, at least up until Alice/Hans.
I spoke a lot about the story but the actual gameplay is great too, with the line of judgement that goes crazy at times. It has so many tiny visual details you never stop noticing them even after 200 hours of playing. Be ready to learn a big plethora of timings in your 550 song journey, because you'll need it on the higher difficulties.
To finish it up, let me tell you when I was enjoying this: on a daily conmute, when the sun had yet to come up and I was seated, with a good pair of wired headphones and the phone on my lap, experiencing the fever of playing a song for the first time on chaos difficulty and improvising on the spot. Then taking a short break to enjoy the results screen song, looking at the window, peeking the new story message that may have dropped, and repeating.
The only reason it's not 5 stars it's because it has some kinda minor english translation issues that I only noticed because I was reading a LOT of the story, and because Miku is gone from the game if you didn't pay for her.