A promising proposal for a dungeon crawler with rhythm gameplay, but it is completely destroyed by lazy and poorly executed implementation.
In it, we play as one of the 5 characters who are teleported to a world where we have to end the present dissonance and thus return to the harmony of music. It's a standard premise that initially manages to hold up, but it becomes increasingly tedious as we progress through its monotonous story.
The game is phased, with 10 available worlds, each having 10 levels to explore (in addition to their bonus stages), which may seem like a lot of content at first, but soon becomes one of its biggest flaws, as the developers prioritized quantity over quality. All its worlds feature identical enemies and scenarios, only with reused templates and skins with different colors, as there is no variety whatsoever in the level design / gameplay. There are only 2 Boss Fights for over 100 repeated stages that will take some exhausting hours to complete, and even in its multiplayer mode, they are not enjoyable. Furthermore, with a huge number of stages and various music tracks, we encounter the game's biggest flaw, the note mapping. In some levels, this might be forgivable, however, in the majority, it has become a problem that ruins the immersion and the main element of this type of game: the rhythm. When the key mechanic is broken in this way, we get the product that is Soundfall.
Another glaring mistake is the issue of BPM, as in the various musical styles applied, there is a variation in the BPM of the stages, which is not necessarily bad, the problem arises when in some levels we have a BPM below 160, causing not only the shots of your character and their dodges to come out at delayed intervals, but also affecting the duration of the stage and the fight against enemies, as fewer shots mean lower DPS, hindering the fun with the game.
I believe that if the game were shorter and had minimal variety in mechanics, it could be decent. But, in a general assessment, Soundfall is one of the worst games I've ever played, being in my view a disaster in everything it tried to propose.
In it, we play as one of the 5 characters who are teleported to a world where we have to end the present dissonance and thus return to the harmony of music. It's a standard premise that initially manages to hold up, but it becomes increasingly tedious as we progress through its monotonous story.
The game is phased, with 10 available worlds, each having 10 levels to explore (in addition to their bonus stages), which may seem like a lot of content at first, but soon becomes one of its biggest flaws, as the developers prioritized quantity over quality. All its worlds feature identical enemies and scenarios, only with reused templates and skins with different colors, as there is no variety whatsoever in the level design / gameplay. There are only 2 Boss Fights for over 100 repeated stages that will take some exhausting hours to complete, and even in its multiplayer mode, they are not enjoyable. Furthermore, with a huge number of stages and various music tracks, we encounter the game's biggest flaw, the note mapping. In some levels, this might be forgivable, however, in the majority, it has become a problem that ruins the immersion and the main element of this type of game: the rhythm. When the key mechanic is broken in this way, we get the product that is Soundfall.
Another glaring mistake is the issue of BPM, as in the various musical styles applied, there is a variation in the BPM of the stages, which is not necessarily bad, the problem arises when in some levels we have a BPM below 160, causing not only the shots of your character and their dodges to come out at delayed intervals, but also affecting the duration of the stage and the fight against enemies, as fewer shots mean lower DPS, hindering the fun with the game.
I believe that if the game were shorter and had minimal variety in mechanics, it could be decent. But, in a general assessment, Soundfall is one of the worst games I've ever played, being in my view a disaster in everything it tried to propose.