One day a boy named PinClock was given a visit by a certain Vocaloid. Hatsune Miku was very cool and kawaii, so it was exciting to learn things from her. Not only that, but he'd be rewarded with some cute artwork for doing it. The puzzles were simple at first, but the further they went along, Pin ran into a problem: To be a real star, Miku wanted everything to be Perfect.
So Pin would try and try again. Listening to the same 18 songs about puzzles over and over and over. Did he misclick? Start over. Did he interpret something wrong? Start over. Did his arm nudge an inch as he was moving the mouse to fill in a row? Start over. It wasn't perfect. In Miku's eyes, everything had to be perfect.
He couldn't escape it. The sounds of a wrong input would scare him to sleep, and in his dreams all he'd hear is "you're not perfect". He didn't know what to do. The fatigue from failing to be perfect only caused him to do worse.
By some miracle, the wise Luka Tako in the tub explained to Pin "there's no such thing as perfect." she said, "through your imperfections, you can do anything." And then Pin had an idea.
Anytime he got an imperfection, it only made him stronger. Each start over he had memories of previous mistakes that, although not perfect, managed to pass all of Miku's extreme requirements, just in ways she did not expect. Overwhelmed, Miku bugged out and didn't give me my dang achievement for being Perfect, (they'll fix that the devs have been good) but I know in my heart I overcame the need for Perfection as Miku fizzled away and everyone lived happily ever after.
tl;dr it's an alright puzzler the graying out of parts is weird and sometimes helps too much there isn't enough songs for the game length so while good they get repetitive and the art is a nice reward but do not for the love of god strive to be Perfect it will kill the fun of the game. I prefer the penalty time based systems rather than perfectionism under infinite time.
So Pin would try and try again. Listening to the same 18 songs about puzzles over and over and over. Did he misclick? Start over. Did he interpret something wrong? Start over. Did his arm nudge an inch as he was moving the mouse to fill in a row? Start over. It wasn't perfect. In Miku's eyes, everything had to be perfect.
He couldn't escape it. The sounds of a wrong input would scare him to sleep, and in his dreams all he'd hear is "you're not perfect". He didn't know what to do. The fatigue from failing to be perfect only caused him to do worse.
By some miracle, the wise Luka Tako in the tub explained to Pin "there's no such thing as perfect." she said, "through your imperfections, you can do anything." And then Pin had an idea.
Anytime he got an imperfection, it only made him stronger. Each start over he had memories of previous mistakes that, although not perfect, managed to pass all of Miku's extreme requirements, just in ways she did not expect. Overwhelmed, Miku bugged out and didn't give me my dang achievement for being Perfect, (they'll fix that the devs have been good) but I know in my heart I overcame the need for Perfection as Miku fizzled away and everyone lived happily ever after.
tl;dr it's an alright puzzler the graying out of parts is weird and sometimes helps too much there isn't enough songs for the game length so while good they get repetitive and the art is a nice reward but do not for the love of god strive to be Perfect it will kill the fun of the game. I prefer the penalty time based systems rather than perfectionism under infinite time.