I'm pretty confident in calling this the definitive Theatrhythm game. While I enjoyed the refinements and quantity of songs in Curtain Call, I missed the Story Mode quests of the first game, so I was happy to see Final Bar Line has both! This game is noticeably more difficult than Curtain Call, with Supreme difficulty reaching arcade-level rhythm game charts. Nothing's more satisfying than challenging yourself to increasingly harder songs until you finally clear your first Supreme. This is all the more doable with the party mechanic which, with the sheer number of characters, always gives you a new strategy to approaching difficult quests. Some may have been frustrated with all the tracks relegated to DLC, especially if you were hoping for other Square Enix properties, and I understand that. However, the amount of content with the 300 or so songs you have in the base game will keep you playing the game for dozens and dozens of hours. And if you enjoy the game so much that you do everything there is to do in the base game, then the DLC is the cherry on top.

Reviewed on May 31, 2023


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