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In this sense it all feels very much like a JRPG without the movement between battles. These boss fights feature longer songs and throw in more powerful attacks and debuffs to contend with. Once you have beaten a few songs you’ll unlock the main boss for each stage. This nicely balances progression and challenge and should mean that you don’t end up stuck on one song for any length of time. Success is defined at first through surviving the full song, with the added goals of unlocking stronger midbosses if you see off enough normal enemies. As with JRPGs, certain combinations of spells and buffs prove particularly effective, and linking these together is the key to successfully negotiating the songs. All abilities can be moved between the different levels as you wish, meaning that you can tailor your attacks to suit a particular level’s enemies and their weaknesses. This mechanic allows for a degree of strategy as you must balance the strength of your attacks with the frequency. Every character has three levels of ability with each requiring a longer stream of notes than the one preceding it. You control all four members of your party, switching between them at will and casting spells or attacking by successfully completing sequences of notes. The gameplay will be recognisable to anyone who has played one of the main rhythm game franchises, but the twist comes from the well-realised marriage between the note tracks and a variation of JRPG turn-based battles. Having said that, I can’t see how the Hard setting is humanly possible for most of the tracks, although I am prepared to be proven wrong by some rhythm ninja in a Let’s Play video.

There are one or two tracks that brought unexpected difficulty spikes as they throw out either particularly fast or unusually paced sequences of notes, but these are fairly easily overcome once the song becomes more familiar. The chosen songs may not be by well-known artists – MegaRan was the only one I was previously familiar with – but they are mostly enjoyable and certainly represent a wide range of styles. In this case, Metronomicon does pretty well. Rhythm action games tend to live or die by the quality and appropriateness of their soundtrack.

Download the last version for mac The Metronomicon