UNBEATABLE

So this isn't really gonna be a review but more a spill of thoughts as I just finished this game and felt like I had to write something now before it loses from my head. This game is such a mess. At least to me the story is jumbled, the setting is interesting but very poorly fleshed out in so many ways, the game is buggy at times, animations can be smooth one moment and stilted and rough the next, the game can have several moments in it where its just not fun to play as a game and almost monotonous (lookin at you ep2) , and the dialogue can be extremely disjointed and hard to follow at times in terms of what is even trying to be said. The story itself feels like the writings from a journal sifted through the thoughts of a mind palace, if that even makes sense. I struggled to finish this and I took a big break around ep4 of months which is crazy to think of as its not even that long. It's a complete mess in so many ways yet has so much heart and beauty in it that I can't not love what it gave. The art style and world give me 2000s Studio Trigger vibes (Kill la Kill especially in terms of the world). The MUSIC IS INCREDIBLE (shouldn't be a surprise in a rhythm game), with so much in tone and feeling. It can be punk and in your face with a garage rock feel, heavy and oppressive with some of the industrial beats, and melancholic with the slower, more emotional songs. The dialogue and the way characters speak to each other at first was a negative for me, with characters cutting each other off and speech bubbles being overwritten by others. But it eventually became something that I appreciated because of how real it felt. Conversations are filled with constant cutoffs and drops and people yelling over each other and games don't really capture that feeling of how people really talk to each other (shoutout to the VAs they did an amazing job). And it had me laughing out loud as much as it had me introspecting from its words. The story and writing is so messy. So many things kind of just happen and there's very little explanation on why things are just happening. The break I took in the middle may have affected that but there was a lot of points where I struggled to understand the character motivations or why some characters were even fighting or what was happening to them. But especially in the last couple of hours, this game was able to touch on so many feelings on identity, loss, feeling stuck in life and the struggle of creating art and music and the emotions that push us through those struggles that in the end I kind of stopped caring about how we got here and cared more about what the writers had to say. It almost felt like watching someone spill their guts out in a diary entry, a jumble of thoughts and doubts the characters have to fight through to reach their conclusion, and that's what I found beautiful about it. It was raw and passionate, and many times had me in my feels with its final crescendo. If you end up like me and decide to buy the game because of the cool art style, punk aesthetic and music and enjoy rhythm games. You will probably enjoy the arcade mode a lot because there its purely that and its very fun. Even when I wasn't going through the story I would occasionally boot up just to do a few of songs in there. The story on the other hand is different. There will be many points in it where you feel the game is struggling to figure out where it is going and will probably get on your nerves once or twice. But I definitely would say to see it through, because you will reach those end credits and not only see a passionate team fulfilling there dream project, but also leave with a rollercoaster chorus of emotions and a heartwarming message of life and the pain we push through to find the meaning of it. Music is one of the greatest forms of expression that we have, and this entire game feels like it encapsulates that idea to its fullest.

It's a great concept and very pretty but this game doesn't feel finished yet, hope it gets update one day and I can come back.

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This is quite possibly one of the worst attempts at a game I've ever played. The tags claim it is a rhythm game but it's really a very ♥♥♥♥♥♥ walking simulator that has a poorly designed rhythm section haphazardly stapled to the side. I played for an hour and didn't naturally encounter any rhythm game sections at all. The story might be good but in the hour I spent with it nothing was worth sticking around for. Any time a game says "I don't have time to explain" my response is "Then I don't have time for your game." I did try out the arcade but there's too much visual clutter to get any sense of flow going. This is one of those games you know got made entirely in a bubble because if anyone on the dev team had shown this to someone outside said team they'd have already heard all of this. Lastly, I can't comment of the soundtrack because the game never showed it to me. "Do you recommend this game?" There needs to be a more negative response than No because that's how this game makes me feel. Maybe like a "Not even if I was paid to."

Great game,undoubted. But we all need chinese. Hope the official Chinese translation comes out soon.

[h3]Unbeatable is a bizarre experience, and not in a good way. It feels like it wasn't meant to be experienced by people who weren't part of the development team.[/h3] Story is inconsistent in both its pacing and the logic behind its events. I've played for six hours and i'm genuinely at a loss as to why people in this game do the things they do. It's like listening to your friends talk about something after joining the conversation too late. You spend a while just trying to figure out what the hell they're talking about. It feels like the development team just didn't feel like giving players the context needed to understand and dive in their world. Core gameplay is alright. Although i'm not a fan of this genre, it kept me entertained. The problem is that it's really buggy. Bugs keep showing up in all kinds of ways: sometimes a music track starts with incorrect timing, forcing you to lose just to reset it, sometimes the collision works like ♥♥♥♥, sometimes the camera shows crazy angles that are obviously not intended or characters just floating in the air for no reason. I probably wouldn't be so irritated by them if this game had just come out, but it hasn't. It's been like this for seven months or so. Unbeatable has the feel of a gamejam project in many aspects, like developers just didn't have enough time to polish it. Tutorial especially gives off that impression. Just like with the story, you're expected to figure out each minigame's controls on your own. It's not difficult or even particularly time-consuming, but it feels like nobody cared about the player's experience. [hr][/hr] I would've dropped Unbeatable within the first few hours if this incomprehensible mess were all it had to offer. The developers' artistic vision is astonishing. The game looks and sounds incredible, expensive and unique. Characters are always bursting with visual charisma, action scenes are flashy and small, quiet moments are beautifully drawn. And that's what confuses me the most. Why are the other aspects of the game so different?

Valeu a pena todos os 5 anos que eu esperei por esse jogo, desde que eu descobri a existência dele pela collab com Rhythm Doctor, e agora é um dos, senão o meu jogo favorito. A gameplay, apesar de muito simples, é extremamente satisfatória, tanto no modo história quanto no modo Arcade, a trilha sonora é IMPECÁVEL, os diálogos são muito bem feitos, e a história, apesar de ficar um pouco confusa do meio para o final do jogo, é muito boa, porém peca sim em algumas partes. E apesar de algumas inconveniências, como bugs no modo história, no modo Arcade e alguns problemas de otimização, os desenvolvedores escutam muito bem a comunidade e seguem lançando updates constantes para o jogo. Dito isso, muito obrigada D-CELL games por fazer um jogo tão foda que me ajudou a sair de um bloqueio artístico de 4 anos.