Arcaea | The Mobile Rhythm Game that Makes You Want to Pass Away 

Man i remember when i first found this video. Interested, i downloaded the game and got to playing. I never stopped. I’m now 12.62 potential and i have every single song almost 2 years later. I still feel nostalgic seeing this video.

no u wrong sdvx is arcaea and osu ripoff

I liked the gameplay I downloaded I ragequitted Re downloaded Ragequit again Was fun ngl

me: nice game my phone: *multitouch not supported*

The best part is, I know one of the charters for the game. And he says that the charts he makes, despite being insanely hard, are designed to be played with thumbs. Everyone in the chat thought he was insane.

Damn, I've always been looking for a game that satisfies these needs.

things that ruin your full recall: arcs skynotes things that ruin your pure memory: blue notes skynotes

“I just realized I’m using the wrong character” *still plays as hikari*

"I'm not that interested in rhythm game stories." *Sad Cytus 2 noises* Edit: Thank you for the likes, I just rewatched this with a friend to show him the game, and I see more than my usual 2 likes, thanks so much!

"these two girls are extremely depressed and they're going to f-" I didn't think Tairitsu was into that type of kink.

Damn. When the touch doesn’t register on arcs, it’s the absolute worst. You miss so much notes all at once

TRACK LOST -0.02 PTT

Arcaea Also known as "Why are my arcs red... WHERE DID MY POTENTIAL GO!!!"

"These two girls are really depressed and they are going to f-"

Avid Arcaea player here. Lemme give a few pointers to newer players. -When you start playing, use Tairitsu in World Mode. Her STEP stat is higher than Hikari's, meaning you will progress towards new songs faster. Other than that, try some songs in Play mode and see what difficulty you're comfortable with before diving into World Mode to start unlocking. Don't worry about buying packs, the free songs should be enough to get you started. -Awakening isn't something you need to worry about until you max out either Tairitsu or Hikari. Pretty much if you hit level 20, and have the right items, you can awaken them, allowing a max level of 30. You get these items via world mode. -Ether Drops are objects on world maps that give your current partner a set amount of XP. They're good if you don't wanna grind World mode to level a character. -I highly recommend getting the Vicious Labyrinth as your first pack. It does have harder songs, however you can get the Grievous Lady Tairitsu partner via world mode, which at level 20 has one of the highest STEP stats for a non-event partner at 102. This accelerates world mode progress. -The only thing Potential affects is unlocking Luna in the Binary Enfold world maps, and unlocking SAIKYO STRONGER FTR in the Hardcore TANO*C collab. It's not a game mechanic you need to worry about much, unless you wanna show off. -Reading the Arcaea wiki for info on song unlocking (mainly for Fracture Ray, Grievous Lady, and Tempestissimo), is a good idea. -The world maps you get for unlocking Grievous Lady, Fracture Ray and Tempestissimo can be done on any difficulty. -Prioritize unlocking World Extend songs if you can. They're available for free unlock for only a limited time, so grab them while you can. If you missed out on songs, the 700 memories is worth it, since you unlock all future world extend songs as well. -Some partners gain new skills after awakening, such as Lethe and Kou. -After playing the game for a while, I HIGHLY recommend getting Black Fate. Tairitsu (Tempest) is by far the hardest partner to play with due to the way her gauge works, but her STEP stat is potentially the highest in the game, as it increases based on the combined level of all your owned partners. Beware, for Black Fate's songs are not for the faint of heart, nor is Tairitsu (Tempest)'s gauge. -Beyond charts are extra difficulty charts for different songs. They’re harder than Future and unlocked via their own unique system. Each partner has an Overdrive stat, which is separate from STEP and determines how far your partner travels along the road to unlocking a Beyond chart. Each Beyond chart has a few partners the map has an affinity with, which multiplies their Overdrive stat by a good amount. I highly recommend using the partner with the highest affinity, unless the other partners are enough of a higher level than the other that their Overdrive stat beats theirs, even with the affinity multipliers. Edit 5/9/2020: Added to the tip about potential stat. Edit 7/22/2020: Added tips on World Extend, Awakened Partner Skills, and Black Fate. Edit: 5/23/2021: It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Added tip about Beyond charts, since we’ve got a good number of them now. Edit: 6/24/2022 Added a tip more applicable to beginners, rather than people who've played for a bit.

Things that makes me die in arcea: Money money money World map World map World map Harder songs Pepole that plays on fastest settings

yep this video format is exactly why I didn't want to become familiar with muse dash before making a video on it. anyway, what kind of rhythm games would you like me to try?

Arcaea: is hard to read and watch for viewers Totaku: Playing with thumbs hold and shake intensely. Me: Watching this video on my phone while sitting on a shaking bus. My brain: i don’t feel so good

As a thumb player Arcaea forces me to be quicker and it's definitely not as easy as Lanota. In Lanota my two thumbs are fine but I've spent a couple of hours on Arcaea and I can definitely say it's a great rhythm game that encourages me to try a lot harder in Arcaea which is cool :3

After I played arcaea Now I realised how easy was bang dream and love live :(

sum time stamps (owo) 0:00 hewwo everybody - intro 0:08 game cinematic 0:17 game menu screen followed by description of the game 0:24 tutorial by tokaku on the basics on Arcaea (a mobile rhythm game) 0:38 side video on another rhythm game Sound voltex (looks super cool imo) 0:45 more input by tokaku to why she don't play on her iPad 0:55 back to song select screen 1:02 tutorial on sky notes (holy heck colors!) 1:25 dat epic gameplay 1:35 back to menu w/ detail on modes of Arcaea! (did i say it was a mobile rhythm game!) 1:47 showcase on the various song packs 2:55 ok gameplay time!(to mention on the stamina) song Laur Vs CX - Lost civilization 3:38 rank screen 3:56 song unlocked! yeet! followed by telling of what fragments are! 4:20 what partners are *cue 420 joke here* (owo weifus!) 5:06 story mode! 6:04 more gameplay!!! 7:10 score screen! owo 7:23 lore reading! (tons of text) 7:42 TLDR on weifu's of Arcaea w/ cut cuz no spoilers 8:04 another song buckle up gamers™ 9:00 tokaku's says all the things 9:51 LP: arcaea my dudes! true phone gaming (very epic) 12:30 next song! 13:40 oof but hey song unlocked! 13:52 finale points 14:22 outro UWU 14:44 ~FIN~

i still cant belive how my ipad 2 can still play arcaea without lagging

getting a full recall on this game is so hard that I had to submit my soul to the devil

This video was very useful for me to understand the game, literally did not know half of the terminology because i skipped the tutorial.

11:18 That fast section before 4 finger part tho First 17 comments :o Not even part of notification squad y e e t

"These two girls are really depressed and they are going to f-" Present time: In #1f1e33 are,they both f- each other lmao

arcaea is one of the highest skill ceiling rhythm games ive seen for mobile. the charting in this game is some of the most creative stuff ive ever seen---there are charts which manage to do storytelling of it's own. For example, I absolutely love how the charting in Dantalion is a fast, nonstop rain of notes, complimenting the events in the story chapter the song is associated with (which involves a torrential downpour of glass shards. the game's "Beyond" difficulty utilize the existing mechanics in ways that cleverly break their own "charting meta"--the gimmick in PRAGMATISM Resurrection is so fucking clever that I'm hyped by it. It's one of the few games I've seen that demands so many different types of movement--crossover, jacks, fingerswitches, four-holds, one-handed and two handed gameplay, often blended together in seemless ways within the same chart. almost every song in this game feels memorable or unique in what it asks you to do. at it's core, I think arcaea's gameplay is a love letter to pure chart design--finding the limits of what the mobile rhythm game design space can even do and leveraging the unique things that mobile games (as opposed to PC or arcade) can do.

damn my bois lowiro are really becoming popular i remember playing this game when it just popped up as an ad in the corner of t-aiko main menu, this game grew so big since those times

Tokaku:buys stellights pack Lowiro:removes pack and puts it in the memory archive

finally a game i’m better than a youtuber at!!! jokes aside i’m very happy you tried arcaea, it truly is an amazing rhythm game, both on the gameplay aspect and just with how polished it is, and i think you explained it really nicely to a new player! Also i couldn’t agree more with the song selection, although it’s small you become very attached to it, since every chart is so different. i also think you should definitely review dynamix, it’s such a fun game and honestly it’s harder than arcaea haha- anyway thanks for the video it was quite entertaining

I was literally playing arcaea 2 minutes ago spooky

If anyone was wondering what she was going to say at 7:44 then allow me to enlighten you (MAJOR STORY SPOILERS AHEAD) In the final story pack (black fate) the girls fight. Tairistu ends up killing Hikari. Black fate is also the song pack that unlocks Tempestissimo (or however u spell it lol) and during your first play of the chart, you are not allowed to access the pause menu. This is to symbolize there is no way to avoid Hikari dying. Thx for reading lol

I love how most songs they start simple,and then the beat drop comes and u start having ur fingers twisted

She’s the new *SpeedyStyles*

So I was going on a trip to Nagoya, Japan. I played Arcaea on my phone on plane and it works, also I can play Garakuta with phone Also I am struggling to get FR on phone FR: I mean Fracture Ray Edit: in order to unlock Fracture Ray(my favourite song so far), you’ll need to seal Zero Hikari’s skill, it can be done at any level but I recommend lvl 7 if you want to enjoy, lvl8 if you just want for a challenge and stats(Zero Hikari’s skill is just once you miss, it’s gonna reset it’s gauge, max lvl makes everything worthless) Also I just watched you got it, nice skill(it’s easy to unlock I remember unlocking it at 37% in 2 days Edit2: too much info for you. So at the “Absolute Reason” update, where my second favourite favourite character which is from the cover in game of “Alexandrite” is a partner along with the packs, they also added “ether drops” which levels up your character, you can get them by playing world mode. Then there is “awakening”, where you have to painfully collect different cores(Hollow cores, Desolate cores, or CHUNITHM cores which are limited time event only item and I used them to awaken Regulus). “Adverse prelude” update got a visual settings, Colourblind mode. It makes arcs more a solid blue and the red is yellow Hope these information helped you, thanks Another edit: I just found out the cinematic theme from the recent update till now is the background melody of Solitary Dream

What ? You cleared axium crisis after only two months ? It took me 8 months to finally pass it :/ (though i was fairly new to rythm games)

The entire Arcaea discord server: **Real shit?**

bold of you to assume i don't already want to pass away

This was my first rhythm game and i tried Bandori and was like "What the- this is so easy"

Jolene: *three digits almost four* Jolene: complains about. Also Jolene: *doesn’t play*

Love this game so much. It's awesome you are featuring it on the channel!

2:23 Me too. I also once thought the song selection was quite small, but gradually i also got attached to the small selection. weird feeling definately.

Dope, a rhythm game for me to play on the go. I’m still just getting into this whole world of rhythm games, so this might be nice to play alongside osu! Lol

“Arcaea is just basically CHUNITHM and SDVX on mobile” nah

Normal people: plats with atleast three-four fingers* Me: plays with two fingers* Whyyyyyy Plays*

The only Pure Memory(s) I’ve gotten is on PRS songs. I always get so frustrated because I get so many Fars on Future. They just really prevent me from getting an EX score

tokaku: It’s not that hard tokaku later: This game requires high skill Me: -.-

This was a really good overview/review of the game. I was a huge fan of Cytus 2 and my friend recommended me this game and sent me this video. I’ll probably be playing it looks so complex. Yet looks satisfying to play

I can’t even play every expert songs on BanG Dream ;-;

I just came to say I love your arcaea memes

Did you try cytus 2? I got it for free becuase of 2.3.9 miku update

When the game's gonna take up so much space, your device forces you to delete some apps, and it takes a long ass time to download

I love the game, still play regularly, but man as a thumb player half 9 difficulty are brutal! I'm not even gonna look at 9+ for now EDIT: 9:56 You and BengaleeHS have given me inspiration again

Arcea and Cytus II are my favorite mobile games

Arcaea was my second rhythm game back whenever I first dipped my toes into them years ago, Dynamix being my first and still one of my favorites. Arcaea used to be one on my favorites, I played it a lot and I loved it for its difficulty (back then I only played with my thumbs so that was fun), and I got really far in the game unlocks-wise and really enjoyed coming back to it a lot. ... But then they added world mode. And it kinda turned me off from the game. About half of the songs I previously owned and bought already were now locked behind a progression wall that I either had to spend days on end working towards when I already owned the songs before, or I had to pay so I wouldn't have to wait for stamina. The sad part is, I've wanted to come back to this game multiple times, but the thought of World Mode just turns me away every time. I don't like progression locked behind a time/paywall, especially for songs which I had already owned before the World Mode was introduced. Maybe one day I'll come back to it, but as of now, I'll just stick to Dynamix for a mobile rhythm game.

*Play more Robeats*

Anyone play Arcaea before they got into osu! (and barely play Arcaea because all their rhythm game time is taken up by osu! :P)?

ahh... yeaaahh!!! THUMB GANG RISE UP *w*)/

If you play Arcaea you will have advanced eyes on playing osu! and osu!mania

BANG DREAM BANG DREAM BANG DREAM BANG DREAM

arcaea is the only game that gives me the speed i need and it’s satisfying to hear those tap tap noises

hey for unimformed people there’s this beyond difficulty now. you get them through world mode in the beyond chapter. unlock by getting 9 potential. i need more potential now pls

Pretty good overview, not gonna lie :p. Explains the large majority of things you would want to know/care about.

alright wheres the Etterna video

1:13 even after doing the tutorial I was still really confused about how to hit them lmao

if twister made a rhythm game god damn if i mastered this my thumbs would win a olympic medal jesus christ

I'm getting into arcea and it's lowkey fun despite the r a g e when u can't do things

1:54 RIP stellights

*laughs in higllus*

+0.50 PPT jesus christ

I played arcaea and I realized how easy it is to play the bang dream. Btw my hand was broken while playing arcaea, but this game really makes me addicted😂😂

That was so intense, when you used four fingers I almost choked. Legit never used this many fingers on my phone oщо

You know what? Dean Herbert, ADD A STORY MODE TO OSU LOL

Play at 4x speed and now i can't play at 1x speed anymore

So it’s just guitar hero with added fx

Everytime I saw a sky note my brain just stop working and skip the first sky note

I am just watching it I already got a major goosebumps!!

I like this game Osu died Sdvx wtf is that Arcara is comeing Welcome 2 years

Arcaea is pretty fun, too bad I'm too much of a CASUAL rhythm gamer I suppose. The harder maps are just too hard and overwhelming to me, with nothing really inbetween to bridge me? I've been stuck on the same level for months trying to clear it so I can play this one song that I really like on its harder difficulty and I'm still not doing any better, and to make it worse when I transferred phones, the online syncing keeps your potential, but none of your scores or songs (you know, the important stuff? Imo). Made me want to drop the game... Besides that it has nice art and good music, so?

I really liked the video! I'm glad to find more english speaking rhythm game channels. You speak well too, I was surprised when I saw subtitles but I guess some people can aprecciate them

Now that I know tokaku also plays Arcaea, I can finally die in peace.

Arcaea is underrated

As someone that plays arcaea, I can confirm the title

I hope playing o!m for a year helps.

*BangDream left the room*

Guess I’m one of few Rare Oddities (bonus points if you catch my drift) for playing with fingers (not thumbs) on a phone Also PLEASE learn Cyaegha and Ringed Genesis while you’ve got them unlocked, big bangers that can blast idols and anisongs like they’re nothing

I’ve only ever played Bang Dream and I can only do up to level 26. I’m excited to start this game. 😄

My favorite songs there are: Clotho And The Stargazer Purgatorium

Basically osu mania 3D and its free Hell ya!

I m play 2 years and i m first gameplay i m so harder in gameplay but 2 years later i m pro this game my classmates say how do you pro play ( i m play in turkey)

Fun Fact: with the exception of the last two songs, every single song Tokaku played in this video has a Beyond level available

*laughs in thumbs*

My phone is way too big for my little thumbs to reach the other side of the screen, so playing something like dantalion makes me miss so goddamn many arcs

Holy shit i played this and this is 100 times better than Voez ( Im sorryyyy i love the game to ) and the terrible Osu port on mobile. Definitely keeping this game

You should try Dynamix next!

10:21 i'm in love and i think ir you can play a rythm Game on that level you can defeat all the dark souls bosses using one finger of your feeth

Finally... Finally a harder game than music tiles :D

Purgatorium at 12am is a ritual I do every night

Nobody gets into a rhythm game just so they could play the songs in easy difficulty lol

Do a vid on cytus 2!