I’m Funamushi, a Japanese rhythm game player who mainly plays Dance Dance Revolution & GuitarFreaks (guitar part of GITADORA). Any rhythm games require the players to get used to the devices, charts, UI, and judges in order to get better scores on them, so it could be natural that you couldn’t get A and better easily. In other words, the more you play & enjoy the game, the better at it you can get. Also I think that rhythm game skills don’t always tell the skills as a musician. I listened to your track “Mine”, and I liked that. It made me think your skill as a musician should be greater than C+. But if you enjoyed the games you played in Japan, I’m so happy.
Nostalgia and Chunithm hurt your fingers because you played them with your fingertips. Try playing more flat handed with your fingerprints, ooh and most people wear gloves with the games so that will help too :)
If Nostalgia is hurting your fingers, you might just be hitting too hard. The keys are almost literally feather-touch sensitivity. It doesn’t need nearly as much pressure as actually piano keys.
As a Chunithm player, no. I believe that at higher levels fingertips definitely help a lot more for spatial precision. Can't say for sure with Nostalgia but it should go with a similar gist. I do agree that he's pressing the machine a bit too hard. You need a lot less pressure compared to a piano.
@@dimbolt have you seen higher level sdvx gameplay? Its crazy and as someone who loves sdvx since it came to my local round1 and i have recently bought my own 400$ controller to play at home 😅. I will say its not the best rythm game especially for beginners and recquires a stupid amount of money and time to get good lol. I want to play ongeki so bad 😂
Don't feel too bad about the performance on beatmania IIDX and Gitadora. These are older series dating back to the late 90's and have always had very strict and rigid input timing. However, I really enjoy the music in both of them and enjoy the challenge they bring.
An entire comment section full of helpful, carefully worded support and "corrections?" Has hell frozen over? A breath of fresh air! I'm surprised Japan's only made 8 rhythm arcade games though... ;P
IIDX is definitely the hardest, been playing since 2000s (💀) at this point but its satisfying because the notes are keysounded - same with Pop'n! You can hear it clearly when you're messing up the music ahaha. Please play more~
3:17 every first impression on RASIS I have to say this as a rhythm gamer, playing these type of games requires commitment. We all start horribly when we first try on any rhythm game we play on, but once you have the muscle memory, reading fast notes, familiarizing weird chart patterns, etc., you'll definitely get there.
Gitadora actually came before Guitar Hero - though back in the day GuitarFreaks only had three fret buttons, not five, so I guess both kinda took after each other.
Instruments player also doesn't really make a difference in all Rhythm games, it depends on which game it is. Maimai you're kinda fucked, same with stuff ONGEKI and SDVX.
IIDX is one of the best and yet the hardest rhythm game in the arcade since it has tighter judgement and it uses "key sounded notes". so it leaves you with excitement feel after accomplishing some music with A score and upper (max is AAA) for once i got AAA on Initiation SPH (IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS) and left me with hype and sore fingers. lmao. and the easiest one is maimai. simple yet forgiving note judgement area, but it's a fun game if you play SYNC mode with friends or someone.
maimai is for sure the best one out of all of these. It’s a life changing rhythm game in my opinion and since Ive left Japan, I’ve missed it more than ever. Luckily there’s the old FiNALE version, but something about DX was so good.
Ooh nice video! I'm glad you decided to try out Chunithm. Ever since I started playing since like a month ago, I've been obsessed with it. It's a shame that I can only go at most every week. At my current skill level, I can get SS on level 9 charts, S on 10's, and lower on higher level charts. Maimai on the other hand has been very difficult for me. I'm actually glad that you struggled as much as me that time I played maimai! I also got around 80% every time playing advanced charts. In general, if you decide to play chunithm and maimai again, you should get gloves (for finger protection and reduced friction) and earphones (I swear you can't hear anything without them). Also do you have an IC card? You need one of those to save progress.
I’ve always wanted to try CHUNITHM, but it’s not available at my local arcade! I do really love maimai though, and unfortunately I can only play once a week too, so I feel you!
Hmmm rhythm games are called rhythm games for a reason, they depend heavily on not just your note chain but also how accurate you are with those notes much like playing an actual instrument, your score will be deducted if you get a bunch of Greats or Goods, you would want to aim for the highest timing judgement which is a Perfect (Some rhythm games may name their Perfects as Justice, Cool, Critical, ect.) Also just like any computer, these arcades tend to fall victim into the audio latency issue so if you haven't messed around with the note timing setting, you could align the ingame note hit sound with the music instead of aligning the actual physical button sound
Oh, hey, finally getting this video in my recommended!! Just a little heads up that others have said, I always recommend gloves for Maimai, Chunithm and another game, Wacca, due to their screens not exactly complying with grippy, oily human fingers. I ESPECIALLY recommend gloves for Wacca, if you ever try it!! It may be dead (since it's online is very dead, has been since around August 2022, it's widely considered a dead rhythm game), but still a fun casual experience, in my eyes. And hey, if you find yourself an private server online cab, then most songs and old features are usually restored. But, you kinda gotta know what you're looking for to track down those (and most are in private arcades and/or personal cabs. I just got lucky with my local arcade). But still, some cheap cotton gloves work fine for any of these games, just something to break the friction of their surfaces helps a lot with pain.
I can also recommend you StepmaniaX, which is a western successor of Dance Dance Revolution. I personally don't like much in which direct DDR evolved since DDRX... DDRAce or DDRA20 are modern versions, but the content is quite lacking. StepmaniaX has many of the old DDR favourites and a lot of music from the 90s as well, so there should be a lot of potential music for you to enjoy there. Last thing about beatmaniaIIDX: It is brutal. I managed to reach somewhere between 6 and 7 and I managed to get AAA on maximum of 30 different songs in my career... while my husband who plays already hard charts on StepmaniaX and DDR, gets smashed by 4s in beatmania.
i've always found bemani games (nostalgia, iidx, sound voltex, pop'n, gitadora, jubeat etc) to have extremely steep learning curves, mainly because of the navigation (iidx is a PAIN IN THE ASS to navigate inside of), the sheer amount of inputs (jubeat has a 4x4 grid of buttons!) and the fact that the games don't go easy on you regardless of the difficulty you choose other than that though, most rhythm games are REALLY REALLY fun to play also tip for chunithm, i find most players don't bang the tips of their fingers on the touch pad; try flattenning your hand a little, it should reasonably help
I agree with you, all of these are definitely the most fun to play, but can be a bit overwhelming at first ! I had a lot of fun in the next games after this video !
GuitarFreaks & DrumMania(shorten as GitaDora) released far early than Guitar Hero / Rock Band series, which is July 10th, 1999(as GuitarFreaks 2ndMIX & DrumMania).
You should also try mobile rhythm games. Imo mobile devices are the second best way to play rhythm games. Some of my recommendations (in no particular order) are Arcaea, Cytus, Deemo, Lanota, Orzmic, Phigros and Rotaeno. Mobile rhythm games tend to feel a lot more dynamic than arcade rhythm games in my opinion.
I play Beatmania IIDX but in DP mode (where you play with both sides). Not everyone will have the effort or will power to get past the initial skill wall. But it's really fun for me at least. 💿🎹🎹💿
I mainly play dance dance revolution (ddr), gitadora (mainly drummainia), and beatmania. beatmania and gitadora are known for being one of the more strict games in terms of timing. you did rather well in these games considering that many really don't get very far into the game itself to actually know the score they got. also gitadora came out in 1999 (guitar freaks and drum mania) so its not a arcade version of guitar hero, in fact guitar hero took the idea of guitar freaks. back at America only round1 has these rhythm games as they are exclusive to japan.
I'm from Asia and I can say is that Maimai and Chunithm is definitely the best game for me, I can feel how I first started when I watch you play but after a long time playing as well using my skills from playing mobile rhythm games actually helps to improve my skill for arcade rhythm games. Sound voltex meh, I absolutely hate it so much my own personal opinion. I would absolutely die to travel to Japan for ongeki, I've been wanting to try the game as it's just so unique where you have to dodge obstacles as well pressing multiple buttons while fighting anime girls my god Japan is amazing. You can get better the more you play and learn the pattern and techniques, that's all I can say so have fun rhythm gaming my dude.
You're not the first one to mention mobile rythm game, I should give these a try ! But yeah, Ongeki was honestly my favorite, can't recommend it enough !
“Gitadora the Arcade version of guitar hero” xd , guitar hero was like the CS version of guitar freaks with 2 extra buttons , now Gitadora has the 5 buttons like GH
what i would love to know know from someone who plays instruments is what he think s about the crime against humanity that are flick notes. the only thing capable of making me truly quit a rhythm game
I think you can buy an arcade card for ¥300 if you want to try all the rhyme games. It totally worth it since most of the games can give you one free play if you use the card instead of putting so many coins to the machines😂.
@@dimbolt Hey glad to know! It's true that it's hard to get into for starters. I had to play 1 year on auto bass pedals before I got used to playing it in full manual.
@@dimbolt Meh, pretty much same as Japanese Arcade since BEMANI series(rhythm game brand made by KONAMI), CHUNITHM and maimai, Taiko no Tatsujin are doing strong in Korea too. Although Pump It Up and EZ2AC are pretty much only Korean rhythm game recently in Korean arcade, their concept is simillar to DDR and beatmania.
Unfortunately the learning curves for nearly all these games are really steep (especially iidx) and they require accurate timing and a good sense of rhythm if you want a high score.
@@dimbolt it’s actually called Taiko’s tatsuzin. (Drums master) and you can hit Wadaiko like machine by sticks. However, some of those are so difficult to break perfectly.
Good editing but.... - maimai is NOT a niche game (based on its popularity) - u can't claim u tried every rhythm game if you haven't touched a single DANCE game yet :P
3:25 please do not turn the knobs like that. a good way to turn them is to grip them with your thumb and fingers and turning them similarly to opening up a soda bottle for example
now try out the Mobile rhythm games! no im serious. there is a treasure of mobile rhythm games in there thats NOT tap tap revenge or piano tiles. people are missing out on it because of "mobile gaming hate"
