Back into my mobile rhythm games folder, RAVON is a game where you have 15 (or 24) square inputs on the screen, and notes will move towards one of those squares where you have to tap them to pick them up. Sounds a lot like a certain other square grid based rhythm game, but unlike in Jubeat, the notes here are actual bars that move towards the collection marker within each square.
The square still lights up when you gotta tap it though, so thats nice.
It took me a little while to grok how this game’s interface works because it’s a lot to take in when you first start and a lot of stuff from other games gets a new name here. For instance, most games would have your letter grades be the standard F -> C -> B -> A -> AA/S -> AAA/SS/EX, or what have you, but in RAVON, the letter grades, or “classes” start at K, then goes G, F, A, B, O. Yes, you read that correctly, B is a higher grade than A, and F isnt the lowest grade. This is because like much of the rest of the game’s theming, these grades are named after the various star classes, where O-class stars shine the whitest and brightest, and K-class stars are cool or even dead brown dwarf stars.
Other than that, most of the other stuff is the same as in a traditional rhythm game. A song’s Tier is its broad difficulty level, its Density is a more fine grained difficulty level based on the chart, and its Distribution is a little heatmap showing you where to expect notes to appear in the song.
The game has 4 difficulties for each song, broken down into 2 types. Enjoy, Handzup, and Core are your standard easy, medium, and hard, and take place on a 3×5 grid with 15 inputs. In most cases, getting a B class on a Core chart, or playing the Core chart 5 times, will either directly unlock, or allow you to spend energy to unlock the Overnight chart, which is a much harder track that takes place on a 4×6 grid with 24 inputs, and the expectation that you’re going to be able to press 4 of the at once.
The game does not have any ads, nor anything stopping F2P players from playing the game, but the monetisation and song unlock model does come with an unfortunate amount of grinding, so be aware before you buy anything that it’ll take a couple hours before you get all the songs and difficulties. You get a number of free songs, as well as access to the “Milky Way” mission list, which lets you unlock additional free songs by completing missions and grinding energy.
Other packs can be purchased for ~£4-6 for 4-7 songs a pack, which you’d then have to unlock properly by completing the related mission map; or ~£1 for a Q.Chip, which lets you unlock individual charts directly from the Astroids map (Singles collection.)
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.synthnova.ravon Free to Play
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