Rhythm Tease

It a fairly bare-bones rhythm game, and this is for 0.1, so trying to keep that in mind. The story is rough, and seems to focus more on character work. The playable story is compelling, but only 2/3 character episodes are available. Three characters are shown. Only the first has any playable or viewable content, and it isn't even all accessible yet. Story consists of vn-style chat, while gameplay is a generic rhythm tile with a (sfw) loop of the character dancing. Tracks are repetitive and long, but not offensively so. Medium and hard are interesting enough, but easy mode drags. You have to play through each song and level of difficulty to get to the next. Starting with medium and/or having 2 or 3 songs from the get-go would go a long way for keeping interest and variety. H content is unlocked randomly through a gacha/card collecting mechanic rewarding an amount of cards based on your score. These are then viewed or favourited through a gallery. These three modes feel a little disconnected, but all function. The UI has issues - It's very unclear what the line for a good, perfect, or miss is. Playing on an older android, it's impossible to hit two gems/beats at once. Closest workaround seems to be hitting one then the other, but results in losing points at best to dropping the entire streak at worst. The low button placement also frequently results in the apps, back, or home buttons being triggered, interrupting gameplay. Blaming this one on device, wouldn't be an issue with other phones. In menus and the gallery, the scrolling doesn't work half the time, or flings between top and bottom. That all being said, it's an interesting concept, the harder rhythm charts are fun, and the collecting aspect works well enough to give it a couple runs. The song and visual variety detracts from this, but again, 0.1. Looking forward to see future updates, the planned content and qol changes would easily bump up this rating. Loving the rhythm game aspects.

A "rhythm" game that doesn't know how to do "rhythm" at all. The notes drop randomly, there is no sense to the timing. The story mode lasted half a second before saying nothing else exists. There's basically nothing here right now. I get it's v0.1, but why even bother with this little amount of anything?