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#100. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call

As you can see by looking at this list, Im not a music/rhythm genre fan. Outside of this, Ive only played the Persona ones, which are fine. Final Fantasy is my favorite series, and Im a huge fan of video game music, especially this series, so when they released the original Theatrhythm, I decided to take the plunge. It was decent fun, albeit very limited. Each game represented (just the mainline games from I-XII) only had three songs each, and the only playable characters were the protagonists of each game. It was fun but shallow.

Curtain Call fixed that issue in a big way. There are about 70 playable characters and over 300 songs (100 of them being DLC, including songs from other Square games like Chrono Trigger, Nier, and Xenogears). It also isnt just a straight up pick a song and play it game like the original. Theres a quest mode where it will randomly generate maps with different songs at increasing difficulties, and its actually pretty fun! The various backgrounds are colorfully nostalgic, and as a long time fan, its cool to see something like Zidane marching down the halls of Alexandria Castle to the tune of Behind the Door or beating the crap out of Safer Sephiroth in tune to One-Winged Angel. It can be pretty addictive trying to clear each song on increasing difficulty levels. I got to the point where I could beat Hard mode songs with regularity, but Ultimate was often too much for me, especially on battle stages. My reflexes just werent fast enough! If I beat it on Ultimate, I just barely squeaked by, but it was still a lot of fun.

My one major knock against the game is the artwork. I dont want to see Squall and Cloud looking like creepy chibi dolls. I dont know who thought this was a good idea, but if they ever make another Theatrhythm for Switch (please do), change the art style!

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