Reviews for Space Beats

[TheReviewGuy]

Not bad

Pretty good songs and music there. But I have to say there's not much new about this game. Not that it needs too much to make it a good game, a lot of people play DDR or games like these just for the fun of it some times and it's fine.

I find the colour scheme a little hard to follow. The metallic shine of the buttons makes them a little harder to see. I know that after a while you sort of memorize colours or which line is which button, but that takes quite a bit of playing to get adjusted to. For a beginner-ish person like me, I still depend on visual prompts to make sure I've got the correct arrow combination. And the colours made that a little hard at times.

And I also found myself scoring higher and better with the music turned off. Why? Because I felt at times alot of the buttons didn't line up with the music perfectly. Alot of these games rely on a steady pulse or a repeatable melody that's very rigid. Yours felt like it was floating alot here and there. I struggled to decide if the buttons were actually following a pulse at all and since most of the melodies weren't really distinct, i couldn't follow either.

Lining up the rhythm perfectly is the backbone of a good rhythm game. And I'm not sure it's there in this one.

littleMonsterGames responds:

Hey that's some great feedback, I really appreciate the effort there!

Could you please expand on what you mean by the buttons (do you mean in-game?).

If you found that the music wasn't perfect in following the tune,it's because I'm using a custom music analyzer engine to create the arrows falling down, so I didnt have the option to manually adjust the tracks to make them perfect, like most rhythm games, such as guitar hero, etc. get to, so it isn't perfect. I'm still working on it though, so you'll notice some serious improvement next time

If you'd like to reply (I'm not sure if you can through the reviews), please send me a PM. Thanks!

[sslipnutt]

It was ok at best

And it lagged like all kinds of hell man. I'm normally really good at rhythm games, and I couldn't get anything on here.

[Sync908]

Could use some work

I really think you could have done something more with this game. The notes were thrown together in an almost random order, and there was no real innovation with the timing. Sometimes things didn't even make sense, I was able to check my face book status, and watch a short you tube video while the first song was playing on normal mode. Also, you might want to add a key customization, as it was rather difficult to play the game with my fingers on one spot on my keyboard. Additionally, having white arrows inside of light colored bubbles can be quite difficult for the eyes to register. You may want to change that to make things easier for the player. Although being able to upload your own tracks was a good touch, I really don't think most people would go to that much trouble for a flash game. I am giving you this 5/10 because I can tell that effort has been put into the making of this game, but I really think more can be put into this to make it a truly good game instead of a "copy-paste" stepmania ripoff.

[potatoboy37]

like DDR for my fingers

unfortunatly its like that crappy rip off, right next to DDR in the arcade. Ya know the one that lets you upload your own dance steps, but then fails miserably to play the right files to the right song? anyway decent song collection, although had you compressed the files or coded a link to an external library you would have been able to put sooo many more songs, as well as better graphics, and a little less lag too. alright peace out, keep workin man

[MisaTange]

Hmm.

This is like a direct copy of DDR. I dislike the key combination, use a, s, d, f or the number keys because on chords, it gets really confusing. I like the art style and animation. I also like the fact you can upload custom songs indefinitely.