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A pretty nice chinese 4k/6k vertical scrolling rhythm game.
For a really cheap price (without DLC) it has still around 50 songs and four ways to play each one of them (Two difficulties for each key mode, so 4 charts per song)
For those who want to get the DLC they can end up with many more songs and a lot of things to do as a result.
The game is pretty beginner-friendly as the easiest charts in this game don't require you to have any experience with VSRGs whatsoever, so it's a nice way to start your rhythm game experience.

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Explanation of scoring system:
The scoring system in this game is pretty unusual. Your score is "sync.rate" which like accuracy but not really:
Max theoretically possible score is 125%
10% is combo part. If your highest combo is X% of max combo, then you get X/10% from combo pts.
The rest 115% are working in a peculiar way.
The game has 5 timing judgements which are as follows:
Exact (Light blue)
Exact (Darker blue)
Great
Right
Miss
Hit value for each one of those is not a constant value except for a normal "Exact", which is 100%.
Hit value for light blue Exact varies between 105% and 115% depending on how close you hit to the perfect timing point and the only way to get it to be worth 115% is to hit with under 1ms offset. Which means the only way to get max score in this game is to hit every single note with under 1ms offset, which is not humanly possible so we get another unusual feature: Absolute lack of any ties on the game's leaderboards. Everyone's score is different due to different timing distributions.
"Great" always gives over 60% but the value is also not constant
"Right" always gives over 20% but the value is not constant
(it seems like) the lowest grade is B (but i think I've actually seen someone get a C, not sure how) and highest grade is "black" EX for 122%

I'm still going to play this game for a while to actually go through every chart and get most of the achievements on the way as well so this review might change a little.

A pretty enjoyable board game, that is if you make certain points clear:
1. The game is heavily rng-based, while there is a decision-making part that can make you more likely to win/lose, rng still makes sure you can't have a really high winrate.
2. The game is oriented to be played with friends / others in general. the single-player mode tells you a story related to the characters and is pretty rigged on higher difficulties. Use Sora or Tomomo for those if you want to clear them to unlock stuff... Actually, refer to this guide for singleplayer: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=813414881

A lot of people think that DLCs make the game pay-to-win, but it's not the case at all because rng still decides more, lol. Plus the launch characters don't feel any weaker than DLC ones, the DLC ones just give a higher variety of playstyles to try.

Achievement hunting in this game can be a big issue and actually take a long while though- so I don't suggest to buy this for people that just collect achievements, but for those who want to enjoy randomness with friends, it's definitely a nice choice. After all due to the rng factors it's almost impossible to have two games go in an identical manner, and even the game has good variety of things to try...

Definitely recommended for everyone who doesn't mind a lot of rng in their plays and want to waste time in a fun way.

The intended rating for this review is "Neutral" but steam has no such option so it leaves into positive.

Basically this game is "yet another osu mania" with some Etterna features mixed up. The way the game judges your plays is heavily accuracy-based as well.
I personally feel like it's better to play Etterna currently, but maybe if the game is in development, they will finally make some change that will make the game different from osu mania / etterna / other vsrgs.
People expected something unique, but got pretty much a mix of the two ideas that were already used before.

Current difficulty ratings for charts feel often over/underweighted too... And the common values remind me of MSD a whole lot. The formula used for overall rating is exactly the same as osu's and the scaling feels like it's pp divided by 10, lol.

I do not recommend this game if you already play Etterna / Osu Mania, but i do not recommend against it either.
Just a neutral review.

*Obviously once the game finished development / more features get added, the review WILL reflect them.

The best game I've ever played.
Very fun gameplay, a lot of cute things, a fairly big free-roamable world with a lot of secrets and things to find, many things to do even after you finished the game... And all made mostly by a single person.

This game is about a bunny named Erina who somehow got transformed into human and wants to find their master and then starting to uncover mysteries that Rabi-Rabi island has. A simple task turns into a big adventure with a lot of memorable moments... And all this in format of a mix between bullet hell and metroidvania, with some tough platforming sections here and there. If you want to get into bullet hell games or platformers, playing this could be one of the stepping stones into those two genres in a way... Since it gives you understanding of concepts those games are based around.

The game offers a wide variety of difficulty settings that can accommodate to each type of player. Starting from a difficulty that anyone can clear implying they try (literally anyone i mean), to difficulty that only the very few can do... Which seems impossible at first sight and is called such in the game as well.

Also this game is the only one I played that has speedrun mode - a mode that skips all the story stuff and shows in-game timer with item/map% shown as well. Due to the world being open, there are very many ways to build yourself a speedrun route for this game. There are many factors that can impact your route choice, but for some of the main categories there is a couple of really bad tricks that can kill your run in the middle / end if you want a very optimized route...

This game is perfect for people that enjoy challenges of many kinds, be that simply obtaining all achievements, beating the game fast, with various handicaps, or even beating the game with all items being randomized. (I don't suggest randomizer to anyone who has not memorized every single item location though)

And for people who want to enjoy the game casually there is a lot of cuteness, glorious OST and a lot of fun to have...

I tried to be brief with this review and also didn't have my thoughts organized enough, but in short: buy this game if you like any of the following:
1. Challenges
2. Cute things
3. Bunnies
4. Metroidvanias


Also I REALLY suggest anyone buying this game to at least buy "Is the Order a DLC", this DLC expands the game story, makes it much more interesting and adds new mechanics to the game. For people that want more challenge they can buy Before Next Adventure as well.
10/10 in all categories. Don't even need to list the categories. (S+)

Note: My achievements were reset and all my timestamps are different from actual ones. Due to it happening due to a certain accident, the developer decided to add a new launch option for me to be able to reset and still stay at #14 (#1, because 13 people were hackers) in achievement leaderboard as I was the first person to obtain every achievement after cocoa DLC was released.
The new launch option is -noachiupload, it prevents uploading achievement score to leaderboard so I can reset achievements without affecting the board.
Actual time of completion is about 250 hours.
All valid achievement timestamps are here: https://truesteamachievements.com/game/RabiRibi/achievements?gamerid=46228
Was participating in the beta of Cocoa DLC since day 1.
Obtained every achievement it had at 10.12.2020 (dd.mm.yyyy)
after that... my achievements messed up.

Archive of a conversation in rabidb server showing that I did reset it using debug and dev response on it:
https://i.imgur.com/nUnxjt4.png
https://i.imgur.com/p1gsK3w.png

A short review of this existed prior to bigger one being set up. I absolutely didn't do it for some badge or some steam promotion thingy (:

More real one would be:
Graphics: While they are all pretty nice and stuff, physics are still not really that *flawless*, but still pretty okay. There is nothing I could complain about graphics-wise except maybe that it doesn't run well on my PC, but my PC is too old so that's understandable, I'd give it a 9/10 (:
Controls: Your standard The Crew / NFS or some other game. Nothing special. Except planes being a thing, and those... are weird to get used to but once you get it down it will become intuitive... So again, no complaints.
Amount of content: There is enough todos to occupy a user for about 100'ish hours at least, but if a user is a completionist, it may as well go to 500s.... Clearing all things on Ace difficulty will take some time and grind...
Overall enjoyableness: This game is relaxing to me compared to everything else I play recently. Going here after a lot of osu plays or something can be a nice change of pace. After all, Racing games are not as tasking... Since you can variate your gameplay pretty well here due to all the types of transport and disciplines, that can be pretty fun. Also Live Summits are nice.
I'd say I would auto-suggest this game to anyone who has played games like TDU/TDU2/The Crew (1) or generally would want a not-that-serious of a racing game, yet not something that has annoyances like cops and other NFS things.

This game > NFS series definitely (:
At least for a person that wants to do a fairly relaxing gameplay session...
Obviously has numerous instances of annoyances, like that Monster Truck race or some other things that can arise from you trying to make highscores, but if you play it casually without caring much about that, you can have a fun time.

This game is a pretty nice game but some people might find the protagonist annoying and also the game is trying to be more serious than the other nep games. Also the game seems to be too intrusively give you anti-piracy propaganda (I mean it's fine but- maybe a little bit forced (: )
There are still memes in the game, but less.
There's a lot of endings and one ending is especially emotional and there might be a hidden meaning behind it (:
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All the cons would be...:
1. Tricky to change shares to fit your ending needs
2. Grindy to get 100% achievements.
3. If you pick any other ending than True one, you have less chapters. If you choose Conquest you have the least.
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All pros:
1. [Most of the pros of re;birth 1] (For example remake system)
2. Stella's dungeon*
*Actually Stella's dungeon is pretty bad for achievement hunting as the achievement related to fully completing it is kinda overly grindy..
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Overall rating:
Gameplay: 7/10 (B+) - Your typical nep with a bit less memes than usual, and more grind to 100% lol
Story: 8/10 (A) - Could have been better by having less but more interesting endings, w
Controls: 9/10 (S) Typical nep.
Overall: 24/30 -> 8/10 (A)
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I think this game is very worth to buy and play. but it might get a bit too boring to fill out the CG gallery as it requires to get EVERY ending and some endings feel like copy paste from the normal end lol.
I feel like it's fair to play through the game like 2-3 times to get the "main" good endings.

Okay so this game is kind of re-birth of Road Rash series which is made on unity, the game itself plays good and even betr than classic, but for now it lacks moar content (mostly cuz its one-run kind of game, so its okay).
The devs are trying to make the game as good as possible, and i've deleted my prev. negative review claiming that achivs are broken and devs ignore this... now i know they don't so this game will be 100%able soon, for now - just ~56%.
Graphics: Everything looks good, stuff explodes, and graphics don't eat too much resources. (10/10)
Gameplay: It's fun even if you play it few more times, you can use either firearms or cold weapons, both are useful. You have a choice of bikes and stuff. (10/10)
Setting: Gangs, bikes and stuff in different parts of USA, gud nuff. (9/10)
Controls: everything is fine as well, but deflection doesn't work for now. (7/10)
Story: <Do you need any here?>
Replayability: Kinda high cuz its the main thing about this game, you get skills that carry over to next playthroughs so it can be easier. I immediately played this game again and then Campaign +, was kinda disapointed not getting an achievement tho :c (to be fixed) (10/10)

Overall rating: 9.2/10 (S)
The game is worth buying, but beware of that its not so long one, you might want to go for all achivs (once they are fixed), otherwise you will overpay cuz of low time spent.
EDIT: A lot of new stuff came to increase replayability of this game... Now it seems to be worth the funds~

Safeness rating: Partially Safe For Work (contains some sexual references and scenes close but not NSFW)
This game was veery decent, even tho i bought it cuz steam shown it in discovery queue (and ofc cuz Nep compeled me to do so xd)... Obviously its very gud jrpg with op story n' stuff which is definitely worth getting and clearing for those who like that kind of things :3

Main review part:
Graphics: Textures are kinda good even if the game was ported from console. Chars look pretty decent, but there no support for 1680x1050 or DSR. Also there is a bug with borders in fullscreen cuz of different aspect ratio which forced me to play this game in windowed mode. (9/10)
Gameplay: The most interesting out of those i had recently.. a lot of stuff to craft, enemies to beat, tactic variation is also included... but at mid-to-late game you may notice yourself doing everything under the same scheme of 3-5 things (For bosses if you have super exe drive: 1. use break attacks in order to do guard break 2. spam EXE drive 3. Heal when needed while doing those two.)
The Remake system is really new to me, remake world to suit your farming needs is definitely neat.(even if limited) (10/10)
Controls: Nothing to complain about if you are playing with controller. But if you don't have one, just rebind stuff up! (10/10)
Setting: Everything's OP part II(well... almost) ... Chars are cute, but location variety is at not so op level cuz some dungeons are copied versions of previous ones.The idea is good tho. everything is made not really serious, but self-aware... (10/10)
Replayability and stuff: Instant desire to replay the thing! xD (with DLCs that increase level cap it won't feel useless also) and new game plus is the only way to get all stuff... so sure thing...[btw... if you reached like lvl99 or moar, you will be able to win fights you had to lose due to story events, you will get no XP for those fights, but its still funny to win those...] (10/10)
Story itself: Again, chars are more than memorable (may create some attraction to one(or not one) of the chars, the story is cool, there is some humor (most of jokes created by creating very odd situations xD) (10/10) EDIT: got true end, it was OP as well! How to self-sacrifice not to die at the end and do the thing you were sacrificing for at once :D

Overall rating: 9.8/10 [S+]

One of the most decent games i have ever played! The only con to encounter is difficulty at some moments which makes you grind, but grind in this game doesn't suck. Must have for those who like jrpgs and being surrounded by cute ppl. 420 Nep it. :3
P.S. Waifu choice = Neptune (but still others are adorable too...)[not much of an otaku -> affection meter is not at max, maybe at 66%]
P.P.S. Now my hobby is to read waifu threads about those game series...(cuz its so funny to watch ppl trolling and insulting each other cause of their personal character preferences) I may watch that animation sooner or later too! (after i'm done with other games from series)

This game is all about being silver/smurf/hacker/etc.... and if you like won 4 matches and lost one you may lose that very rank called Gold Nova I and then cry for eternity... :3 (Ranking is sooo unstable stuff here so better not to care about them at all untill you stop deranking...(you will in 5 deranks....))

10/10 best crying simulator ever....

Now serious review part:
Graphics: Everything is going towards being real and is already good enough, also physics are op (Havoc, what did ya expect ;3) (9/10)
Gameplay: It is like drugs so prepare to get addicted and eventually dropped from gold nova 3 to silver 1 :3 (so you can be that very smurf who made me be demoted from gold nova 1, i hate you) Also Russians entertain a whole lot with their "cyka blyat' and so on, also Polish ppl are funny cuz they try ot be like Russians too :D(not all of them ofc, i'm not that mean to sue the whole nation by some idividuals...(10/10)
Controls: There are two cons: No way not to suck when you just bought the game and the fact of you needing to change weapon to grenade instead of throwing it using one button... (8/10)
Setting: Well this has some variety of stuff, but still map amount is not satisfying... and its all about T's and CT's struggling that happens atm that to ISIS :3 (7/10)
EDIT:Ranking system will be stable once derank like 5 times but quality of games will restore with a lot of time cuz everyone needs to derank xd
Dota has still better system cuz you can track changes... (even if i have 1428 mmr there :3)[p.s. now there are around 30% silverscuz of recent update..]

Overall rating: 8.5/10 [A]

Conclusion: This game is definitely worth buying if you have some people to play with you or you can play solo well without being infinitely frustrated by rank loss xd. Or you can always play Casual and enjoy totally random parties of random silvers/globals at once... (best place to practice before getting rekt tho...) And this game is kinda cheap so you may even be that crazy to buy it not on sale since it will pay off by amount of time wasted played...

This game is kinda good only if you don't do story and didn't set controls to hardest ones without having a racing wheel.(since several cars suck at handling too much...) Buy it only on discounts!(since it costs too much...)

Main review part:
Graphics: Good but they eat too much so i have to play on medium to not to lag @10 fps :x (8/10)
Gameplay: It's kinda good, but some moments are too bad (when you have to rekt someone for example)(7/10)
Controls: Menu navigation sux, car handling: okay, but not realistic(ice+any OP car=powersliding 24/7, but if we go "nub mode" and set full assist, we don't powerslide -.-) (5/10)
Story: Good for NFS, not good for everything else xD at least no unethical ♥♥♥♥ so its okay... (6/10)
Setting: 1:50(i think) scale USA is kinda cool, and a lot of cars to choose... (10/10)
End-Game playability: Best part of this game is endgame cuz you have much todos and PvP, but.. that means grinding which is not good in racing kind of games...(parts for example) (7/10)

Overall rating: Game is kinda decent, but overpriced and you must rush thru story to get to interesting part... Btw there is some other alternative to it which is much betr, but has no nfs stuff, its Test Drive Unlimited 2... kinda decent time waster, so try it out too! (much cheaper. but those edays dev support is almost nothing :c)
Rank: B (7,1/10)