First of all I recommend to play this game with a controller.
It is much easier and healthier for your wrist.
It is possible and manageable with the keyboard but playing it for a longer time on keyboard can hurt your wrist. ;-))

The modification of the Melody protagonist is nice.
Especially when you use the Steam Workshop.
There are many options and possibility to modify her. It's totally worth checking out.

The really big plus point is that you can use your own music.
You can choose every song from your own music library / playlist.

Using my own music library I can confirm that you can use all kind of music genres as long as the song is not monotonously.
The best songs to use are those which are more diversified - in pace, volume, singing, etc...

It can happen that in some songs that a slow motion effect occure - this looks awesome.
[For instance: in the song "Now or Never" by Nano - it looks great]

There is already a guide with song recommendations but at the end I will show you some songs which fit good in this game or which doesn't fit. (Based on my personal taste.)

At this moment I only have 2 1/2 negative points:
- After a while the gameplay gets too repetitive.
This can cause that the game gets boring after a while.
Don't play it too much in a row - only with enough breaks in between.
- It could use more variety of backgrounds [For example: more pictures, moving landscapes and objects; explosions??:-)].
I also think it could be more flashy.
- For some songs the game doesn't adjust to the pace of the song.
But I think this can be explained because not every song is made for this game.

Songs that fit good in this game:
Nano - Now or Never
Audrey Horne - Out of the City
Germ - Cold Grey Dawn (A New Beginning)
Pendulum - Hold Your Color
Pendulum - Whitchcraft
Pendulum - Blood Sugar
Wagakki Band - Senbonzakura
Fleshgod Apocalypse - And The Vulture Beholds (Orchestral Version)
Fleshgod Apocalypse - And The Vulture Beholds (Normal Version)
Autumn's Dawn - The Ashes of a Life
Beartooth - Beaten in Lips
Arch Enemy - Yesterday is Dead and Gone
Ghost Bath - Golden Number
Babymetal - Ijime Dame Zettai
Garbage - S*x is not the Enemy
Garbage - Push It
Body Count - B*tch in the Pit
Cerebral Bore - Entombed in Butchered Bodies
Queen - I Want to Break Free
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Wagakki Band - Setsuna Trip

Songs that partially fit good in this game:
Body Count - Wanna be a Gangster
Chthonic - Quell the Souls in Sing Ling Temple
Anathema - Fragile Dreams

Songs that doesn't fit in this game:
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
Bad Religion - No Control
Cerebral Bore - The Bald Cadaver


Gameplay: 8/10
Game Controls: 8/10
Characters: n/a
Character Design: 9/10 (see workshop)
Character Development: n/a
Story: n/a
Storytelling: n/a
Graphics: 7/10
Music: well....choose your own music ;-)

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