Obviously this game is overflowing with charm and I was drawn to it!! Extremely adorable character designs, great music, and a great homage to PaRappa. But some game play was a little frustrating:
Is it just me? It's really hard to tell what's going to be next with the faster paced portions when you have to respond to the inputs immediately, especially when playing the level for the first time. Maybe some sort of queue system can be added to see what's next if you're not repeating something? Freestyling was my saving grace, though I can't consistently get that right either. I had recalibrated to what looked right to me as well.
Continuing from above about difficulty, is it also just me, or are the scratch commands too fast as well? I tried both a gamepad (I use a generic Xbox style controller) and keyboard, and the gamepad felt better. It's fine when they're not too close together of course, but with both the joystick and d-pad, I get penalized for incorrect inputs when I try to go too fast. These sections made me fail levels 10s of times. They weren't satisfying and I felt myself scraping by. Maybe it's just me though.
Visibility. It took multiple play-throughs of some levels to notice that I was completely missing some cues. Something to do with the button cues being transparent, plus the bar background being transparent, plus the actual level environment having a pattern? Maybe increase the transparency of the button prompts on the bar if not the whole bar UI? (This would be a great accessibility option in the future!)
Other stuff I noticed:
When you recalibrate in story mode overworld, it restarts the story from the beginning tutorial. It remembered my progress with me opening the music box, but I still had to go through the opening cutscenes again.
When paused in the middle of a battle, if you go into the options menu and press start again, the battle will continue with the options menu still up.
It's kinda sad that a lot of the comments here are unrelated memes instead of constructive criticism (although there are a lot of positive comments too!) and I'm also aware this is still a demo, but I hope this helps!! I am really looking forward to how it develops and I can feel the heart and passion oozing out of this project, and it's incredible to be able to make a game like this by yourself. Best wishes.
Hi! So ive had this thing where everything in the game is BRIGHT like the whole screen is saturated,
it is not my brightness level i checked obs ( a recording platform) and it looked perfectly normal, but when I play it its super saturated and hurts my eyes.
yes. At the part where Jamtine has a rival battle with Melodii, Mellodii says that baking cookies was how their mom and dad fell in love until they had Melodii. which does mean they have a dad but their parents most likely got divorced
so it like comes in a zip folder u extract it and then u open the extracted folder then you just open the "Scratchin' Melodii - SAGE 2022 Demo" (also labeled as application on the side so you'll prolly know which to open)
you can either play it like that OR you can add it to the library of ur steam before you play it (idk what difference does adding it to steam makes but its cool to add it in)
This is overall a really good game demo, but I have experienced a lag. When I am about to play a line, the NPC just lays out the actions at the beginning of their line, which leaves me hanging with no actions to do.
the game looks alright and im absolutely in love with it!! although maybe it's just my low end pc or it's the game but I've been trying alot now and i still can't get past the first rival battle since the loadinf screen just takes forever to load :(
i tried to play it on another pc (which i believe is high end) and still it doesn't let me play
maybe it's the file size that keeps beating up my pc but anyways i really love the game!! good job :D
I'm having trouble playing with a Switch controller, I have it connected to my laptop wirelessly, and the inputs show up in settings, but my button presses aren't doing anything on my laptop
Edit: Nevermind, I connected my Xbox controller to my laptop and it works fine.
Not sure if I did something wrong but when I try to play with my xbox controller the A button pauses the game instead of playing the note, and when I followed the description and added it to my steam library the controller stopped working altogether.
Too late, but it could be because you configured your control in Steam and you still have it open, to solve this make sure that Steam is closed completely, for that you have to close it making sure that it is not open in the background, for example from the task manager , and if it still doesn't work, disconnect it and reconnect it
as far as i know each bar of inputs has a certain amount of style you can get for freestyle inputs, each input being worth a different amount, you gotta fill the style bar for each bar using any combination that fills the style bar (top left of screen, right bar) for the 3D section anyway
Dunno if this is a known bug but thought id mention it. Somehow the game corrupted my save data and there is no way to delete that save data in game. It instead makes most menu buttons not work, and if you try to play a song in practice, it boots the song but doesnt work. Unsure how my save data got corrupted in the first place but its probably worth finding a way to delete/restore corrupt save data so the game doesnt suddenly become unplayable.
btw issue is fixed once you delete all save data from the file
This had to be the absolute BUGGIEST demo I have ever played in my entire life. The game looks really good, but its not even playable. First of all, when you have to press the X button (on playstation controller), the game pauses instead of actually playing the note. That makes it so that the game is UNPLAYABLE (I legit CANNOT play it). Second of all, when pausing the game, the song starts over, but the lyrics and animations are completely out of sync sync. So everytime you pause the song, you basically have to restart all over again. Third, if you do some manuvers around, an animation can get completely stuck, which means you have to restart the game if you want to play the game EVERY SINGLE TIME. I cannot believe that the developper(s) have the audacity to call this a demo, id say an early pre-alpha, at best. Also, on this recording, we can see that the game almost crashed when I tried to press R, for no reason.
I S-ranked all songs, but after S-ranking (with 3D mode) Grease Poppin', all other songs show as A-rank. S-ranked them again but still shows A-rank, with the high score stopped at 1650. This might just be because 3D mode is still a work in progress, but I'm wondering if my actual scores are still saved somewhere in the game file.
I hope this game kills fnf. And the artstyle is similar to Rhythm Heaven, there is NO way it's similar to fnf, the gameplay is just Parrapa The Rapper but enchanced. Not every rhythm game is similar to fnf just because it's animated.
Overall Solid game! I just have a small problem: every time I minimize the game to do some stuff like adjusting my recording stuff and come back, the game somehow disables my GPU then blue screen after a few min. I want to know if other people also experienced this or is it just me xD
When I play the game I sucked and I was on easy mode and when I went to Nami's stage on my windows computer, it would sometimes have the buttons being one spot, it just overlay each other, and when I got to a certain point, it would have a pacific pattern and I would hit it correctly and it would say that I was missing notes. Great game overall 🎮💕😁🎉
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AAAAAAA MAC SUPORT!!!!!
USE WINE
This game has so much charm! I really love the animations the character designs the lyrics, keep up the great work LephemStar!
Here the gamerplayer of Youtube
Hey dudes, when I use the calibrate option, the game restarts to tutorial. What can I do?
Obviously this game is overflowing with charm and I was drawn to it!! Extremely adorable character designs, great music, and a great homage to PaRappa. But some game play was a little frustrating:
Other stuff I noticed:
It's kinda sad that a lot of the comments here are unrelated memes instead of constructive criticism (although there are a lot of positive comments too!) and I'm also aware this is still a demo, but I hope this helps!! I am really looking forward to how it develops and I can feel the heart and passion oozing out of this project, and it's incredible to be able to make a game like this by yourself. Best wishes.
Its saying the game is 111 GB even though it says its 385 MB on the page is this an error?
Nvm it just downloaded
Hi! So ive had this thing where everything in the game is BRIGHT like the whole screen is saturated,
it is not my brightness level i checked obs ( a recording platform) and it looked perfectly normal, but when I play it its super saturated and hurts my eyes.
One of the most charming games I've seen in a while! Please continue making this!
game "Recommends using controller"
Me: Uses controller loses every boss battle "Fuck it ima use Keyboard" magically Wins all A Rank
relatable
I wonder.. can you use keyboard instead of controller?? i'm a poor gaymer (insert sad emojis here)
I play on keyboard and in my opinion Keyboard is better. (Answer to question Yes you can use keyboard)
guys. i got the screen protection pop up and i accidently click don't run. any solutions?
are you on windows 10 or 11
Yes why?
dude he meant what os your in
I Cant Get It On Story Mode Cause I Clicked A When It Was 0m
What are the controls for pc? it shows me w,a,s,d,q,e but not the scratching notes button
The arrow keys are used for scratching
Bro I am wondering, does Melodii have a father?
(I got this question from a user on Youtube.)
yes. At the part where Jamtine has a rival battle with Melodii, Mellodii says that baking cookies was how their mom and dad fell in love until they had Melodii. which does mean they have a dad but their parents most likely got divorced
how do you open the game i downloaded it but im not sure how to open it
so it like comes in a zip folder u extract it and then u open the extracted folder then you just open the "Scratchin' Melodii - SAGE 2022 Demo" (also labeled as application on the side so you'll prolly know which to open)
you can either play it like that OR you can add it to the library of ur steam before you play it (idk what difference does adding it to steam makes but its cool to add it in)
thank you so much
Bro Cant play games
how do you play the game its not letting me play
When I try to download it, after it completes downloadinf it delete
Probably anti-virus. Turn it off firs
does anyone know how to restart the story mode??? Do you have to complete it to let you restart it over again??
In the settings there’s an option to wipe your save. Forget which tab it’s under, but you’ll find it if you look.
It doesn't work for me, after i restart the game.
This is overall a really good game demo, but I have experienced a lag. When I am about to play a line, the NPC just lays out the actions at the beginning of their line, which leaves me hanging with no actions to do.
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bruhh
I thought your dead, what happend, somboedy cured u
wut the helllllllllll that gotta be satire
W comment L downvoters
the game looks alright and im absolutely in love with it!! although maybe it's just my low end pc or it's the game but I've been trying alot now and i still can't get past the first rival battle since the loadinf screen just takes forever to load :(
i tried to play it on another pc (which i believe is high end) and still it doesn't let me play
maybe it's the file size that keeps beating up my pc but anyways i really love the game!! good job :D
nice one
no way real marcell
holy shit is that marcello 100 % real no virus xbox ps5?
this game is blowing up
wisdom
I'm having trouble playing with a Switch controller, I have it connected to my laptop wirelessly, and the inputs show up in settings, but my button presses aren't doing anything on my laptop
Edit: Nevermind, I connected my Xbox controller to my laptop and it works fine.
Not sure if I did something wrong but when I try to play with my xbox controller the A button pauses the game instead of playing the note, and when I followed the description and added it to my steam library the controller stopped working altogether.
I'm having a similar issue. Though I'm using a Dualshock 4 so I needed to add it to steam. Once I did, it worked fine but X also pauses the game.
Dude DO NOT use steam it disrupts the game.
Try closing steam
Too late, but it could be because you configured your control in Steam and you still have it open, to solve this make sure that Steam is closed completely, for that you have to close it making sure that it is not open in the background, for example from the task manager , and if it still doesn't work, disconnect it and reconnect it
HOW DO I BEAT THE 3D PART OF THE BOSS BATTLE
you press the funny or soemthing
i managed to get it
the best bug (pls help)
I won't clicking the A for keyboard (on latency calibration)
HOW THE FUCK DID I LOSE THE BOSS BATTLE I GOT EVERY DAMN PATTERN RIGHT I SWEAR THIS SHIT ASS GIRL IS GONNA MAKE ME SO MAD
Reminds me of Parappa lol
as far as i know each bar of inputs has a certain amount of style you can get for freestyle inputs, each input being worth a different amount, you gotta fill the style bar for each bar using any combination that fills the style bar (top left of screen, right bar) for the 3D section anyway
this helped me get a A on stir and mix and on nami.wav , thanks
U just GOTTA BELIEVE!!
Dunno if this is a known bug but thought id mention it. Somehow the game corrupted my save data and there is no way to delete that save data in game. It instead makes most menu buttons not work, and if you try to play a song in practice, it boots the song but doesnt work. Unsure how my save data got corrupted in the first place but its probably worth finding a way to delete/restore corrupt save data so the game doesnt suddenly become unplayable.
btw issue is fixed once you delete all save data from the file
FINALLY, I GOT MY FIRST A RANK
This game's gonna be BIG when it's complete, keep up the good work!
yes, he don't bite
why did bro embed a random ass game💀
I've got my reasons
griffpatch??????
yes
Too young for Twitter
This had to be the absolute BUGGIEST demo I have ever played in my entire life. The game looks really good, but its not even playable. First of all, when you have to press the X button (on playstation controller), the game pauses instead of actually playing the note. That makes it so that the game is UNPLAYABLE (I legit CANNOT play it). Second of all, when pausing the game, the song starts over, but the lyrics and animations are completely out of sync sync. So everytime you pause the song, you basically have to restart all over again. Third, if you do some manuvers around, an animation can get completely stuck, which means you have to restart the game if you want to play the game EVERY SINGLE TIME. I cannot believe that the developper(s) have the audacity to call this a demo, id say an early pre-alpha, at best. Also, on this recording, we can see that the game almost crashed when I tried to press R, for no reason.
did you read the description?
add the game to your steam library, and try configuring it. this is a known bug.
I S-ranked all songs, but after S-ranking (with 3D mode) Grease Poppin', all other songs show as A-rank. S-ranked them again but still shows A-rank, with the high score stopped at 1650. This might just be because 3D mode is still a work in progress, but I'm wondering if my actual scores are still saved somewhere in the game file.
ratio
I like rhythm games and I liked it so much that I s-ranked all of the songs. I'm really looking forward towards the next update!
Proof
looks like fnf
I hope this game kills fnf. And the artstyle is similar to Rhythm Heaven, there is NO way it's similar to fnf, the gameplay is just Parrapa The Rapper but enchanced. Not every rhythm game is similar to fnf just because it's animated.
fnf is already dead as hell lmfao
Both yes and no
didn't ask your opinon btw
me when Tonton Paon (EmmaRibbit) didnt ask for my opinion:😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😥
oh my god a kid on itch io why am i not surprised
Overall Solid game! I just have a small problem: every time I minimize the game to do some stuff like adjusting my recording stuff and come back, the game somehow disables my GPU then blue screen after a few min. I want to know if other people also experienced this or is it just me xD
When I play the game I sucked and I was on easy mode and when I went to Nami's stage on my windows computer, it would sometimes have the buttons being one spot, it just overlay each other, and when I got to a certain point, it would have a pacific pattern and I would hit it correctly and it would say that I was missing notes. Great game overall 🎮💕😁🎉