Rhythm games are the perfect "Easy to pick up, HARD AS FUCK to master" thing

Honestly nothing shook me harder than playing Project DIVA and then attempting DDR in the arcade for the first time. (With a couple of kids who are already really good at the game watching and judging me behind my back too 😭)

I actually think Taiko is MUCH easier to pick up than anyone thinks! The easy charts are genuinely very beginner friendly, and theres plenty of room for intermediate play before mastery. It's a lot less expensive and awkward to start than DDR.

How to get good at music games: 1. Practice Gg ez

5:33 just wanna mention that Sound Voltex and beatmania IIDX also have their own official PC versions, which are called Sound Voltex 3: Gravity Wars コナステ version and beatmania IIDX Infinitas.

3:33 The Dragon Warrior practicing his rhythm moves to defeat Tai Lung(Circa 2021)

I used to dance to Beat Saber videos in front of my desk like an idiot before I was able to buy VR. When I first tried for real at a convention, I realized my practice actually worked, lol. So happy I'm not alone!

The first rhythm game I played was Rhythm Heaven, and I know it doesn’t follow the same style as all of those other rhythm games but it helped me with my rhythm when I went on to play Beat Saber and Taiko No Tatsujin. I can’t also forget to mention Parappa the Rapper and Vib Ribbon, such fun rhythm games that I’ve played a few times.

IMO there's three categories of rhythm game,each having its own learning curve. Dance/physical like DDR,tap and drag (OSU,archea,muse dash) and hit/press (rhythm doctor,project DIVA,any PC rhythm game really)

If you want a way to do shadowing for Taiko, what i started out doing is just drumming on my desk with pencils. It isn’t quite the same as playing with an actual drum, but it helped me pick it up. :)

1. don't start with fnf lol

Beginner's guide to ddr pls! Like patterns and/or terminology. Started it during quarantine lol

something that helped me with rhythm games (at least project diva) is listening to the song itself without the game noises it helps me hear the patterns and rhythm of the song so that when i go into the game i just need to learn the chart, and i don't have to learn the flow of the song along with it

I started with fnf as with many other people. Started off at normal and was able to complete all the weeks, but couldn’t do hard. Eventually I practiced and practiced and was then able to do every week on hard, even milf. Now I’m just tryna get better so i can do hard mods like whitty, tricky, Matt, etc without relying on spamming. I only have to spam whenever there’s a lot of notes incoming, and I suck whenever 3-4 notes start coming on at the same time.

To get good, practice, practice, practice! But remember to take some time to rest, sometimes playing too many rhythm games that need ALOT of stamina and physical strength may tire you out! Its literally exercise

There straight up aren't any Taiko machines in my freaking continent, so I guess I'll have to stick to simulators, maybe buy one of the drums

You can always take out a loan for that piu machine and make all your friends who play with you pay for each session. Or you could buy a car. Honestly PIU and DDr cabinets makes taiko look cheap

Tips for beat saber: For the love of god practice your accuracy the better the accuracy the better your score. It’s also important to practice your speed. You will eventually reach the point where you can reach 93%’s on expert+ levels. Modifiers: Disappearing arrows: look ahead and see what the block is so when the block comes to you, you can tell what direction it is and hit it Speed modifications: Faster song is 20% faster Super fast is 50% faster Set the speed on practice mode and practice. Ghost notes: use colors that stand out from each other. Like different primary colors or, white and (color here) So these were the things that have helped me get good at the game and I hope they do for you to!

0:28 "Rhythm games are something only weebs play." Kids who play FnF: 👁👄👁

Project Diva was the first rhythm game series I played, which I found was pretty easy to get into.

this videos super old but i use this as reference a lot :) thanks so much !! some of these methods have made me improve RAPIDLY ☆

I would also add looking up techniques from streamers, wikis, or discord, to the list. ex. DDR becomes much easier to play when you realize that you don't need to hit the whole panel, which may not be obvious if you just play casually.

I literally train with just using youtube and my imaginary keyboard and play a song later on.

i play bandori as my first serious rhythm game, ive been playing since around early july and i can beat level 26s now at 10.4 speed. if youve played it, id love to hear your thoughts about it :)

i dont even know why but it felt pretty satisfying to see the 8 6 chart from PIU since i was expecting it, its such a good song

I was shadowing for ages because I lacked the money. I thought I looked like an idiot but I'm glad others actually do it as well 😅

Thanks, very explained tutorial!

I can do up to level 18 in ddr, been playing for around 4 years almost everyday. I can do up to level 42 on pop'n music, and been playing everyday for 2-5 hours for almost a year. (Will be a year October 10)

I used to fc up to 4 or 5 star maps on osu!mania, then for some reason I just stopped and haven’t touched it for 6 months. Now I see a few kids in my school playing rhythm games and that’s pretty much inspiring me to get back at it. Hope this video helps. I might update this.

pretty underrated channel

Wow nice Video, saw this in reddit

Getting my Sound Voltex controller (a trusty SVSE5, gonna upgrade to a Faucetwo soon) ended up being a great call, as in addition to K-Shoot/USC it can also get the job done for a bunch of other games of that type. Use mine to also play Muse Dash and Project Diva, and could probably use it for Taiko and Clone Hero drums in a pinch. Experience wouldn't be 1-to1 on those last two, but if you're just looking to practice and want more feedback than shadowing then there you go. So yeah, don't hesitate to explore what games you can do with what equipment you have.

I just learnt I was shadowing, since I wanted to play chunithm so bad, but I didn't know of an arcade with it near me, so I just searched for charts online and played them using my mousepad as a controller, and today I'm finally checking if that practice worked

i have a tip that i use but its mentioned example: you imagine you’re playinng the song and trying to hit the notes, it helps. :D

Before I bought Project Diva on the PS Vita, I practiced with a PS2 controller while watching YT videos of the game. Really helped.. As soon I I bought the game I could already play the hardest difficulty.

Being a musician helps a lot but sometimes i have smooth brain moments and i mess up 😂

Good video

Missing the most important thing Have a sense of rhythm, which some people just don't have.

I love the switch version of taiko no tatsujin as an entry level rhythm game! I’m a total beginner and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t played one before. I tried project diva on my boyfriends switch and it made my head hurt it’s way easier to just keep track of two inputs as a way to focus on building up your rhythm skills

Great video! I didn't even know that I was shadowing before I learned about the term. I play taiko, and used to do it with a pair of chopsticks and a pillow before I got my drum controller. Can confirm that it does work! Naturally the transition from pillow to drum is shocking for a while, but it's easy to adapt to once you've trained with reading and recognizing patterns. I really appreciate you putting out this guide for players approaching the genre. The mastery put into learning rhythm games tends to go overblown (and understandably so!)- I assure it's easier than a lot of people make it out to be, it's worth remembering that everyone good at a game used to suck at some point too. I just hope the rhythm game community grows to become more welcoming in favor of any player interested in it, especially newer players and players that prefer to play casually. As someone who mains osu!taiko over other taiko sims, the elitism among taiko players is baffling to me, as much as the reasons for disliking it are pretty fair and reasonable. Still, rhythm games are one of my favorite genres of games, and it's one of my favorite ways to celebrate music in general as a fan. Great stuff!

Highly recommend the Project DIVA series - more content-rich than most rhythm games and on many platforms 🥰

Dancerush pros got insane moves

As a Project Diva player, there's a pretty substantial difference between console and arcade. Last year I went to a Round 1 for the first time in my life (we don't have one in my home town), and they had a Project Diva machine. Thankfully, nobody there was into that weeb shit, so I got to be on it most of the time. Boy, was that an experience. First off, it's all Japanese, so unless you know the menus by heart, can read Japanese, or are just REALLY fast at understanding which song is which, you might just run out the timer before finding a preferred song. Next, the layout is really different from a controller, which is understandable. Going from Switch to Arcade was a super rough transition for my first few songs, but then I got the hang of it, and then to add insult to injury had to compensate for a button that had some weird lag on it for some reason, it might have been a bit broken. Luckily there were two machines right next to each other, so I shifted over and had a MUCH better time. I'd really love to invest in one of those dope arcade controllers, but I just can't afford one. One day...

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I’ve never loved rhythm games, but I tried ddr in the arcade for the first time today and it’s actually really fun (I played on the easiest setting possible and played with my brother lol)

what i neve rget with these communities is how they view these "simulators" as nothing more than "simulators" when they have virtually infinite content and diffculty but everyone keeps spending a fortune to play the same 20 songs over and iver... it boggles my mind, really

Sad that I can't find any Taiko no Tatsujin arcades in my country.

For staircases on 4k games I used to angle my hand so that one finger on each hand would hit a little bit before the other and then just mash each side like you would with two notes on each side

Infinitas and exceed gear kona Are getting viable to play now. Defo another fine way to play!

I think that another key point to getting good at rhythm games is the mental

Imagine if you have 2 more legs so the dance pad thingy is ez for you

I am Project Diva veteran...thought that Taiko wouldn't be that much of a deal at least in hard (not oni) difficulty. So I downloaded demo for it on switch. Fingers were hurted. I also tried Groove Coaster, but controls are too confusing, not much suited for gamepad...at least not so intuitive.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

when I was playing GH3 as a kid I was definitely struggling When doing Undyne the Undying on Undertale (A boss that was some weird hybrid of DDR Audica and FNF despite it being before the 3rd one) I was No Hitting the "Rhythm" parts but my goodness those Hexagons in Phase 3 (The always Red Phase) sucked So I'm starting to improve on Reaction times which was my weak area in that category (Might be able to Do "Rock n Roll All Night" or "School's Out" On Easy in GH3 now)

Its come to a point when im going to the arcade 5 times a week

my first game was djmax and then i moved on to pop'n music. it's a great way to spend hours on something and ignore your issues at home

What an absolutely beautiful, compact and comprehensive guide for beginners As someone who’s been into rhythm games for years now, I agree with all the points here I’m actually creating a rhythm game archive for people to access and find out more about the world of rhythm games which includes an appendix including guides and an index of rhythm terms, would you mind if I linked this video on the site?

Thanks for making this video!, know I realized rhythm games aren’t for me.

they certainly are intimidating. but if you find a song/beat you like its game over. beat mania X has some super eurodance songs and its just fun. still at easy level and alot of practice is needed.

the ltek pad is a great affordable ddr arcade pad

Been playing MaiMai Dx+ for 5 months, in my currency spent 6.4m over time, a total of 404 total plays until today, 13.5k rating, and almost s'ed freedom dive on master.

When i started playing maimai i started on advance and 4.5 speed and the song i did is called くらべった子 i think

I only like the last second of this video. That face, man!

I don't know where else to ask this and have no idea if anyone still reads the comments here, but one of my main issues with rhythm games has been that the jump up from like the just above average tier, whatever it may be called, I think it's like expert or something on MaiMai for example, to master is so difficult. When I've played Muse Dash I would go up to a more difficult chart on a song that I liked, and there were way more difficult patterns on it that I had no idea how to read or even approach doing. And if I went back down to a lower level song I wouldn't ever see those patterns again, so there's no way to practice. Just feels like there's an abrupt difficulty spike and no way to work myself up to it.

I would generally consider myself an Intermediate rhythm game player, generally I can start most rhythm games with intermediate to expert level tracks depending on the complexity if the mechanics, but I have never taken a significant amount of time to master an arcade rhythm game before.

Oh my god I've been pretending to play beat saber in front of a big screen tv for a while, I knew it wasn't for nothing

Me, who ended up playing colorful stage on their ipad as their first proper rhythm game: CLAW FORMATION! GO!

I tried Friday night funking on easy mode and I couldn’t pass the third song on EASY MODE That’s when I found out I SUCK at ANY RYTHM GAME

Bold of you to asume I have money to go to Dave and busters to play ddr and have people not let me play

I mean, practice works just gotta be patient. Took me 120 hours to get where I am in Project Diva and I have just taken on Pump It Up and am slowly getting better.

Alright, gonna start practicing to be able to play project diva (just maybe)

rythm fighting racing AND claw machines are the gods of arcade

I started to play cythus

I was able to nearly fc 30 difficulty songs in Quaver, wish I didn't give up and kept trying to get better.

Thank you since Im only good at certain rhythm games rhythm games and 4 key rhythm gamrs are just the worst for me

For Jubeat there is Jubeat Analyser! ;)

Because I'm poor, and also because my city has so little in the way of arcade rhythm games, I pretty much just play the simulators and free mobile rhythm games... That said I DID buy a cheapo dance mat for Stepmania (it already broke, I'll get another one later lol) a pocket voltex for K-Shoot, USC and also Stepmania, and a JKOC for Lunatic Rave 2 and Beatoraja, so that's where my money went lol (Can't afford the big chonker controllers) Also still looking into getting (or making) a Pop'n controller for PMS, and maybe some more stuff for non-Konami games later... Oh and also I should get into the PS2 versions of IIDX and Pop'n once I actually have access to one...

Taiko no Tatsujin, Guitar hero and Rhythm Heaven Fever improved my sense of rhythm. Seriously,

fr thats exactly how I train for Wacca, I know damn well I look stupid as shit 💀

came onto youtube after taiko buipm got taken down :((((

shadowing

You didn't mention thet there are straight up, home console and/or pc rhythm games, suchas djmax respect v, osu!, ez2on,etc. Altough they may have an arcade somewhere these are definitely intended to play with controller/mouse/keyboard, and have the lowest barrier of entry, since all you need to do is buy/download the game and start playing.

My hands got turn into stone in 5 weeks and i want to play again but my doctor said dont trust it too hard i can only type in keyboards

Hello certified boomer/OG/oldhead here. I find the current link between rhythm games and weeb culture really off putting. Back in the day when I got into DDR, went to tournaments, and discovered the greater range of Bemani it really wasn't a given association. Not bashing those really into anime and japanese culture, I used to be as well, but it sucks that nowadays a lot of people who would probably love these games are never going to be exposed to them. Bemani belongs to gamers. It is a videogame. That crosses all interests and cultures. It's such a shame Konami gave up on western releases because that used to be how you got the hang of these games. Sure I dumped a large pile of quarters into a Korean 3rd Mix V2 machine when I found DDR but then I was able to get the PS1 game to better learn the charts and flow. It's a huge hurdle that console editions of these games aren't a thing anymore. Now you either hope you live near a Round1 with some money to burn or have dedication to dive into user hostile simulators. The one saving grace of rhythm games is that there is a significant amount of skill transfer. If you get to a middle range skill level in any game you will be able to pick up anything pretty rapidly, it's just fighting through that first learning curve, very similar to fighting games. I think the best option might be DJMAX as it's on gamepass and has a variety of modes from 4 to I think 10 button modes of vertically scrolling button pressing. This will move over very well to most music games. Taiko is a fun game but I don't think it lends itself particularly well to the greater genre.

Is osu considered a rhythm game tho, also rip most rhythm games are mostly arcade machines, its too embarassing people watching me play these

I agree a lot with the "fake playing" I play project sekai thwe most but im trying to get into arcaea (im too poor arcades are a never for me sadly) and I always look at yt videos and follow along

what's the song at 3:17 (the background audio)

7. Try coming up with different ways to play, Instead of “traditional” playing styles of said game, Try different ones, Sometimes mirrored charts help a lot { even though that’s NOT an example 😭 }

I'm playing ddr, both the pad and the game costed me only 20 bucks, so I'm good. All I need now is to get good 😅

1:01 when they get to the point

>It's not about hitting random notes *laughs in Stamina*

Been playing Wacca for like 2 months now and I can handle expert 11 and sometimes 11+ and hearing you say to shadow people or even levels I’m gonna start doing that now thank you ❤️

Tried maimai last week just hit the tutorial and few beginner song and now already fc a 6 and 7 sometimes there is a point where you always miss a beat like every. Single. Try. Is a good sign for stop, go home, and sleep also learn from mistake is playing a good role

personally? games like taiko, project diva, and the circle thing (idk the name) are a lot easier. i played the project diva arcade game after 3 years of mega mix and 2 months of megamix+, it’s pretty easy once you know where the buttons are

Where would I find Wacca chart views?

I have never seen an arcade machine in my life but I have hundreds of hours on rhythm games.

Well that was encouraging ive been trying tk get good at taiko and just got my set of hori drums and was feeling discouraged after being ass .

For the ye olde, "back in my day, we hit arrows on a metal pad 500 times" games, cardio and aerobic exercise outside of the game is almost a must unless you got money to burn on either a home pad or arcade and no one to annoy. I've neglected my cardio and lungs for a decade and a half and when I got back into rhythm games recently, I'd be drenched in sweat after a few basics in DDR and PIU because while the muscle memory is there, the training has gone by the wayside. You don't have to be a world class runner to get gud, but you have to be fairly comfortable with making as many steps as someone running a five-minute mile for the really hard stuff. Also, try to have fun and not get obsessed with scores, at least in the beginning. If you go into it wanting MFC on 18-footers and such, you're going to want to punch the machine the second you get a great. Relax, treat it like a casual gym session or a fun night out. Make little achievable goals outside of the grading system to make so that if you miss a step, you can at least know that you did something better today than last time. At least that's what I tell myself when I can bench 200 and have trouble staying upright for no bar 7s and 8s in DDR without tripping because I'm fat now at 5'8" and 160. 😢

man i want to try project sekai at arcade

Guitar Hero and the like will always be, in my opinion, the beat gateway rhythm game. If you showed Osu or DDR gameplay to your dad or somethint, he'd just not be able to comprehend it. Guitar Hero? It's just playing guitar, simple as 1 2 3. But then you go down the rabbit hole of the more difficult songs and WHOOPS! You beat TTFAF on expert. I myself started with Clone Hero, and that just got me into rhythm games for good.