Beat Souls Review (Xbox Series S)
For this Beat Souls Review, we break it down with Beat Souls! A high-speed rhythm game where you have to avoid obstacles and collect the titular Beat Souls to wrack up a stylish combo and go for the high score! Lay the Rhythm Yokai to rest with awesome dance moves as you put on a killer performance!
Beat Souls Review Pros:
- Nice pixel art graphics.
- 576.7MB download size.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- Rhythm action gameplay.
- Optional tutorial.
- You play as an avatar and have speakers on either side of you and it’s these Otomo you hit the beats with.
- Obstacles will pop up and you need to avoid them whilst hitting the beats.
- The player level is determined by the amount of exp/score you earn and unlocks new modes.
- Two difficulties normal and hard.
- Each difficulty shows your best score, best combo, and evaluation rank.
- Every level is a song and has a name, artist name, and BPM.
- You can create your own playlist.
- Finish a level on normal to unlock hard difficulty.
- When browsing levels the song will play.
- You lose health when missing beats or hitting obstacles.
- Health can be picked up via hearts on the tracks.
- Can replay levels.
- Each level has two bonus objectives which are full combo and no damage runs.
- Controls – you can move left and right, jump over obstacles, and have the Otomo go left and right of you to bunch up.
- Bite-sized levels.
- Very easy load of achievements.
- Visual effects settings – catch an effect, Lane effect, wave effect, and background effects.
- 45 stages to unlock and play.
Beat Souls Review Cons:
- Music is an acquired taste.
- Small text in the tutorials.
- A very busy screen.
- The track you play on is small and claustrophobic.
- The tutorial is split into lessons and it feels redundant.
- Your actions are not in line with the music or serve any additional effects to the song.
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Beat Souls:
Developer: ZOO Corporation
Publisher: eastasiasoft
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