Last week, as part of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy‘s Japanese launch, Square Enix released the tie-in promotional game, Social Theatrhythm. In this flash game, you create a character and then join up with three Twitter or Facebook friends to play a co-op version of Theatrhythm.
Of course by “play” I mean “do nothing”. After choosing your party and who you want to fight, everything is automatic. Oh sure, it looks and sounds like you’re playing Theatrhythm, but clicking the mouse will do nothing to effect what your character’s hits and misses. The game actually says that you don’t need to do anything — the rhythm game bit is all automatic.
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory was almost a game in the Theatrhythm franchise according to a newly-translated interview with the game's producer and directors.
A new interview with Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Director Tetsuya Nomura, Co-Director Masanobu Suzui, and Producer Ichiro Hazama reveals many of the upcoming details about this new game. Melody of Memory will feature very different gameplay than what fans of the franchise would expect, but it has a lot in common with another one of Square Enix's franchises: Theatrhythm.
Lol okay..sure as heck looks and feels like a mee-too template based rhythm game (regardless of how your consumer gamer brain thinks). All that name dropping and “history lesson” took this article to new realms of “techraptor does not make any money doing this anyway”. Just consider that. You do this crap for free. Winning.
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In "Social Theatrhythm flash game" all you do is invite a friend, and watch while the game plays it self and winner is determined randomly, you dont need to press anything.
Why does SE think games which play itself (e.g FF13's auto battle feature, and this), is an innovation? and is fun?
Its a casual title. Sure it could be considered to be exploitive of the fanbase, looks dumb with no actual gameplay, but its just a casual game. If Square's going this way then fine. Just don't expect any of my money.
Even for something like this - especially for something like this.
Just when you think you couldn't get any worse then FF13 "Auto/Do nothing" bits