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SOUND SHOOTING!! – RHYTHM STG – Action Game Review
SOUND SHOOTING!! – RHYTHM STG is a Action/Entertainment/Music game from Masaya Mukae, first launched in 13th April 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 123+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes SOUND SHOOTING!! – RHYTHM STG Stand Out
Rhythm game plus 2D shooter!
Great for rhythm action and shooting game fans!
So, is it a rhythm game or a shooting game? Play and check it out for yourself!
With Monica, the clever and Liz, the wild, and to the cheerful music, beat the 8 bosses!
Get ready to enjoy both the rhythm and shooting elements of the game!
—Rhythm game part—
Plain and simple! Easy to play for music game beginners!
Tap or hold the notes falling down the screen as the music plays. Pretty basic for rhythm game fans!
There are 3 difficulty levels (NORMAL, HARD, EXTREME) depending on the song you choose.
Whether you are a beginner or an expert, choose your perfect level to play.
—Shooting part—
Easy 2DSTG – you can move around and shoot with one finger!
Enemies flying around and tanks crawling on the ground, fixed artilleries aiming at you, gimmicks,
med-sized aircrafts firing, and huge machines shooting thick laser all over your screen!
This is so-called the 2D horizontal scroll shooting!
Get the power-up items to strengthen, and wide shots, missiles, lasers, spread bombs for maximum power!
During high-tension mode, you can turn the enemy bullets into score items (coins) by shooting!
Shoot from close at any heavy-duty machines or boss characters to beat them! You know the rules if you are a shooter!
Just like the rhythm game part, choose from three difficulty levels (NORMAL, HARD, EXTREME) in each stage, depending on your expertise!
As you level up, shoot and fire with all you’ve got! This is so-called the BULLET HELL!!
—Other Parts—
Unlock new music as you win the MB by running and jumping in Melody Run (mini game)!
You can also keep skipping to unlock songs.
You can shop for items using MB!
Shop to effectively play Melody Run and unlock faster, or gain lives for Melody in the shooting part!
SKILL POINTS will be given based on the score obtained for each song (stage)!
Your PLAYER SKILL will be the total value of the top 30 songs with high SKILL POINTS!
You will be given a rank according to your PLAYER SKILL! Your goal is "KAIDEN"!
Compete your PLAYER SKILL with online players from all over the world!
All characters have full voices including the enemies!
The unique and adorable character voices will keep you excited throughout the game!
—Voice Cast—
MELODY :Nanahira
MONICA :Megumu Morino
LIZ :Mafuyu Hiiragi
SYNTH :Megumu Morino
CLASSICA :Megumu Morino
GARAGE :Mafuyu Hiiragi
RUTILE :Chiroru Ooyama
ASHE :Mafuyu Hiiragi
FOLCLORE :Mafuyu Hiiragi
ELECTRA :Chiroru Ooyama
DIZ :Chiroru Ooyama
Side Character:Megumu Morino, Mafuyu Hiiragi, Chiroru Ooyama
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, SOUND SHOOTING!! – RHYTHM STG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th March 2020
Recent improvements include:
Added support for updating App Store pricing table
Download & Availability
SOUND SHOOTING!! – RHYTHM STG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get SOUND SHOOTING!! – RHYTHM STG on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is so fun and we like it so much.
Just wanted to let you know that we love this game, the aesthetic, gameplay and everything is so unique and cool, you did a great job on this game.
Its a shmup with a rhythm game stapled on. It shouldnt work but it does and its pretty addictive we paid for it and it cost only $5 USD for the whole thing. Its actually too cheap.
We wish ppl would talk abt it some more!! And wish that they had updates too. We absolutely love this game.
This is a perfect game. We really dont know how else to describe this game, so Ill just leave it at that. Play it for yourself, its totally worth it.
We love this game its so cute!!! We hope youll make more in the future.
There was sound and shooting SOOOO SEXY!!!! Ty :).
We absolutely LOVE the concept of this game and we enjoy playing it just as much!! Its very easy to understand simple controls and mechanics the songs are very upbeat energetic and fun to listen to^^ and for the most part the game works well! We say for the most part because during the rhythm parts of this game sometimes the game wouldnt sense our taps, its not unplayable just a little buggy with the taps other than that we didnt have any other bugs with the game! We would definitely recommend this game! ^_^.
We see this game has not been updated in 2 years which is a bit upsetting :( this game is really fun, we enjoy touhou and other rhythm games so this was nice! We'd love to see the publisher getting active on it again :D however, there is something we would like to be fixed. The fact that you can see the hold notes under the hitbox even when we're hitting the note is a little annoying :( if the game gets updated again we would love to see that. This game could be really big and perfect with a little polishing, and with rhythm games especially mobile ones getting popular again we think it would have a big chance at that.
Reminds us a lot like Touhou, the controls are easy and the instrumentals are catchy, the layout is easy to adapt to and we plan to play this game more often.
You have an engaging shooter that goes into rhythm game mechanics for certain boss fights. Having an older or smaller iPhone makes that part a bit difficult but the story is fun and the main character is super genki and that makes up for the minor gripes. We have not been prompted to pay for any bonus items or to unlock anything, which is quite rare nowadays.
Pls its been 2 years we need more anime shooter rhythm games.
The game is very fun and cool! Shooting and rhythm?! Wow it cant get even better than this. Manu difficulties u can choose and boosts for ur character. Absolutely amazing.
We like guns and anime girl good game.
We love everything about the game but the one thing we didnt like was that it only tells us that we are sexy when we get around 98 to 99 percent of combo in the rhythm section even though we are sexy all the time (joke).
Coolest game Ive ever played on the AppStore.
Man we love us some rhythm shootin yeehaw.
Its like Touhou combined with BanG Dream and it is very good.
This game is absolutely amazing.
SO ITS REALY FUN UH NOT DURE WHAT TO SAY BUT ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITW GAMES.
We lov this game so much its ver6 yummy.
This is the best game ever we think they should get a update this gam.
For us a rhythm game dude its hard to press the circle but great game.
Awesome, great combination of a shooter and a rhythm game. Only thing we dont like is that theres some songs you can only play on certain days but other than that, highly recommend.
This is a must play if you like music and 2D Shooters.
Wasnt expecting too much out of this, was pleasantly surprised! We had so much fun playing this game, only request are more free songs.
If you like pump it up's music this will suit your tastes, if you enjoy touhou but aren't great at it- you'll love this and if you like over energized silliness this is the game for you. We adore this game! It's engaging and entertaining and it has great music and characters! The only thing we don't like- that was mentioned in another review is the clunkiness of the rhythm game. We think the transition is fine but the actual rhythm game feels bland and doesn't register when you tap at times. It's not unplayable though and doesn't ruin the game. We absolutely love it!!!! Get this for sure.
Love the game its cute and fun.
Never wouldve thought that bullet hell and rhythm games would be combined, but somehow it winds up working and being a heck of a lot of fun. Not sure about long term progression yet, but its fun to sit down and bang out a few stages whenever we have a break at work.
This is a great game because of the challenges that are there and shooter. This game has our two favorite things in it.
Sound Shooting is what happens when you Frankenstein Touhou and Arcaea into one game, and it works SO well. The main game is a danmaku where you play as the pictured pink-haired Melody, fighting robots and bosses and avoiding bullets and whatever else might get in your way. The shooting is automatic, so all you have to worry about is aligning yourself with whatever youre fighting and dodging their bullets. Like in Touhou, Melody has a dot on her belly which will make you take damage if you get hit there. Luckily, you can get hit several times before dying, and it shows your health in the corner. Also, the closer you get to the enemy, the more damage you do, so youll want to stay as close as possible while making sure not to get hit. The rhythm aspect shows up during the boss fights, where youll play a short rhythm mini-game by tapping the circles when they hit the line to the rhythm. The timing is very tight and takes a bit to get used to, but once you figure out the timing youll be able to glide through it. Once completing the mini-game, the boss will be defeated. When the level is over, you get to play another tiny fun mini-game called Melody Run where you can collect discs for new songs. All you have to do is tap to jump when the discs are higher in the air. The bosses also drop upgrades for Melody that strengthen her range and bullet-fire. And in some levels, Melodys friends will join and help fight alongside her! Overall, this game is really fun, we can see ourselves replaying it even after Ive beaten it. It has a lot of songs from varying music genres to play (Trancecore, Glitch Hop, Electro Tech, etc,) we dont think Ive discovered the apps other features yet, but so far, as a Touhou and rhythm game fan, Im in love. Keep it up, devs! (Also, Melodys voice acting is absolutely ADORABLE. Engrish!).
We honestly love the music in this game and the Art is so cute! The gameplay is Super ADDICTING! However, we have issues with how the UI is for the Rhythm Portion of the game. Its hard for us to Tell Where our inputs are going to be, we wouldnt mind some indication on where each note will fall. Other then that small personal Nitpick. We highly recommend this game!!! Loads of free songs.
Really fun concept of combining both danmaku games and rhythm games! The danmaku parts are challenging but fun, and the rhythm game parts don't have any timing issues. The characters are cute, and we hope we get to know them a bit more than generic STG characters. Our only complaint is that the switch between the danmaku and rhythm modes feels a bit unpolished. Not that it's not intuitive, but the rhythm part is not nearly as clean and exciting as the shooting part. Some other minor issues are that the voices and sfx eclipse the music greatly by default, so we have to turn them way down and the music way up, which is not a good thing in a game that relies so heavily on the music. The game seems like it's getting updated regularly, so we're looking forward to seeing it improve in the future.
This is actually a really cool game with a good concept, its really fun, we just hope that more free songs would be included.
The only reason Im giving a 5 star review is, because it does so well to blend two of our favorite genres together. Ive only beat the first boss so far but Im sure our expectations will not be disappointed.
Its a good game. The shooting and rhythm game elements blend really well. The shooting sections are challenging (in a good way). The musics pretty good. Our only complaint is about dual notes in the rhythm game sections. Theres no way to tell the difference between a single note and two notes coming at once.
Awesome game that combined both our favorite genres. Bullet Hell and rhythm games.
Having Alot Of Fun With This SHMUPZ.
This game is intense! Im literally sweating lol. Pre- ordered because we love unity chan action shooter. Spectacular graphics, great music, lots of polish. Even better then we expected it to be. We recommend using headphones. Awesome game! Thank you! Timing seemed a tiny bit off at first but think it was just us being horrible at rhythm. Anyway you can adjust timing from settings. That helped.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.7
- Size: 262.24 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Masaya Mukae
Last updated: 13th March 2020 | Genre: Action, Entertainment | Developer: Masaya Mukae