Lanota - Music game with story 9+

The game is beautifully illustrated and game play is well thought out with a few unique twist than other ring based rhythm games. Ultra and master lvls are challenging without feeling impossible. The story is simple, but cute if that sort of thing interest you. I love the mix of Celtic, EDM, and Dubstep. Though I think the initial 3 chapters has a few too many slower to my liking, but I get why they choose such a playlist to start. Great value for the number for songs included with the price tag.

The map/menu/UX could use a little tweaking in my opinion. For like a day and a half I was upset that $2 only gave me 4 songs and they were pressuring me for expansions $4 each (5 songs each). Once I figured out the chapter/map thing I found there were a number of songs just waiting for my tap-itchy fingers. If a map is cleared and the next is unlocked just give me a button on the main map to go to the next area instead of backing out to the book menu > map > and then selecting a chapter. Also an option to view all unlocked songs to select and play would be nice, other than using the menu to select a chapter then selecting a song.

Love the main game, but it won't let me. Buy the side stories, if any developer reads this please fix it.

Edit: after all of the updates. There are way to many dlc’s to purchase. I understood when there were only two or three, but now so many in app purchases it feels like they’re putting profit over playing. When the game came out years ago I was impressed by how much the game gave you for a one time purchase, but now it feels like they’re putting profit first. I had to lower my rating by two stars to three because of this.

Edit: I thought about it for a while and I understand how much it must cost to both create music and remix music from others. It’s not the developers fault that music costs a lot. Still, try to put out story chapters more often in updates, because when your dlc is almost twice as large as your main series game, it doesn’t inspire much confidence for new players.

I love the dynamic circular playing field - it is one of the more satisfying setups I’ve come across. The story is lackluster, but I’m here for the gameplay so I’m not bothered. Let me say this, though - this is one ridiculously hard game if played on the master difficulty. Personally I love this, but new players should definitely not expect to reach the level 12 - plus charts until they have been playing rhythm games for a good while.
I do like that the devs seem to be catering to all skill levels, so all of the maniacs like me have more than 1-2 charts to play. Good job on that!