KickBeat Steam Edition

It's an interesting idea that feels incomplete. This is a standard push the buttons with the music rhythm game. instead of the note highway or scrolling indicators this title uses a radial format combined with a fighting game aesthetic. Fighters enter the combat zone and rotate around you until moving to strike from one of the four cardinal directions and you press the corisponding button to stop them. There are 3 enemy types, denoted by color, which indicate on or off beat and multi button attacks. That's all there is though, just press buttons with the beat. It can get quite challenging at the higher settings, but not in a enjoyable way, the complexity never evolves. You are able to import your own music into the game allowing for some customizable fun. The core soundtrack is a bit 10 years ago, and the story is a bit of goofy fun. For the asking price of $10 I feel like it's not a bad deal if you are looking for a simple rhythm game with a fun aesthetic. It does not stack up to the ...

KickButte Steam Edition is a good rhythm game. It's kicking my butte. Now I know why enV's songs from the ultimate butte game [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/244870/]Electronic Super Joy[/url] are in this game. Other songs are cool too, but ESJ's soundtrack is one of my favorites, so it's really nice to see it in KickButte. Oh, you can also play with your own songs. Buy it. Play it on normal difficulty. Then get your butte kicked on higher difficulties which are [strike]sometimes[/strike] always pretty insane.

If you're reading this you might be wondering: "What the hell is a Kickbeat?" Kickbeat is a rythym game where you press keys, timed with the music, so your character kicks people in the face. I like to call these games (FFR, Stepmania 1,2, Beatmanina) tap rythym games. Because there's no instrument or dance pad. It's meant to be played with a controller or keyboard. I personally had been waiting for a game like this to come around for a long time, that is to say, a tap rythym game where there's something more interesting to look at than just arrows flying by the screen. The production value feels very high to me for a $9.99 out of the gate priced game, it's really a big treat. It looks great, it sounds great, it plays tight and its got an interesting well written and well voiced storyline that plays out twice through the songs. It's got difficulty settings and customization options that allow you to jump right in but still eventually take off your training wheels as you go for huge...

I really liked the game by the first sight. I really wanted to like it even after I bought it and played a few fights. But I can't... KickBeat is a quite good-looking mixture of rhythm and beat'em up genres. In fact, even now, at the very beginning of the year 2019, you can't call rhythm/beat'em up mix project with better visuals, than we had in KickBeat in 2015. However... it's not so well both in rhythm and kicking butts. There goes my downvote: - first of all, let's talk about music. The game holds 24 tracks: some electromusic, some new wave rock and some rap. The player can add other music into freeplay, but have to unlock that option first. And no, you can't skip the tracks, mix them, line them in another order or anything. You have to beat them right one after another, even if you don't like the particular vibe... Get me right: some of the tracks of this game is in my own personal playlist. However, I, for instance, can't really stand the dubstep. While someone else wouldn't l...

if you've ever played with a hand-held game of Simon by milton bradley (and didn't rage afterwards), this game's for you. i like the concept of adding rhythm to the old MB idea but its required REACTION time to press buttons is TOO rigid. the slider on that built-in metronome doesn't allow you slack for syncopation either. remember, we're human beings, not machines... our timing is NOT digital --- this game should allow for a bit of syncopation like most modern karaoke console does for singers. i like it but I'm a bit torn. for now, as it is --- it's not worth $9... maybe $5.

This game had so much potential. The concept is good, the art is trippy, the music selection is cool, but is unplayable, and in multiple ways. Just minutes after purchasing was suffering of random crashes in the middle of a cutscene or song while playing and had to do multiple restarts of the app. Not to mention, the game has a really off timing. Yeah, sure, you can get "used to it" but it doesn't feel fair and no other quality rhythm game out there forces you to play like that, hell, I'd be better playing without any audio! As a seasoned veteran in all things DDR, PIU, beatmania, Guitar Hero and stuff, this was really a dissapointment, most of all coming from cool guys like Zen Studios, who I love for they pinball games. Next time, better put a sync button on the options or something, don't force people to play your way, make the game fluid, like it should. For now, it's an unplayable disaster and you would have much more fun playing Stepmania for free on your PC. Enjoy the money Z...

this game reminds me of the Keep the beat like games like Parapa the rappa back on the PS1 ah good times any way this game ROCKS the story is decent with nice art work the gameplay is solid with flashy graphics and simple and easy to understand controls and the Music just so Awesome HOWEVER this game has a rather high difficulty curve and the turtoral won't really help out much as this game has very fast pace gameplay and sadly it has some rather nasty Bugs one being and this is also a Recomendation to players DISABLE the Steam Overlay for this game unless you like the frame rate to drop every time you get an achevment and i also like to say something about the mode not fetured in other versions of this game the game mode where you can make your own stages up to me this is what i would call an expiermental add on simply due to the fact it would never ever reach the same qauality as the games main playlist but all in all if you like to kick some minion butt to the soun...

Good idea: Making a rhythm game where the beatmaps make sense and, if they're needed, visual cues are unobstructed. Bad idea: Making a rhythm game where the beatmaps seem to follow random elements and instruments of each song, sometimes changing multiple times throughout any one verse or chorus. A verse, for instance, could start following the drums on the downbeat, then suddenly switch to following the guitar riff, or the vocalists' phrasings, then switch for the bassline for some reason. Also, mae sure that the visual cues are obstructed and entirely difficult to follow with bad camera angles and full character models blocking the playfield. KickBeat is shitty and I didn't need to play it more than 15 minutes to realize that was $7 wasted.

There are alot of gripes about this game, and alot of things that hold it back, but it's important to understand what you're getting into here. First and foremost, I'll start with the bad. The game had alot of features cut. I'm sure the developers would have liked to add advanced track editing, more songs, more characters, more anything, really. It's a game that aspired to be the best, and while it's good, it fell short of staying in the spotlight due to the aforementioned issues. The good: Kickbeat features something that most rhythm games don't have, especially among those that try to bend genres to include a wider audience (I'm looking at you, Audiosurf). At its heart, it's a competitive game. It's a hard game. It's one of the few rhythm games out there that has a scoring system which means something. If you can six-star a song on master, you can post a video on Youtube, and and proceed to feel good about it. This isn't a game that you zone out and play. At least not if you want...

I wouldn't recommend this game to people who like to play rhythm games. Firstly the soundtrack that the game comes with is ok, it's not bad but it certainly isn't that great either, but this will most likely depend on your music tastes. The tracks tend to be a mix of techno, electronic with some rock/metal elements to them. It would seem that the ability to play your own music is a great asset of this game however this particular feature falls very short. This is due to the fact that when selecting a song to add to the game you have to go through a beat calulator process by which you manually tap spacebar to the rhythm of 3 different sections of the song. The beats per minute are capped at a certain level so you can't just go crazy with the system. Equally probably the most annoying thing is that you can add any track you like however if the track is longer than 6 minutes anything past the 6 minute mark will be cut off entirely. These 2 flaws don't really make the add your own music fe...