The Violinist

As an avid rhythm gamer AND violinist, I was excited for this game, and as fun as it was to go through this game, there were a lot of issues with this game. Bugs aside (this was made by a solo dev, so I completely understand), there are big issues with the charting/mapping for these pieces. For a game named "The Violinist", the charting doesn't always stay on the violin part. The Four Seasons has the biggest issue. It would have made more sense to follow the solo violin part, but the charting is just all over the place between concertmaster and solo violin. This leads to us missing on really cool parts and really makes the charting repetitive. Chords were charted when there were no chords. Chords weren't charted when there were chords. For the rhythm game parts, there are a lot of quality of life things that do not exist in this game. As this was made by a solo developer, I don't expect these things, but I should include it in this review. There are no settings to adjust offset. Th...

The game needs some updates as it currently feels unpolished. It would be great if the developer added feedback when you hit or miss a note. When playing a song, it doesn't fully capture the feeling of interacting with the notes. The gameplay needs more feedback and gratification for the player, and the angle of the violin on the screen feels a bit off. I'm not going to give this game a negative review, but a constructive one because I really like the idea and hope the developer keeps working to improve the game.

It's like Guitar Hero, but with violins and classical music. What are you waiting for? Buy it now!

As a violinist, this game is a welcome find! It is a little rough. A few bugs here and there, but I felt so seen and heard playing this game. None of that cheap-ass Guitar Hero shenanigans. No, no. Only the finest classical compositions here! Note: I don't hate Guitar Hero. I just wanna virtually shred to Vivaldi sometimes.

I really wanted this game to be fun as I play violin as a hobby. Rhythm games aren't hard to find anywhere, but this was the first violin based rhythm game I had ever seen and was pretty excited about it. Unfortunately it really let me down. [b]Kinda long review down here[/b] First of all, I want to address some bugs: [list] [*]As of now whenever you reopen the game all your scores on every song are reset. You keep your money and anything bought, thank goodness, but it is kind of annoying to lose score progress. I like to play in little spurts, so I want to remember what I played and what pieces I still need to work on. [*]I don't know if this is intentional, but if you don't go all the way back to main menu after a song, you don't get to retry the tuning minigame. You can say you want to do it, but it just gives you the score bonus you got last time you did it. [*]I'm unsure if it was all the time, but after playing one song and, again, not backing out to the main menu, every song I...

My biggest issue with the game is the ASDF controls by default. I expect to go UP in pitch when I hit my keys in fdsa order (like a violinist typically does). instead, the lower note is played on A and goes up to F. So the natural thing to do is to change the keyboard controls to change what would be normal right? well, bugs strike and you are unable to change keys to match what you are wanting. Refunding until the tiny white dots are fixed, the keymapping works properly, and i'm able to play this game more like a violinist and less like a piano.

I do not like the different colors per lane, and then the tiny af white balls coming in, on a slanted way too small area even. It makes the visibility and thus readability really horrible. Please add more customization options to how it can look. One of the biggest gripes I personally have when it comes down to rhythm games it when it's needlessly difficult due to poor visibility. I don't know why so many have this. It's not a fun challenge. It's bad. Challenge should lie in cool patterns that still align well with the music. Not this. You need to be able to see well what you gotta do. I for one have never seen a performer use music sheets with faded ink that is hard to even discern because it's more fun that way. It's just ridiculous. Skill isn't about being able to deal with poor circumstances like that. Nobody plays tennis with a broken racket either because oh that makes it more challenging. The challenge should lie in the gameplay. Not the fact I am giving myself a migraine tryi...

really bad game. there's so much about this game that is really awful but i'm gonna try to list everything anyways. basically no feedback when hitting notes. zero hit sounds. the most you get is a little sparkle and a rating will pop up depending on your timing. slide notes basically have zero visual feedback. about 80 percent of the screen is filled with useless shit and the note lane takes up a tiny fraction of the screen. the tuning minigame is the stupidest gimmick ever and after doing it once i skipped it after every song i did. it adds basically nothing and is not fun in the slightest. tons of shit isn't playable or maybe it is but i really don't know and couldn't tell what has or hasn't been implemented yet. pretty sure a lot of stuff isn't implemented yet though. specifically the "violin" mode, in the violin game. the one where you play the violin if that wasn't obvious btw. definitely getting a refund cause this game is dog crap!!!!!!!!!!!!