Players of the standard rhythm based gameplay loop will adapt with easy, if carrying over their skillset from such elaborate musical titles like the Persona Dancing line-up, but for newcomers this will indeed be a fascinating excursion outside their comfort zone. The directional based indicators on screen are quite simple to follow, with red, yellow or green displaying a timed reference for each note to be executed in certain fashion. Red being a basic button press, yellow for an analogue stick direction and green will pursue a lengthy note hold for the player to follow, whether it be a straight line, or a crescendo that climaxes with multiple notes in one melody.

Performing chain combos will execute critical hits on enemies during battle, encouraging players to replay each track – as if we needed anymore reason to – with very minimal gauges representing the leader of your party during battle. HP is generally replenished by successful input strings with the aid of party members to back you, along with coinciding button combos that deliver a massive tag team blow, or special attack that is displayed on the bottom right corner of the screen. Levelling each party member is part of the RPG element of the title, and is mostly mandatory to clearing more of the heavy hitting battles later in each respective track listing. Your success range will be rewarded with a letter grade from F, A, S, up to SSS Rank, and will display each characters HP, Strength, Magic, Spirit, Agility, Luck and the additional points earned toward each.