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KH: Melody of Memory - DEMO - Releasing on October 15

Wispmetas

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The promissed demo is arriving on october 15.
It contains 6 songs, 4 solo stages and 2 Co-op stages it seems.

KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory DEMO Version

Try out the demo version of the first rhythm action game in the KINGDOM HEARTS series Experience the music of KINGDOM HEARTS like never before Melody of Memory features 20 characters, 140 music tracks, and online VS multiplayer mode. Explore the music and memories from the KINGDOM HEARTS series...
store.playstation.com

Get KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory DEMO Version (International) | Xbox

Try out the demo version of the first rhythm action game in the KINGDOM HEARTS series!* *The demo version features 4 Field Battle Music Stages and 2 Co-op Music Stages for a total of 6 playable songs. Play data and records will not be saved.
www.microsoft.com
 
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Chaserjoey

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Details for the English version of the demo:

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KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory DEMO Version
English

Subtitles
KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory DEMO Version
Arabic
German
English
Italian
French
Spanish

File Size 579.93 MB

I'm jumping in to try it out in an hour. Excited to see how this plays.
 
Niosai

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I'm so stoked for this. Can't wait. Though, I wonder if the cutscenes on Switch are going to be pre-rendered while the PS4 versions will be in-engine? Or both pre-rendered.
 
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Wispmetas

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Niosai said:
I'm so stoked for this. Can't wait. Though, I wonder if the cutscenes on Switch are going to be pre-rendered while the PS4 versions will be in-engine? Or both pre-rendered.
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Yeah I'm interested to see how they handled KH 3's world music stages also, are we expecting them to use pre-rendered backgrounds there also?

Chaserjoey said:
I'm jumping in to try it out in an hour. Excited to see how this plays.
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Excited to hear impressions before I can dive into it later in the day!
 

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Excited for this. I should probably play Remind soon before the full thing drops.
 
Kurtikeya

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I kinda want all the demo songs to just be six versions of Dearly Beloved lol.
 
ZeroX

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Timing is definitely stricter than Theatrhythm but not as tight as more hardcore rhythm games

The mechanics feel adequately KH x rhythm game

The songs are:
- Welcome to Wonderland
- Hand in Hand
- The Rustling Forest
- Wave of Darkness I

The co-op songs are:
- Sinister Shadows
- All for One
 
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Shaoran Hyku

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If Nomura don't include a exclusive piece of lore in this demo that is not available in the full game I'll be sad.
 
ZeroX

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The charting is about on par with Theatrhythm, it'll just roughly follow the song. It's not like the Persona games where it's completely all over the place. Wave of Darkness was little odd at the start but the rest were fine.

My main complaint is that the game is a little visually noisy, like the Miku games. Sometimes there's a lot of enemies with different visuals and it can be tough to see things. The shift in camera perspective from Theatrhythm is a little rough. They clearly want the game to feel like you're attacking the enemies straight out of Kingdom Hearts but that doesn't always lend itself to clear note prompts. Especially when you've got lots of enemies in a row. The config menu is barebones, I hope they add stuff like lowering the background brightness, making visual prompts bigger, etc.

Also all of the songs are in-engine. There seems to be a selection menu to change your party, but you can't access it. You're stuck with Sora/Donald/Goofy and Riku in co-op.
 
salromano

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No one wanted to link the actual source for some reason, so here:

KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory DEMO Version

Try out the demo version of the first rhythm action game in the KINGDOM HEARTS series Experience the music of KINGDOM HEARTS like never before Melody of Memory features 20 characters, 140 music tracks, and online VS multiplayer mode. Explore the music and memories from the KINGDOM HEARTS series...
store.playstation.com

Get KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory DEMO Version (International) | Xbox

Try out the demo version of the first rhythm action game in the KINGDOM HEARTS series!* *The demo version features 4 Field Battle Music Stages and 2 Co-op Music Stages for a total of 6 playable songs. Play data and records will not be saved.
www.microsoft.com
 
Pierogi Mage

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ZeroX said:
Timing is definitely stricter than Theatrhythm but not as tight as more hardcore rhythm games

The mechanics feel adequately KH x rhythm game

The songs are:
- Welcome to Wonderland
- Hand in Hand
- The Rustling Forest
- Wave of Darkness I

The co-op songs are:
- Sinister Shadows
- All for One
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How do the co op songs work? Do you have to have 2 people to play them?
 
ZeroX

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I wonder if there will be Critical difficulty because Proud isn't that hard

The main problem seems to be differentiating notes, it's hard to see them coming because enemies themselves are the notes and often it's hard to tell if they're double notes, or the timing of multiple in a row so it might become more of a memorization thing which I don't love

Chaosthorn said:
How do the co op songs work? Do you have to have 2 people to play them?
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Yes you need 2 people

It plays like the normal game except there's two people at once
 
Pierogi Mage

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ZeroX said:
I wonder if there will be Critical difficulty because Proud isn't that hard

The main problem seems to be differentiating notes, it's hard to see them coming because enemies themselves are the notes and often it's hard to tell if they're double notes, or the timing of multiple in a row so it might become more of a memorization thing which I don't love


Yes you need 2 people

It plays like the normal game except there's two people at once
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So if you dont have someone to play with youre SoL? That seems pretty awful
 
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ZeroX said:
It's just a two player mode, presumably in the full game those songs will also be available in single player, I don't know why you'd want to play co-op without them. It plays just like the normal game
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Thats what im wondering if you can play them without needing a 2nd player
 
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ZeroX said:
I wonder if there will be Critical difficulty because Proud isn't that hard

The main problem seems to be differentiating notes, it's hard to see them coming because enemies themselves are the notes and often it's hard to tell if they're double notes, or the timing of multiple in a row so it might become more of a memorization thing which I don't love
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Pretty sure there is no critical for this one. Do you get to select the styles as well? In the interview they said "performer style" is more challenging since it require more buttons at once. So I assume Performer style + Proud mode is the hardest atm?
 
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Xenosaga said:
Pretty sure there is no critical for this one. Do you get to select the styles as well? In the interview they said "performer style" is more challenging since it require more buttons at once. So I assume Performer style + Proud mode is the hardest atm?
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You do get to choose the style but I haven't tried it yet, just default controls
 
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Okay I tried Performer style. I don't get the timing of the additional buttons. It's not like normal ones. Sometimes you press them really early? Sometimes they just don't seem to respond? It's confusing.

edit: oh okay I get it you can only hit them if you have a combo going. if you drop your combo the performer inputs just do nothing. it certainly makes things harder I guess

also demo progress isn't saved
 
Rob

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I can't seem to get the PS4 version of the demo, but I'm downloading the XBO version right now.
 
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Wispmetas

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Is this out on Nintendo Switch? I can't find it, pretty strange.
 
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Chaserjoey

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I tried co-op mode but I live by myself so I was attempting to use two controllers at the same time.

I'm surprised I got as high as B on that.
 
Papertoonz

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Man the jumps are kinda messing with me, gonna take abit to get used to them

Chaosthorn said:
Thats what im wondering if you can play them without needing a 2nd player
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one of the Demo songs is All for One which you can see it being played in Single player in one of the trailers so it's safe to say that won't be an issue
 
7Suna

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Xbox already out!

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Wispmetas

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Watching someone attempting wave of darkness on proud, and it looks insanely difficult.
 
BPHusker

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I wish this was Theatrhythm gameplay and not what they changed the gameplay into.

Also, can we get a Theatrhythm collection for Switch? Lol
 
gig

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Was there ever any word on this coming to PC? Not port begging, just curious.
 
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