Most of them are instrumental and don’t feature any vocals. It’s great! There are a splattering of different genres of music featured in the game’s songs. It’s not enough to say that the music in Rhythm Doctor is good. Trust me though, even on the lowest difficulty, this is a hard game to beat. Thankfully, the game offers accessibility options like easier difficulty options. Some songs will play visual tricks on you (like the aforementioned window getting minimized), and sometimes there’s so much intensity happening on-screen that it’s confusing as heck. It’s hardcore and super challenging, despite what the one-button system may imply. You can check out the boss stage with the minimized window zooming around in the gameplay video below by skipping to the 17:45 mark:Īll that said, Rhythm Doctor is most definitely not for anyone new to the rhythm game genre. The boss stages are the best parts of the game, and they’ll leave the biggest impressions. It provided a refreshing visual perspective and unique gameplay experience unlike anything else that I’ve experienced in a rhythm game. All of this happened while I have to keep tapping to the beat as the song kept on playing. Imagine my surprise when one of the boss stages minimized the game into a small windowed mode and it proceeded to zoom across my screen like a screensaver gone rogue. I can see that the developers had fun designing these boss stages because they are genuinely insane. There is one boss stage for each act, so there are four in total so far (there will potentially be more since the game is still in Early Access). If that’s not crazy enough, the biggest highlight of the game is the boss stages. Some levels forced me to keep with the heartbeat of not one, but several patients at the same time. So far, the game is made up of four acts with various levels (each of which represents a patient, or song to complete), and each act has its own unique gimmicks. This kept me on my toes, as the tempo and beat would abruptly change when a nurse shouts out the cue. For instance, every patient has unique illnesses based on complex music theory: polyrhythms, hemiolas, irregular time signatures, and more.īasically, one patient might have an irregular heartbeat that keeps changing on the fly. While you’ll still be pressing the same single button each and every time, the game spices up the gameplay with additional tweaks to the formula.
The game’s core mechanic is this slam/tap your spacebar in perfect time on the seventh beat of the music, but it gets a lot more complicated than that. I discovered that by myself (since the game didn’t outright tell me that I could use a controller instead), but I was relieved to find out that I could do so since I (and many other gamers) sometimes much prefer a controller, especially in a game that requires vigorous and relentless tapping like this. That’s right only one button, and that’s either the spacebar on your keyboard or any one of the main face buttons on your controller (mine was the A button on an Xbox controller). What distinguishes Rhythm Doctor from other rhythm games is that it only utilizes a single button. Every patient that you encounter in the game has their own personal issues and story to uncover. This special treatment involves defibrillating patients’ hearts in sync with their heartbeats in order to heal their mental and physical illnesses. In Rhythm Doctor, players assume the role of an intern, who is expected to help two doctors heal their patients using a special treatment. A one-button rhythm game? Wouldn’t that be too easy? I’m here to tell you that it’s definitely not, and this game from Malaysian developer 7th Beat Games is certainly one of the most unique rhythm games I’ve ever played in my life. Quickly switching between Cole's songs in the SVT ward will cause his sprite to stop and hyperventilate.At first, Rhythm Doctor may sound overly simplistic.Cole is shown to play a keyboard and guitar.He is, so far, the only patient to use skipshots.In artwork, he’s one of the smaller characters, and on the Rhythm Doctor banner, Cole is seen to be smaller than many of the characters. It’s a common joke in the Rhythm Doctor community that Cole is short.
RHYTHM DOCTOR SKIN
In the game, it’s seen as a dark skin tone while official artwork gives him has a light skin tone.
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