Start a band, and take on the world in this music industry simulation/role-playing game. Success doesn't come without hard work, and making connections in your local music scene is the only path to stardom.
Very Positive
6 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Y | — | Y |
| Chinese (Simplified) | — | Y | Y |
| Korean | — | Y | Y |
| Spanish (Spain) | — | Y | Y |
g ood
I realy wanted to like this game and i kinda do, but maaaan this game is frustrating with it's wasted potential.
When you start this game, you'll have fun, a lot of it i would say. You'll recruit your band, buy your first instruments, mow lawns and busk for your first cash, play for peanuts for the crowd of 5 people. It's all good and nice until you'll start to see cracks in the "simulation"... Why bother with normal concerts when "Battle of the bands" is objectively better, i'll just grind those. Half of the skills are useless and can be just "paid thru". Within few months you can produce 100/100 songs with ease. And these cracks are basically on all the game systems...
Wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle.
After you crack the matrix, it's just grind. Grind so much more painfull thanks to the 3D world. The city maps are just grids with the same building for the whole continent with just a different PoI placements. Driving is clanky and not fun. Developer must have known that as well, because there's a skip button for 100 in game dolars that will just teleport you to your location.
So, we get to the place and get inside! More... Effin... Timewasting! Venues (all of like 4 interiours) are pointless. You either run 2 seconds straight to the venue manager or 2 seconds to th left/right to go to the show. You'll grind just to get to the point, where you are playing at venues without interier so you can just skip all this.
You can buy houses, neet! But there is no benefit to buying a better house than the starting one, on the contrary, i would say you hinder yourself by buying a bigger house. Since houses have 3 interaction points and bigger the house is, longer the running distances.
Only plac, where the 3D environment makes sence is the hotel/motel, cuz you can trash them for bonus inspiration.
But, it's a music game, what about the music? Well... Ocean, puddle, you already red that. Songwrighting is simple and easy to understand, which is nice but you'll learn really fast how to "game the system" and will produce perfect songs on a weekly basis.
You wrote your songs, trained them, now it's time to play them for real! You arive on the venue, build your playlist, and then watch 30 secconds of a 3D concert where you can do absolutelly nothing. You just painfully sit there and wait for the end screen where you can see the stats and earnings. Excating right?
Am i forgetting something? Ou yes, the music themes and trends! Why did i forget them? Ou yeah, they are pointless, just buff/debuff, don't bother.
Okay, you made it. You're selling out stadions, popularity 100 all around, best agent there is so... Why did your CD flopped harder than a fish? You are literally the most popular band on the continent! Ou, that's right, the artificial roadblock called record deals. You can get those thru your manager and it's the only way how to make your CDs sell BUT the publisher must give you a marketing budget! And ou boi is this a grind... And you know what makes this grind even better? You can do it only once a year! So your endgame boils down to:
Release a CD
Do the required amount of gigs
Sleep for the rest of the year
Repeat
I love this game and I hate this game at the same time. I could have been so good...
Ou and one more thing, don't bother with DLCs, they are just reskins. And PAID cheats for 20 bucks is just beyond greedy.
Great game
Rising Star 2 c'est moche, lent, les concerts sont des diaporamas, la musique sonne comme ce qu'on entend dans un jeu flash de 2008, et les PNJ recrutables ressemblent à des témoins de Jéhovah générés par une IA en crise existentielle.
J'ai 100 heures dessus.
Ma carrière musicale réelle ? Zéro. Kevin le bassiste que j'ai recruté parce qu'il avait un ego de 31 ? Il se porte très bien merci. J'ai refusé des sorties, optimisé des setlists pour des bars de 60 personnes à Bourg-en-Bresse, tondu le gazon d'un cimetière et passé une soirée entière à décorer un appartement virtuel avec des guitares accrochées au mur. J'ai même commencé à composer mes propres sons sur Suno pour les intégrer dans le jeu et me rapprocher encore plus de la vraie expérience. Ma copine ne le sait pas encore mais commence à s'en douter.
Le jeu est fait par un seul mec. Il tourne parfaitement. La communauté est là, fidèle, à débattre sérieusement des changements d'attitude des chansons à 2h du mat. C'est une famille dysfonctionnelle et je suis fier d'en faire partie. J'ai hâte de voir ce que le dev nous prépare comme prochain jeu.
Pour :
- Progression addictive.
- La satisfaction du premier contrat et du premier double disque de platine.
- Le van.
Contre :
- Les concerts sont des PowerPoint.
- La musique existe dans le jeu. C'est tout ce qu'on peut dire. Elle existe.
Verdict : 100 heures pour gérer la carrière d'un groupe fictif depuis ma chaise. C'est le meilleur investissement de ma vie et je le referais.
Fun asf
the people look like lego yet I still love this game
