rhythm games: Touching Games: Reflect Beat, Cytus

A touching game is played with a touch panel. Thus, touching games are available to some touching devices such as smartphones and pads, which means you can play them handily!

1. Reflect Beat (RB)

"Reflect beat is a rhythm game from Bemani series, developed by Konami. It was released on November 4, 2010. In the game field, there will be 2 lines, where the line at the bottom is the player's. There are also 2 or 3 tops above the line. Round markers called "Objects" will come towards the player's line or top, and the aim of the player is to touch them exactly when they are on the line or top.[1]" Of course, you then "reflect" them to your opponent, who is a computer or a real person. This is one of the special feature of RB.

from the powerpoint edited by Tzu-Yuan Chiu

As a novice, I sometimes touch the objects out of the line, and sometimes fail to recognize the rhythm. QQ

There are five types of objects: [1]

Gold Object: Gold Object is an Object which will bounce to the opposite direction if it is touched on either the player's or the opponent's line.
Black Object: Black Object is an Object which will disappear if it is touched on either the player's or the opponent's line.
Long Object: The player must touch and hold it on the same position without moving the finger until the tail of it reaches the line.
Chain Object: This type of Object appears as an Object with a line that links it to the other Object behind it. The player must double-tap the object on the same position.
TOP Object: This kind of Object only appears on MEDIUM and HARD difficulty. There will be 2 or 3TOP receptors and the object is always go towards the receptors. Just like with the line, player must touch the Object when it overlaps the receptor to hit it successfully. Top objects are easy to ignore and sometimes tricky to touch.

"There's also a unique feature called 'Touch&Slide'(You can call it 殺球). Players just have to hit a 'Gold Object' (not a Black Object) and slide it so the object will bounce back faster in an unpredictable direction. You only can slide only if the judgment of that gold object is 'just'. It costs one portion of the 'JUST REFLECT Gauge'.[1]"

Sometimes many objects reflecting in the screen really make beatmaps messy!

Let's see two videos.

Played by me with an arcade. Notice "Touch&Slide" at 0:46 and 1:13.

An English song with lyrics(hard to recognize), played by a member of NTU music game club with an iPad. He is an experienced player.

Remark: The sensitivity of an iPad is not worse than that of an arcade, and even better than that of an old one. If you have a pad, whether iOS or Android, just download now and enjoy!

2. Cytus

"Cytus is a rhythm game developed by Rayark Games, an independent game developing corporation in Taiwan. TAIWAN!! There is NO arcade games, only available to iOS, Android, PlayStation Vita(PlayStation Mobile.[2]"

In my opinion, Cytus is the inverse game of RB.

RB: moving objects, fixed lines.

Cytus: fixed objects, moving lines.

It is popular among my classmates. I think no more introduction is needed. Just download now and play! Then, discuss with your friends.

a beautiful song

By the way, Rayark company is invited to deliver a speech to NTU music game club in December this year! Maybe I can make a report about it. Thank you for visiting.

Judgment (Score) [3]

RB	Cytus
JUST(+3)	PERFECT(+a)
GREAT(+2)	GOOD(+0.7a)
GOOD(+1)	BAD(+0.3a)
MISS(-3 for a circle, -1~3 for a long object, -10 for a slide object from opponent)	MISS(0)