Visually (barring the gothic font, a little hard to read) and the fact that a VN was combined with a rhythm game is nice, and the online leaderboards is another plus, too.

However, control wise because of how things were mapped out (horizontally), I played with my head tilted most of the time because the way that the receptors are lined up vertically was throwing me off otherwise.

The idea of slowly adding instruments to the song was interesting story-wise, but in gameplay terms meant that each successive level is just a longer version of the previous one.

Aside from the fact that each chart was strictly hold notes, the hit detection for these felt oddly lenient since you are able to “start” holding the note regardless of how much you initially missed unless another note in the same lane comes immediately after it.

I am interested in seeing a breakdown on how scoring works though, considering the gaps near the top of each leaderboard:

i do love the art and the story was fun. but i have 2 problems with it. I

 did feel like there was more story then game, it felt like a visual novel more then a game. 

and other then that i found it to be really easy, that could just be me. 

overall its a fun time.

Great visuals and I thought it was cool having progression of the song as more members of the band were added on. Incredible how you were able to piece together visual novel aspects in with a rhythm game in such a short amount of time.

There did seem to be some scaling issues that made hitting notes pretty unplayable. Ended up just smashing keys to progress. (scaling is a devil I struggle with) Scaling issues aside, it's a visually fantastic game jam entry!

The fonts are pretty hard to read, the notes are not always fitting the music and the flute sounds like a clarinet. Also, it might be because I'm used to osu!mania, but seeing the notes scrolling horizontally feels weird.

However, I love that within a few lines you manage to give each of your characters strong personalities (even if they're a bit cliché), fun puns and a role in the song. The twist with the Devil playing triangle was great as well! This game tells a little story with nice characters with music being the main subject (even if the guy's reasons for being in hell in the first are kinda blurry).
I loved playing this game, well done ^^

nice, really love the grapics! ;D

Loved the visual novel aspect, and the art was really nice! Some fonts were a bit hard to read though :P

I think the idea of recruiting a band player by player is a great idea and it works well as "Every new player adds to the length". Although, I would have preferred it if new players added difficulty instead. Like: You start with only two buttons for the guitar and every new player adds one or two more. But this works as well.
I loved the art, the characters and the location looked really cool. The notes might need a bit more polish (I see they are stretched instead of sliced). Also, the fonts can be a bit hard to read sometimes.
The music is pretty good and I love that the new players add one new layer to the song each.
Creative idea to combine a rhythm game with a visual novel. I think it works well.
Overall an awesome entry. Thou did a great job!

The visual novel aspect is really good, and the assets are great! but the fonts are sometimes a bit… hardcore and hard to read Well done!

Wow you clearly put a lot of effort into this game and almost made a rhythm visual novel there haha. Love the graphics! Difficulty was also well chosen in my opinion and controls worked pretty well for me too. Sometimes I had a feeling though that some notes that sounded like they should start at the same time were slightly (only a few pixels) off and didn't align completely? Don't know maybe it's just me. Great entry, with the best story I've seen in this jam so far!

This reminds me of the rock adventure game No Straight Roads! Using instruments to play through the story, Great IDEA, rhythm aspect is quite satisfying too, Great aesthetics. Would love if the game could be more dynamic, more movements :)

Great Job!

I would have liked to have more options in input.