People of Note

Fundamentally a solid RPG experience but the developers (which pains me to say as the game is fundamentally good in terms of RPG elements) took an otherwise solid story and then hid a lot of problematic content about 6ish hours into the game or so (probably could speed run to the place in under 3) which then makes it ineligible for a refund. When taken to the discussion, and no community guidelines were broken in the posting of what I posted, the developers took it upon themselves to ban me for stating that hiding a "non-binary" character deep enough into their game so that people cannot get a refund then they do not want to deal with such issues could be problematic for their studios later on. Now knowing who these developers cater towards (I mean they hired Erika Ishi and that should have been a red flag if I knew she was in it), I know this review will more than likely fall on deaf ears but for those that still have some sanity to them and thought this would be a unique RPG experience, just be prepared for a plethora of far left ideology after the first few hours. It may not seem Sweet Baby Inc was involved with this game, but I feel the bait and switch of having no real political leanings and then shoehorning in a non-binary character for literally no reason and then banning for criticizing such from the forum is in very poor taste and I assume this will hurt the company in future endeavors. Oh well.

[h2] You don't need to do everything in...[/h2] [h3] ...as harmonies can't be sung alone[/h3] [code][b]PD:[/b] The soundtrack on Steam only includes the main sung songs which can be viewed at their [url=https://www.youtube.com/@IridiumStudiosLA] Youtube Site[/url]. If you only want the Background OST consider supporting [url=https://biggiantcircles.bandcamp.com/album/people-of-note-original-game-score]their Bandcamp site[/url].[/code] [b] Candace [/b] or it was Candence?[b] has only one goal this year: beat the 9-year-awarded monotonous boyband [/b]reminded me a bit of the Backstreet boys, poor guys[b] by bringing her sound into the concerts [/b] being still a pop-per, girl. [b] Little she knows that her mission would lead to meet some friends [/b] Fret-t, Synth-ia and Vox, love the puns there [b] and trying to save the world from an unknown power[/b] or something like that, still didn't figure out that Disney-like plot. [olist][h3]PROS:[/h3] [*] [b] Colorful and cartoony art [/b] and not because of some daddies right there, not Frett, not the Sheriff.[b] [*] [b]RPG Mechanics musically enhanced! Unique genre moves! Having altering stanzas [/b] number of actions[b] in a turn, which a certain music genre shines above all [/b] deaing bonus damage when bass goes vroom [b], or even mashups[/b] the ultimate moves [b] against the crescendos set by the enemies. [*] [b]The music, of course, it's mainly pop-py, [/b] but it's my sh*t and I love it[b]. Wouldn't care to admit I bought this for the trailer OST, but Frett's and Synthia's are what sold the game right to me.[/b] Also, having the boyband [spoiler] singing "Sorry Girl" after beating them down in a boss fight[/spoiler] was so both corny and surrealist I remember it fondly.[b] [*] [b] Puzzles! Story Trivia! Petting ar"corgi"ons! You can do it all![/b] But you can ignore them all as I did, ain't got time for that when saving the world, right? [/olist] [olist] [h3]CONS:[/h3] [*] [b] Some boss fights can be overwhelming, like [spoiler] Blue Ball Sheriff's Blue Beaming or even Silence's instakill[/spoiler], and the difficult setting to off seems to be as the same as the normal difficult? [/b] Why it exists to begin with?[b] [*] Items, attributes and leveling feels underwhelmed, I just ended buying the most expensive stuff without looking twice. [b] Not recommended for hardcore jRPG fans.[/b] [/olist] [quote] [h3]So, what do you think? [/h3] A beautiful musical jRPG, an original mashup including their own single mechanics inside, with a single goal in mind: to be under the lights... and not being another jRPG impostor. [b]#8/10[/b] [/quote]

Such a beautiful and fun game. It surprised me in the best possible way. You can tell that a lot of passion was put into it. The gameplay is a mix of turn-based combat and puzzles. The story is somewhat predictable, but the way it's told is what makes it so charming! I also really enjoyed the humor, I found myself chuckling quite often

Это 3/10 музыкального отторжения Визуальный стиль - на любителя, тут вкус у каждого свой. Элемент JRPG и файт - 3/10. Скучные, долгие бои, разнообразие механик скудное, база есть, да и видимо этого хватит. Вы наверно думали что в игре нужно будет нажимать правильно кнопочки под музыку и ритм, чтоб получать буст к урону/бафы. Да надо, но не под ритм. Ты нажал скилл - появились сферы на экране, нажми вовремя. Никакого Guitar Hero или Hi-Fi Rush. В общем Ритм-механика скорее косметическая. Достаточно нажать кнопку, когда появится индикатор. Это не ощущается как музыкальная игра - скорее обычная пошаговая JRPG с QTE Музыка - 4/10. Пришел в город рока - получил попсу. Пришел в город EDM - получил попсу. Рэп/Хип-хоп - получил попсу с рэпом. Причем зайдя в города очень даже приятная музыка, но гг решила что как жанры они не ок и везде нужно добавить слезливогрустнопечальноунылоапатичной попсы о трудном пути который они обязательно пройдут. Мне очень понравилась музыка в городах, но песни мне все испортили. Сюжет игры - 1/10. (СПОЙЛЕРЫ) Хотим петь и стать Сабриной Карпентер, но злой дядя нам не дает, так как у него уже есть Backstreet Boys. НО мы сильная смуглая женщина и судьба нас любит! Мы получаем шанс выступить на концерте, в городе где все любят (другой музыки нет) попсу. И кончено же в голове идея, а что если спеть не попсу, а шото другое?! И мы в одинокого отправляемся по миру, чтоб собрать лучших из лучших в своем жанре и написать песенку для "Евровидения". Ержан вставай .Дальше конечно есть более "глубокий" сюжет, но он тоже meh. Герои стандартные, большинство конфликтов решается предсказуемо, а поворот... да нет их в принципе. Идея про музыкальные жанры интересная, но раскрыта поверхностно. Я играл через силу, постоянно ожидая: "Ну вот сейчас-то игра раскроется". Но нет... Если вы любите Disney и самую базовую попсу - влетайте с двух ног. Игра делалась для вас.

This hidden gem of a game is not getting the attention it deserves. I can't understand how it has flown under the radar. It is a fun and whimsical romp through a beautiful world filled with fun characters, great music and a very satisfying battle system. I can't recommend it enough. The colorful world and aesthetically pleasing 3d art style really pops! I had a wonderful time exploring the various themed areas and towns. Each having unique battle music and dungeons themes with puzzles and combat made for a great change of pace and the pacing itself was fantastic. The game isn't trying to artificially pad its length. The short and sweet dungeons kept the game moving forward with a nice tempo. The characters are all fun with memorable little arcs. Vox could have had a bit more time to cook but Fret and Synthia had great stories to play through. The side characters like Cerrin and Smolder were just as entertaining if not more so than the main cast. The villains are great as well, Sharp is comically diabolical and ridiculous and the villain I hesitate to name (even if somewhat obvious) had great characterization. The music in battle is excellent. It helps carry each area with the battle themes. The full breakout music videos can be a bit hit or miss. Some were earworms or did a good job at moving the plot forward (Sorry Girl is amazing). Some could have been a bit better but they are again great for pacing and entertaining throughout. The battle system is incredible. Turn based Jrpgs are tried and true but this one had so much fun decision making and combos with the songstones and stanzas. The stanza themes and modifiers allow a lot of freedom and creative approaches to combat. I was enjoying setting up combos and countering the enemy for my entire playthrough. It has some issues but they really don't tread on the overall package. Not every song will hit for everyone. Backtracking could be a little better. The backtracking can be a bit much at the end. The UI and systems are all very modern and convenient except for one very silly minor gripe that the devs can probably hotfix. When you get equipment it asks you if you want to equip it. Great! However you don't know if it is good for your build yet. When you get into the menu to equip it from that prompt, you cannot back out without putting it on. There were times where I wanted to check it out, but then didn't want to use it so I had to put it on, exit, open the menu again, take it off. Please hot fix that haha. The game is simple. It is linear and somewhat predictable but its funny and genuinely enjoyable throughout. I love persona to death but I am a bit tired of anime teens fighting god being the only style of game for this genre. This chick wants to win fantasy American Idol. Fantastic. I found the simplicity to be a strength as it was simple and full of clichés but also full of vigor and spins on the formula. The references alone are worth entry. A certain owl had me grinning ear to ear and I couldn't shut up about the cool Lasso part that I won't spoil. I jumped on here to say though that the world needs more games filled with this level of clear love for the genre. It isn't for everyone, but if you love music, jrpgs or just think any of the above looks like a fun time - it is! Try it out!

Glad I found this game considering Before the Echo is probably a game I think about far too frequently even after all these years for being an actual rpg with music elements ingrained even in its combat. So what about People of Note? Ehhhhhhh. It was good but I have a hard time saying it was great. The JRPG combat is a bit generic as its just another timing based attack system which isn't exactly unique among JRPG games. While the mechanics around it such as stanzas, mashups, etc are music themed they aren't exactly musically exclusive as you could name them anything for any game and just make elements change between turns. I am glad there was a lot of effort to flavor it musically though. The enemies are pretty diverse in what they can do and what you have to look out for in their specific special moves, most of them having 2 special attacks. So good variety and fun designs. The mashup mechanic I wasn't really a fan of due to how it interacts with the current effects of the turn. You passively only generate mash bar when getting hit. Which means that if the enemies target one person a ton you wont get mash on the other characters to actually use it. Which it feels like they tried to reduce by just having a lot of bosses have AOE. Also meaning the single taunt move in the game is pretty pointless, doubly so when it felt like it hardly forced enemies to attack that target at all. Which made specifically the rebound damage ability also useless because you can't get enemies to consistently target someone and it wasn't even strong to begin with. The stanza changes also lead to a bit of an annoying loop. You might have a primary attacker you really want to hit but their time just wont come up so you have to hop they end up getting mash along with someone else. Not generally a fan of how out of your hands it made some of the combat, especially before you get the abilities to force mash generation. The important part for a musical rpg, what about the music. The combat tracks are really good as are the remixes for each genre. What isn't great is basically all the feature songs. I'm sure its meant to sound a bit generic, but being intentionally generic is still being generic. The only ones I really liked and listened to a few times were Mirror Image and Imposter. Sage's Past feels extra weak as the story is told through text. Which makes it hard to divide a bunch of attention between reading, the visuals and the music, its just not a good way to do a lore dump song. We also don't get a full rock song as its divided into a Mashup. Which is fine but a little disappointing. Character designs were pretty good. I also liked each character and felt like we got a generally good vibe for them over the story. Level design was...rough. The game is mostly just set piece towns, puzzles, and combat. I hate puzzles. I don't generally feel accomplished doing them, especially like the later part of this game where you already know the answer but it takes a few minutes to walk through the steps to get there (particularly the hammer and tone puzzles). I think the Range map was also particularly annoying as coming back to it you have to basically undo and redo a few steps of each puzzle, rather than just teleporting up to the top or the solution leaving everything open. This is also replicated in most maps where they have an "entrance" area which looks nice seeing it the first time. But if I'm just going to a shop I don't want to have to walk all the way through the entry area again, or a second time just to leave. Overall the game is good. Its just a bit disappointing in the execution and really lacks the interest in most of the main songs. Also clearly lacking in any real marketing or promotion. Maybe its my algorithms but I only saw this game because I was wondering "what is the studio who made before the echo up to these days" and I just happened to check a few months after this came out. I'm glad I played the game despite my disappointment and I hope it does well enough for you guys to give it another shot with the experience from this game.

I cannot remember a game that made me smile, laugh, and cry out of enjoyment... ever. I genuinely loved every moment of it, except for one bug where my inventory didn't update and I spent 2 hrs combing the entire world for a collectible I had the entire time. If you like music, musicals, excellent turn-based combat where you get to strategically plan your turns and builds, and PUNS this game is up your alley. 11/10. Would buy a second time.

もし、アメコミ風のキャラクターデザインだけで購入を迷っているのであれば、それはもったいないと思えるほど完成度の高い作品でした。 JRPG風のコマンドRPGで、さまざまなジャンルの音楽をテーマにした個性豊かな国々を冒険していきます。冒険の中で出会う仲間や敵とのミュージカル風の演出からは、音楽への強いこだわりが感じられます。 序盤は手に入れたスキルでひたすら攻撃するシンプルな戦闘ですが、スキルが増えていくにつれて戦略の幅が広がります。スキルの配置や強化によってキャラクターごとの役割を考えるのが楽しくなり、終盤は「いかに自分のターンでバフを重ね、一撃の火力を最大化するか」が重要になってきます。 QTEやパズル要素も用意されていますが、苦手な人向けにオプションで無効化できる親切な設計になっています。 エンディングのスタッフロールは「！？」と驚く演出でしたが、最後までプレイすると作者のゲームと音楽への愛が伝わってきます。 日本語訳にもほとんど違和感はなく、プレイ中に目立ったバグや不具合もありませんでした。 不満点を挙げるとすれば、町から直接ワールドマップへ移動できる機能がないことと、所持アイテムをもう少し整理しやすければ良かったことくらいです。いずれもゲーム全体の評価を大きく下げるほどではなく、総じて満足度の高い作品でした。

Este juego es INCREÍBLE. Me llamó muchísimo la atención el tráiler y decidí darle un try, la mejor decisión del mundo. PROS: - El juego está traducido a español (textos) y está localizado INCREÍBLE. De verdad, las referencias, los chistes, todo todo TODO. Increíble trabajo por parte del equipo de traducción y localización. - Los diseños de los escenarios, enemigos y personajes son muy muy chulos, todos son super creativos y llaman muchísimo la atención. Le ponen muchísimo cariño a todo, a que todo siga la temática de la música, y eso me encantó. - Las canciones... wow. Todos los números musicales son una pasada, el primero ya me dejó boquiabierto, sintiendo una euforia interna emocional preciosa. - La música en general es increíble, las canciones como digo pero también los temas de combate, los remixs, las músicas de exploración. Muchísima variedad de música, estilos, etc. Además todos los mixs con sus toques. - Los combates pueden parecer simples al empezar, pero el juego tiene montón de combinaciones de skills y modificadores, yo he disfrutado muchísimo haciéndome todos los combos que quería. - La historia aunque no es una cosa loquísima innovativa es muy bonita y disfrutable, una historia digna de rpg vamos. - Los puzzles me resultaron super interesantes y algunos son realmente quebraderos de cabeza (especialmente alguno de combate). CONTRAS: - He jugado en mando y en ocasiones si cambiaba a ratón el juego se quedaba pillado y resultaba muy ortopédico. Además de que si tenía otro juego abierto de fondo, se pisaba con los controles y no bloqueaba los controles solo para este. - He echado en falta un poquito más de desarrollo de personaje, entiendo que el juego es corto y las cosas tienen que ir pasando más rápido etc. Pero simplemente como mejora. ----------------------- Jugadlo, de verdad.

[i]Hola a todos ! Vengo a contar mi experiencia con el juego. Este juego lo vi un poco raro cuando lo compre porque se suponia que tenia una puntuacion altisima y aun asi no lo habia visto por ningun lado y tampoco fue mencionado en alguna parte. Justo se dio la casualidad que estaba viendo juegos en la tienda y lo encontré. Decidi probarlo y bueno acá estamos. - La Banda sonora creo que esta bien, cuando cantan en las cinematicas no me parece wow pero esta bien. Yo considero que las mejores musicas son las de Combate y las de algunas ciudades. - La Historia es un poco rara porque hay cosas que quedaron inconclusas y no estan muy bien explicadas, no se que paso con el villano al final y tampoco sé para que hizo todo lo que quiso hacer si al final no hace nada de lo que dijo que iba a hacer (ojala se haya entendido XD). Es como que al transcurrir la historia los objetivos de los personajes y del villano cambiaban de a ratos y no llegaban a concluir con sus problemas, quedaba todo en el aire. - El Diseño de los mapas me parece bonito y los personajes tambien, se ven muy cool. - El Gameplay yo creo que esta bien, literalmente haces daño con el Poder de la Música. La Dificultad depende de que quieras hacer ya que en este juego hay Puzzles y se te da la opcion de anular los Puzzles durante todo el juego solo si te apetece. Considero que lo mejor que tiene es que cada aliado tiene su propio genero de musica en Batalla y el juego te ofrece la posibilidad de combinar generos de música para potenciar a tus aliados. Por ejemplo si combinas a la prota que es del genero Pop y lo juntas con un personajes de Rock se transformaria en el genero "Prock", la idea no es mala honestamente. Acá los personajes Levelean normal pero no aprenden Skills sino que conseguis las Skills en Shops o completando algunas Quest para luego equiparlas en tus armas. El juego te permite equiparles habilidades a tu gusto, la prota por ejemplo es ofensiva pero si queres podes hacerla support o mixta. Hay un puzzle que me parece super dificil de descifrar y es el de la Ropa de la Mansion de Sharp, estuve como 2 horas ahi probando cual era el codigo, los consejos que daban me confundian mas de lo normal. Se podia deshabilitar la opcion de puzzle pero decidi intentarlo y al final lo solucione. = UNA COSA IMPORTANTE QUE QUERIA COMENTAR = --------------------------------------------------------- He visto gente en videos y reseñas que andan tirandole Hate a este juego porque dicen que supuestamente el juego no es de "Musica" y yo considero que si lo es, pero no es exactamente lo que ellos esperaban y respeto sus opiniones. La gente se esperaba que al ser de "Musica" tenga algo de Ritmo dando a entender que sea de Flechitas como el Dance Dance Revolution y demas pero querian algo mas Dinamico. Yo igual entiendo su punto de vista, comprendo su vision de que siendo un Juego de Musica no Combine con el genero Turn Based. Obviamente sabiendo eso hay gente a la que no le va a gustar y esta muy bien ya que cada uno tiene sus gustos. Queria comentar esto porque hay gente que se compra este juego pensando que es de musica con flechitas y dinamico cuando al final no lo es y insultan el juego por eso y tambien por la Historia. --------------------------------------------------------- Bueno, una vez dicho todo eso yo disfrute el juego, obviamente tiene errores pero no lo veo como un juego malisimo como dicen por ahi. Yo la pase bien e incluso me tome la molestia de platinarlo, si lo quieren probar esta en su decicion Eso es todo por mi parte ! Saludos ![/i]