Wouldn't recommend playing for now, as the game is pretty buggy despite the level of visual polish: weekly achievements are uncollectable (though the reward currency currently has no purpose), normal achievements are collectable infinitely, characters are not properly tracking wins for purposes of leveling up, some characters' (Sasha, Riley, Eva) gallery images aren't unlocking, a tendency to crash on the song select screen for Endless mode, the game softlocking if you try to quit from the pause menu, and most importantly for a rhythm game, there seems to be a number of issues with held notes at the moment, with tapped notes sometimes charted INSIDE of held notes, and held notes sometimes not properly registering on-beat.
Other smaller gripes:
-- Load times are a bit irritating. This especially becomes the case when there's an option after a song in story mode for Enter to continue and Esc to go to menu, but the Continue option still kicks you back to the main menu.
-- If the game wants to provide a novel gameplay mechanic, it absolutely needs to have a tutorial so people can understand how the shoot-em-up section of the rhythm game actually works. It pops up a pattern for you to match to gain additional time and then lets you just mash buttons like a maniac, but that doesn't seem to actually DO anything. Hitting notes with specific timings is a rhythm game staple, but the Perfect/Great/etc. dichotomy doesn't make intuitive sense on fired notes, though the game does seem to be scoring them in some way that is never explained.
-- The charts for songs aren't great, but are at least passable. That said, many of the charts get kind of meandering partway through even if they start out reflective of the actual BPM and rhythm.
-- Agents claim to have both active and passive abilities, but none of that seems to be reflected in gameplay at all. If this is a mechanic that is going to be added in the future of development, it would be good for that to be written there instead of cryptic filler descriptions.
-- The AI elements of the design process are all more or less still there at surface level despite the claims that they've ultimately been created, refined, and QCed by people; I don't so much mind when it's the out-of-focus realistic renders used as backgrounds, but things like the drifty 2.5D effect on the agent unlock images warping character images around the edges (usually around the hair, but with some other more egregious examples like Nora's first unlock's pestle), some unlock images designed incoherently (e.g. Jade's first unlock, has her with a welding mask up on top of her head, holding a full wrench in one hand and a phantom end of a ratcheting wrench in another, with a phillips head screw in her mouth and welding sparks coming from somewhere off the bottom of the screen.), inconsistent design elements (e.g. Aria's boots have two different designs between her own and Clara's gallery) and the blurbs for the character image unlocks all having that stilted faux-deep AI cadence to them, and some are not even accurate descriptions of the images (Lena's seems particularly egregious in this regard.)
