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"... And yet here we are, mere months away from the arrival of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, which manages to one-up Funky Fantasy both in terms of its preposterous design and its silly name.
Nonsensical as the game may seem on the surface, in practice it's surprisingly fun. Rather than going the DDR route, Square Enix has instead chosen to base Theatrhythm's play mechanics more on the Elite Beat Agents model: Players drag and tap the 3DS's touch screen in time to on-screen cues synched in turn to the music. The input methods lack the hand-crampingly manic style of EBA, though on higher difficulty levels the prompts fly almost too fast to keep up with, and the similarity of the three input styles (tap, hold, swipe) in some ways make the game extremely difficult in the heat of a more demanding play sequence since it's easier to twitchily make a miscue between such near-identical motions.
The other big difference between the fictional Funky Fantasy and its real-life monkey's paw incarnation is that Theatrhythm doesn't simply stop at being a rhythm game. It's also a 25th anniversary encapsulation of the franchise, which means that Square has somehow managed to do a Dissidia and make an RPG out of it, too.
"But that's preposterous," you sputter incredulously. "How can a music game be a role-playing game as well?"
The answer, as it happens, is encoded in the title of the game: Music performances are staged -- literally staged -- as Final Fantasy-style battles. The game's visual style presents 25 years of familiar heroes and villains as felt board puppets marching across diorama battlefields, like a saccharine-cute puppet show based on great music and deeply nerdy underpinnings. Hence, "theatre"-"rhythm." ..."
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