PolarisChord (AC)

New Bemani game, but no clue what it is.

https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/polarischord/pc/pre/

If you will zoom in reaaaaaly close you will notice it's just Chunithm with knobs.

anikurage 2.0 it seems

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full on hopium it's a success

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Another Cab redesign/modify/upgrade/whatever... poor thing... NOSTALGIA R.I.P.


More like a fusion of Chunithm, pop'n wonder and ONGEKI... jeez, i can see what could be a total failure.

https://twitter.com/ariesukobeya/status/1699966716204417383

LOL if Nostalgia ends up dying for a knock-off Project Sekai

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Here's a picture of the control scheme, as well:

https://twitter.com/amnet_official/status/1699950943356481899?t=X-ALjsqXZ-i-Gc6I0MQKQw&s=19

Basically, this isn't really Chunithm, but more of "What if Dancerush was for your hands.... and had not one, but TWO crossfaders on top?"

Hopefully this gets cancelled like the last time they tried to knock of Chunithm with "Rizminance"

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One of the people on a rhythm gaming Discord I'm in described this as "Nostalgekvoltithm" and honestly Yeah

Also what's Rasis doing here...

I'm surprised Ichika, Nono, and Miya aren't here - this feels like a game that Konami would have put their VTubers into. Unless they all graduated while we weren't looking.

Release date slated for March 27, 2024.

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oh it's finally releasing lol

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Jeez not even a month and this game has gone silent. Can we all admit that this game is a massive flop and is gonna be dead within the year? I've seen the workings from other players and my goodness is this game a scam or what? High levels of grinding to earn Mira(The games currency system) to unlock higher difficulties(Expert and higher can cost 50,000 to 200,000 Mira at most to unlock the highest difficulties and you earn a basic 2,400 per clear, and that's if you get a SS on a song, and because scoring high requires leveling up your avatars and lots of grinding, getting a lot of Mira is gonna take months of accumulation to unlock every hard chart in this game), the scoring is gacha based around the avatars leveling up so you won't get good grades even if you perfect play a song if you don't level up your avatars which requires playing the easy stuff A LOT, the game feels overall like a mobile game with gacha elements, the songlist has 0 Bemani songs, just a bunch of vocaloid, mainstream jpop and Vtuber stuff, and also the game isn't even challenging on higher difficulties, not even giving anyone good incentives to stick with the game long term to unlock them months from now with how heavy grinding is, which means it's more casual flair and not for hardcore players like myself. I don't know what Konami was thinking with this, but I had a feeling this was gonna fail. Once again another new Bemani IP that's a nothingburger.

Any known locations of this? The game isn't even in the Z-i-V Arcade database...

Have you tried requesting it here?
https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=4632&page=90#p455919

I'm currently in Asia right now, and nope, I haven't seen the likes of the machine at any of my local arcades yet. Either way, it looks to be one of Konami's least interesting arcade machines to date. I suspect it'll stay in service for about 2 years before they have no choice but to end the service.

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Didn't they already try to do that before? Bemani games were already cool. I don't think they need to try to be like Chunithm, since Chunithm probably wouldn't exist without their games

I'm looking at the game play, and I see more of a resemblance to Project Sekai (as well as in the MV style, and even the "Contender" characters are like if you mixed Project Sekai and Ongeki )

Also, the characters all have chibi forms and they're just stinkin' adorable and really goofy

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Personally I'm givin' it it 6 months before it shuts down
Lookin' like "We got Project Sekai at home"

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Apparently, it's getting/has recieved a Sound Voltex collab?

Rasis:


Grace:



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Wait, hold up. Apparently, Polaris Chord isn't even a Bemani title?!

https://eam.573.jp/app/web/post/detail.php?post_id=21600519

SINCE WHEN?! (Sorry if I'm necroposting I was just shocked)

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Correction, it IS listed as a BEMANI game(even though it doesn't have the BEMANI sticker on the cabinet and it's missing from the boot screen). Just because it's listed in other there doesn't mean it's not a Bemani game. I think it's listed in other because honestly the game is an afterthought and not really in the realm of where the other rhythm games are there on that page.