Jason Weyer
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Great game and love the difficulty on harder levels. What keeps it from 5 stars is there is not any incentive to play on harder than normal for the league. A high score (99% accuracy) on normal gets more points than a slight less accurate (90%) on technical. The other thing is that the game needs a more intuitive sound to visual calibration. When I'm using a Bluetooth device it is so far off it makes it almost unplayable. I just have to play when I can use my phones speakers.
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The general rule with Android/iOS games is: behind every decent game is an awful pay structure that wants to siphon as much money as humanly possible from you. There has perhaps never been a better example of this rule than Pianista. The game itself is fantastic. The tracks are very thoughtfully arranged to make the player feel a real connection to the piano keys/chords being hit, the selection is massive and there is information attached to the composers for anyone whose Pianista sessions inspire them to learn a little bit about the people behind the music they enjoy. Unfortunately, it has one of the most insulting pay-to-play structures I have ever encountered in a video game. If you want to play for free you'll be watching 30-second ads before *every single song*, and even then watching the ad doesn't always register and give you credit. I'd love to buy the game, but instead of making an ad-free, purchasable copy available, the game offers you a rental structure whose price isn't that shy of a Netflix subscription. I can't emphasize enough how sleazy the pay structure is.
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Daniel Johnson
One of the best rhythm games in the whole Google Play store. The gameplay is polished and there are no ads. The sync of the notes and the finger presses are perfect (something hard for devs to do on Android), it has lots of songs of varying difficulties. Dare I say it, this is so good it's like the piano version of Guitar Hero for classical music. I use a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.