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- 《Archive: RHYTHM GAME 2023 RECAP AND 2024 GOALS FOR 2024》 -

Helloooooo internet!!! Welcome to a post that I really should've made a YEAR AGO (this sentence used to say a week ago, but it's been so long since i wrote this that it's now almost the end of 2024 and i still have yet to publish this... will make writing the 2024 recap MUCH easier though, so hang tight!!), but that I've had to delay to catch up on other writing. But now that I have the time and opportunity, now's my chance to finally do this!

So! Rhythm game progress! It's a natural process when playing, of course, but isn't it nice to look back every so often on what you've accomplished between a certain time period? A month, a couple months, a year, a couple years, you name it! Well, for me, that certain time period just so happens to be... a year! Starting now, each year I want to go back to the first day of the previous year and compare it to the last day to see how much I've progressed in 365 days in each rhythm game, and then I want to use that data to create future goals that I want to meet by the end of the year in each rhythm game too!

But alas, since I play so many rhythm games, I need to be cautious about my goals for each one and not make them too extreme (except for the ones I main). At the same time, however, caution is not something I know. So! Some goals may be extreme depending on my aspirations, some may be a little weaker if I don't play the game enough (or if I don't like it), but I'll do my best to meet every single one of them in time for the new year...!

With all of that out of the way, let's look at the 2023 recap first! Cue the music! (play world vanquisher while reading all this)

(NOTE: As it's been a year since I've started writing this, there have been several rating scale changes in certain games that have made some of my original statements inaccurate. Given I have much better access to information now at the end of 2024, and given it'd be weird to translate ratings from a year ago to ratings now, I've done my best to translate my specific difficulty achievements to the new scales for consistency. I might've missed some, however, but it should be fairly accurate to what their ratings are in the present day (notably in Rotaeno, DJMAX, and vivid/stasis). I apologize for the potential confusion in reading some of these achievements, but hope the adjustments can better future-proof this post as I link it in my pinned.)

(Side-note: Due to the volatility, recency, and honestly terrible changes in CHUNITHM VERSE's rating scale, the game's rating and scale will only be accurate to the scale of LUMINOUS PLUS, as I honestly can't make sense of what the hell they were thinking with the new scale and can't be bothered to translate it over. This is also due to the fact that CHUNITHM VERSE replaces recent scores' contributions to rating with scores on new version songs, which I obviously don't have access to, and thus I cannot measure my rating in any meaningful sense with the game's system.

*=- 2023: Year in Rhythm Review!!! -=*

CHUNITHM: 14.55 -> 15.50 Rating (Achievements: 13+ FC, 14 FC, 15 S)

DDR: ????.?? -> 1400.60 Skill Attack (very skewed since i didn't have basic course until halfway into this year, so the Skill Attack rating obtained this year includes Everything from 2022 as well) (Achievements: First 15 PFC, A Fuck Ton of 16 AAAs, First 17 AAAs, First tourney appearance (MOTL5!))

Groove Coaster: ????? (no rating system really, how do i even measure progression on this?) (Achievements: Garakuta Doll Play (Hard 14) FC)

GITADORA (Drummania): 112.71 -> 234.44 SKILL (Achievements: idk honestly i barely played this)

IIDX: 5th Dan (CastHour) -> 6th Dan (EPOLIS) (Achievements: First four 10 clears, First 8 FCs)

jubeat: 472.8 -> 2169.0 Jubility (Achievements: First 8 clear, First 7 SS)

PIU: Intermediate Lv.9 -> Advanced Lv.1 (basically) (Achievements: First S21 clear, First D21 clear)

SDVX: 10.181 -> 15.316 VF (Achievements: First 15 S, First 16 AAA, First 17 clears (and AAA too ig??))

Arcaea: 10.72 -> 11.32 PTT (Achievements: First 10 EX+, First 10+ Clear)

Phigros: 14.68 -> 15.41 RKS (Achievements: Several 15 Phis, Almost All Legacy Chapter Phi, KALPA Folder Phi, GOOD COLLECTION Folder FC)

MUSIC DIVER (NEW!): 0.00 -> 1106.14 Rate (Achievements: Started playing??? SS on an old-scale 10 and 9...)

TAKUMI Cubic: 0.000 -> 18.499 Rating (Achievements: S ranks on 15s and a former 15+, ALL JUST on a 14+ (and FC on another harder 14+), MAX-1 on a 13+)

ProSeka: Diamond -> MASTER (Ranked, EN), Kaiden 11 -> 18(?), Shin Kaiden 2 -> 9 (110 Master APs?) (Shin Kaiden) (Achievements: 200+ Master FCs, First 31 AP, Several 30 APs)

Rotaeno: 7.083 -> 13.563 Rating (Achievements: First Lv13 clear, First few APs (K.Moe & Infinity Heaven IV Lv.11), Bolt's Challenges All AP, S+ on multiple 13s)

DJMAX: ???? (No rating system as of yet) (Achievements: First 6BSC MAX COMBO (Tok! Tok! Tok! 6BSC 4*), First 4BSC 8* PERFECT PLAY/PP (Ask to Wind (Live Mix) 4BSC 8*)

EZ2ON (NEW!): 0.000 -> 4.565 Rating (4K Standard) (Achievements: First 4S Lv.17 All Cool, First 6S Lv.13 No Miss/Full Combo)

vivid/stasis (NEW!): Class 0 -> 8, 0 -> 15986 Rating (Achievements: Several FINALE chart MAXes, First 11+ MAX (Crosshatch [FINALE 11+]), First 13 AC (Credits [FINALE 13])

Whew, that's quite a lot of rhythm games!!! But somehow, I think I've managed to cross off most of my rhythm game progression and updates from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2024. Some stats may be a little inaccurate, as I may not have properly archived them at the exact start/end of the year and thus have had to rely on images from either a bit deep into 2024, or a bit back in 2022, but this should offer a pretty clear retrospective into what scores I've gotten over this year-long period. I also started playing several other rhythm games starting this year, so those games don't have any ratings from 2022 to start for, and are thus labeled "0.000" at their start or something like that. There's also the potential for missing certain achievements I got in certain games over this time period, so I apologize for their absence if there are any and will update this post in case I find or recall anything important achieved in 2023.

With all that said, however, I think I did a really good job in archiving all of my measurable rhythm gaming achievements in each game!!! And if I didn't, then I'll do better in next year's post!!! Speaking of next year, though, it's no time to be dwelling on my past rhythm game legacy... and instead, it's time to set goals and go EVEN FURTHER this coming 2024!!! This one's bound to be a doozy, as several rhythm games will likely change their rating system and make the goals either easier or harder to get (though that shouldn't really be a problem now as I'm writing this a year into the future), but I'll do my best to set reasonable yet challenging goals for future me to achieve in this new year's time...!

*=- 2024: Steps and Goals Towards The Future!!! -=*

CHUNITHM: 16.00 Rating (Rainbow), 14 AJ, 14+ FC

DDR: 1700 Skill Attack, 16 and 17 PFCs, AAA an 18, Cobalt V (LIFE4DDR), Participate in another tourney

Groove Coaster: FC a few more 15s, i guess...? Not sure how to measure achievements in this game, in all honesty...

GITADORA (Drummania): 500.00 SKILL, Clear a Level 6.00+ chart, FC a 3.50+ chart

IIDX: 7th dan (newest version), FC a 9, HC a 10, Clear an 11, Learn how to Play with Random

jubeat: 4000.0 jubility...? Clear a 10, FC a 7, idk man i don't play this

PIU: Advanced Lv.5, Clear a 22 (any mode), SSS a 20 (new ranking system)

SDVX: 17.000 VF, PUC a 15, UC a 17, Excessive Clear an 18, Clear a 19

Arcaea: 12.50 PTT (Double Star), PM a 10, FC/Full Recall on a 10+, Catch Up with the Damn Story

Phigros: 16.00 RKS, FC a 16, aughhhhh idk

MUSIC DIVER: 10000 rating, Class 8(?), FC a Level 15 (new scale), something else idk... don't play this game enough w

TAKUMI Cubic: 19.000 rating, FC a 15+, AJ a 15, Unlock all unlockable songs and Insanity/Ravage charts

ProSeka: 400 Master APs (Shin Kaiden 38...?), Ranked Master in JP, participate in more tourneys if possible

Rotaeno: 15.000 Rating, AP a 12, FC a 13, Catch Up with the Damn Story (again)

DJMAX: No rating system, no rating goals... but for new-scale stuff? MAX COMBO/FC an SC 15* (4B), SC 10* (6B & 5B), and SC 1* (8B), as well as PERFECT PLAY/PP an SC 12* (4B), SC 7* (6B), and SC 5* (5B), and try to MAX COMBO every SC chart below 15* on 4B

EZ2ON: 15.000 Rating (4K Standard), 10.000 Rating (6K Standard), AC an 18 (4K), FC a 19 (4K), AC a 13 (6K), FC a 15 (6K)

vivid/stasis: 17000 Rating...? Maintain highest class clear, AC a 15+, FC a 16, MAX a 14

...aaaand that should be all of 'em!!! Given I'm writing this at the end of 2024, how many of these did I achieve this year? ...well, honestly I don't know. And after all, I still have 4 days to get to the ones that I didn't achieve yet. So once it's the new year, I'll come back to write another 2024 year in review and another set of goals for 2025 somewhat based on my scores and goals from this year. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go arcade gaming today to hopefully knock out some goals that I have yet to achieve... but I'll keep y'all posted with those scores, and you might even match up some goals of mine to some newly-achieved scores!!! But if I were writing this in 2023... I'd say I was really optimistic about my rhythm gaming this year, and I hope to keep my enthusiasm up and running all year so I can knock out all these bad boys!!!