Noisz
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| Developer: | Anarch Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Release date: | August 31, 2018 |
| Previous game: | None |
| Next game: | NOISZ STΔRLIVHT |
NOISZ is a vertical hybrid between shoot-em-up, rhythm and visual novel genres developed by Anarch Entertainment in 2018 for Windows and Mac. It plays like a boss rush game, with individual battles timed to the music featuring as stages, bridged by story sections. It has plenty of accesibility on its difficulty for first-time bullet hell players, as well as unmerciful challenges for skilled wizards.
The base game is considered NOISZ Ignition, and it also has a DLC called NOISZ re:||VERSE which released on 2020.
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Gameplay Overview
NOISZ is a three-button game where the player is controllable around a 2D axis on any direction and they get to fight bosses on an average length of 3 to 4 minutes per battle. Both the player and the boss are timed to the song playing during the battle, and must attack following the beats; as thus, battles are usually referenced as "songs" for the sake of simplicity.
The game currently has 4 difficulties per song: Easy, Normal, Hard and Overload.
There are up to 7 possible styles to use, and those are further modified by any of the 7 modules available, which brings the total to 49 possible shot types to use. There are also special, song-unique styles.
Controls
The game defaults to keyboard and an usual set of keys for its gameplay with no option to change ingame, although those are editable on its Local AppData folder.
Note that the keys do not have any hold function outside of exiting to menus; the game must be played by pressing. There also is no pause button.
- Z: Shoot
- X: Shield
- C: Special
- Enter: Select (menus)
- Esc (hold): Leave menu/battle
Song list
A boss only appears in its correspondent song, and those can be played either in a particular order depending on the story route the player is currently on, or freely on the Free Play Mode.
| Song Pack | Song Name | Artist | BPM | Easy | Normal | Hard | Overload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Song of the Wolf | Destre | 128 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 7.5 |
| Base | Need It | Astra | 100 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 |
| Base | Odyssey (Highway Superstar Remix) | Televisor (ft. Danyka Nadeau) | 105 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 8.5 |
| Base | Rave Until The Night is Over | DM Ashura (ft. MC Jay & Veronica) | 148 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 8.0 |
| Base | Robot Rhinos | Allorium | 128 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| Base | Destroy | /DJS\ | 183 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 |
| Base | Hardcore Maniac | M-Project | 178 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 |
| Base | Save Yourself (Cod3c Remix) | Alarmin (ft. Sidekicks) | 140 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 8.5 | 9.5 |
| Base | Blood | MonstDeath | 180 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 |
| Base | NIGHTWING STIMUL8R '17 | fractilx vs アイスベア | 174 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
| Base | Kill the Deadline | Hommarju | 170 | 5.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 |
| Base | Tengu | m1dy | 175 | 5.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 10.5 |
| Base | Not The Last | SIHanatsuka | 186 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 9.5 | 10.5 |
| Base | Insomnia | Mitomoro (ft. Skizzo) | 180 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 |
| Base | Beyond the Noise | Mitomoro (ft. Mayumi Morinaga) | 180 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 |
| Base | Beyond the NOISZ | Neutral Moon (ft. Mayumi Morinaga) | 190 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 |
| Artist Pack 1 | π•ρ•maniac | DM Ashura | 148 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 9.5 | 10.5 |
| Artist Pack 1 | Violet | DM Ashura | 147 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 |
| Artist Pack 1 | Allegro con Fuoco | DM Ashura | 156 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
| Artist Pack 2 | Fallen Angel | HyuN | 160 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
| Artist Pack 2 | Girl Embracing the Dark for Light 2 | HyuN | 135 | 3.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 10.5 |
| Artist Pack 2 | Inferno Force | HyuN | 160 | 3.0 | 5.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| re:||VERSE | Step by Step | Tanchiky | 174 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 |
| re:||VERSE | Entrance (SOTUI Re-rEmix) | Ice | 180 | 5.0 | 7.5 | 10.0 | 11.0 |
| re:||VERSE | YOKKORASHOW-TIME | MYUKKE. | 128 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 |
| re:||VERSE | Toybox Madness | Mitomoro & M-Project | 180 | 5.0 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 11.5 |
| re:||VERSE | Starlight D-termination | fractilx underground | 175 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 10.5 | 11.5 |
| re:||VERSE | Empathic Outcry | MegaSphere | 148 | 5.0 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 12.0 |
| re:||VERSE | D.C al coda | M-Project (ft. Mayumi Morinaga) | 170 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| re:||VERSE | Quicksilver | HyuN | 195 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 |
| re:||VERSE | multiVerse | MonstDeath vs. Neutral Moon | 177 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 13.0 |
| re:||VERSE | re:||BIRTH | Camellia (ft. Mayumi Morinaga) | 160 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 11.5 | 13.0 |
| re:||VERSE | re:||VERSE | Camellia (ft. chiisana) | 160 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 11.5 | 13.0 |
| re:||VERSE | D.S al fine | kors k & Camellia | 160 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 13.0 |
Characters / Ships / Styles
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Scoring
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Strategy
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Story
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