Wait wait wait, Old Games That Don’t Suck Thursday typically means a game that is old but this is a weird exception. Flash Flash Revolution has been slowly evolving over time and hasn’t quite reached its “okay it’s done,” but since it started so long ago I’ll make the pass. This week, a Flash game!
Flash Flash Revolution was the first Flash game I ever was addicted to. I was mesmerized by the flashing arrows and friend’s ability to knock out these levels left and right perfectly. Yes, it’s got the DDR influence, but it’s the sheer dedication to bringing this platform to Flash and keeping it updated and the community thriving that makes this game incredible. Seriously, it’s an entire community wrapped around a single game, mostly.
When flashing arrows come down the screen, match them to the beat with the flashing arrows above. Keep in-time and make sure your metre keeps full from consistent hits.
Since you aren’t playing with your feet you’re playing with your fingers. Learning to coordinate your fingers on the arrow keys in such a way as to not tie up your fingers and lose timing is a slow but steady learning curve. Overall I feel the experience is fun. Getting better at songs and passing ones for the first time is incredibly rewarding. Not to mention great perks such as credits and song unlocks throughout the system and site.
Go play it! It’s Flash, so it’s available on nearly every OS.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I never really liked FFR. I’m more into StepMania, FFR doesn’t make it happen for me.
In other news, last time I checked my account was there for 3.14 years!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Ugh… FFR may have a large community, but they’re pretty elitist, hypocritical, and mean spirited sometimes. One of the best stepfile makers I know was almost universally insulted there for having “low quality” stepfiles, mainly from those who made absolutely terrible ones. I DEFINITELY prefer StepMania. The community is mostly nice, the game has more features, better graphics… better everything, pretty much, plus you can make songs and have as many as your computer can hold. FFR is just more accessible (Because people are too lazy to spend a few minutes installing something of higher quality). On the subject of free online music games, I’m happy to attract attention to Feel the Beats (feelthebeats.com), which is the successor to F2Jam. I moderate it.
You can submit your own songs, earn badges, comment, rate, etc. and there are plenty of game options to choose from. I think if people got into it and made charts, it would eventually become bigger than FFR.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I’ve played this game before. It’s alright. Bit hard getting the fingers right, but it’s quite fun overall.
Rest in peace, Michael Jackson (sorry to go off topic).
June 26th, 2009 at 11:51 am
I play this game all the time!!
June 27th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Hi John. Thanks for the love. <3.
June 27th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Um, yeah. If you’re more involved in the “dance game” genre, FFR is, quite frankly, one of the lowest of the low. Its ease of setup (go to the website and click “play FFR”) is one of the few things going for it.
No offense to FFR players out there, but the general quality of the stepcharts has a (rightfully deserved) reputation of being abysmally low, whether it be poor step patterns or annoyingly inaccurate sync data.
The community tends to be a bit obnoxious as well, but honestly, it seems like a curse that every dance game following has some annoying quirks.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:32 am
You could try playing o2jam or o2mania (o2mnia is in Chinese lucky I understand >.<). Its similar but diffrent