Klang 2 - Launch Trailer | PS4this is Klang 2

it's a rhythm game where the stages are fights

and the rhythm inputs are attacks and dodges

how the game is structured is that there's an overarching story, and between the story battles you unlock a bunch of extra songs to play

then you do those for a while until you get enough doohickeys to unlock the next boss

but the interesting thing is that, because the game is about fights, each stage has to have an enemy for you to be fighting

in the tutorial, you fight, like, a training robot

then the first section of songs you unlock are all fighting the training robot

then you fight an actual guy, then you unlock a bunch of songs where you fight that guy

so each set of songs is against the same enemy as the previous boss battle

and what's interesting is

the characters have styles

like the training robot is a head and two floating hands

so you can predict where notes are gonna come up by tracking where the hands are going

then later you fight Ghost, and he teleports around the screen rapidly, which means that the fights in that section have a lot of rapid alternating notes on opposite sides of the screen

so when you see who you're up against on a song, it actually tells you some subtle things about the incoming beatmap

that's cool