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TiC!osu is a rythem game made by user called Never. It's a demake of the popular rythem game: Osu!
Like the original Osu, when you start the game a song will play and circle prompts will appears on the screen in parallel to the song's rhythm. You're required to click those circles.
Each notes in the music track is represented by a circle in the screen. A slider (tap & hold) appears if there were 2 notes with a gap between them. Each note will give you a certain score points.
There's an HP bar that increases when you do combos but decreases when you fail to click the notes in time, if it reaches 0 you lose and the music fades. TiC!osu is quite challenging because of that.
TiC!osu comes with two music tracks, and can hold up to 8 of them if you can program your own. The game was made to generate the gameplay from the music notes of any song.
There's also a difficulty settings to manage the note sizes and HP drain, and speed settings that manipulate the speed of the songs. You can also turn the slider feature off in the settings.
I found this game pretty, simplistic and engaging. The main menu is elegantly animated and I like how the cursor leaves a trail while moving. The many options out there will help to adjust the challenge to your level. I could see it become as addictive as the original Osu if there were more songs in it.
TiC!osu is pretty challenging even at the easiest difficulty, and requires fast reaction times from the player to enjoy. Overall, it's a good demake when you consider the limitations of TIC-80.
Links
- Download/Play TiC!osu on Tic-80 website
- "Tohou: Bad Apple" song in TIC-80 format by Nesbox & Fubuki.