Before I move on to the actual review, I just wanted to say that this review is suitable
both for people who have never played the game, for people who are just getting into
it and for more experienced players.
I will not be delving into any specific part of the game, this is an review that will briefly
describe the game and tie in my thoughts and experiences with it.
Now that I explained what exactly you are about to watch, we can move on to the video.
Enjoy!
You know that time when your friends ask you "hey what games do you play" and you don't know what to say.
Should you lie and go with a generic answers like "I play counter-strike and League"
or some other mainstream game?
Or should you answer honestly and deal with the potential judgement of playing a "weeb game".
People outside of the osu community don't really know what osu is, and when they go
ahead and google it or you show them, it will most likely have an anime map in the background
and they'd just label osu as a weeb game and not think about it again.
Well, you can show them this video which will hopefully clarify everything and maybe even
get them into the game!
What is osu?
osu! is a free game developed in by Dean Herbert, also known as Peppy, a game developer from
Australia and is based on the Nintendo game called "Osu Tatakae Ounendan", where you
use the Nintendo DS touchscreen to tap circles and sliders to the beat of the song.
The more accurate you were, the more points you got.
Osu was basically a PC port of the game with the capability for users to create their own
maps using the built-in editor which has been around since it's release back in 2007,
and user-made skins that changed how the game looked were introduced around the beginning of 2009.
The beginning of osu
At the beginning osu was a one man project
made by Dean, made from passion for developing and the love for the original DS game.
Later on he would create the "osu!Team"
that ranged from teams such as global moderations team, quality assurance team and
the developers team which included like-minded people that shared the same passion for osu!
How the game works
The game functions on the same principle as osu tatakae ounendan, but now with being able to use both your mouse and keyboard for aiming
and clicking respectively the difficulty of the maps would over time be increased as the
demand from the community for harder stuff increased.
So we eventually went from this:
to this:
People have also found other alternative ways to play osu and some of those ways went
mainstream, like playing osu with a drawing tablet for aiming instead of the mouse, and
nowadays a lot of people play with a tablet instead of a mouse!
Funny story, at the beginning osu was only played with the mouse, you would aim with
the mouse and use the mouse buttons to click, but after a forum suggestion the keys "Z"
and "X" were set as the default keyboard keys for clicking.
Other ways of playing osu that may not be as popular but still are cool to look at are:
Mouse only (like Peppy originally intended the game to be)
Tap-X (tapping with the tablet and the keyboard if necessary)
touchscreen
trackball
trackpad
Using a laser and a camera to track….. what?
Well, the community always has some cool stuff to show and new creative ways to play the game, that's for sure.
The game includes more than one mode, within osu you will also find Mania, which is like
a osu version of stepmania, Taiko, which is a game based off of Taiko no Tatsujin and
Catch The Beat, osu's only completely original gamemode where you catch the fruit that is
falling to the rhythm of the music.
I will only be talking about the standard mode since that's what I play.
Also, the game is bound to get completely re-coded with the project Lazer.
Project Lazer is a complete rework of the game, written from the ground up by Peppy
and his years of experience with the original osu client and now he has a talented osu!dev
team to help him out with it.
Lazer aims to polish all issues that the old osu client has and just remake the entire
game and set itself up for years and years of future updates.
Lazer will also allow for people to make completely new custom game modes for the game along with
a lot of new features that couldn't be implemented in the current client.
The Game
Like all rhythm games, osu is easy to learn,
but hard to master.
The game is super competitive and has a ranked ladder that is defined by the PP system, and
the amount of PP that you have determines your rank on the ladder.
The game on release used to rank you by the amount of ranked score, which was the amount
of points you gained on every map added together, after that, the community got the ppv1, made
by Tom94, which aimed to represent the skill of the players more accurately.
After Tom joined the osu!team, he put osu!tp in place, which split the pp in 3 parts, speed, aim and accuracy.
A few months after osu!tp was in use, Tom introduced a whole new system that is ppv2
and it used a single number instead of 3 different numbers and that system is still being used
to this day, although some aspect have been changed recently and more changes are to be made.
How do you gain PP?
PP is gained every time you play a map and it has its own formula that determines the
"weight" of the gained PP.
For example, your top play is 301pp and since it's your top play it is weighed for 100%
of it's value, while your second play is 298 and it's weighed approx.
5% less, therefore we have terms like "raw" pp and "net" pp, net standing for PP gained
after the weight calculations and raw standing for the amount of PP gained before calculations.
The system is not perfect and it most likely ever won't be, but it's what we have right now.
Music
osu offers a wide variety of music for you
to enjoy, from anime song openings, japanese music in general, generic EDM, video game
music etc., there is always something for everyone to enjoy.
You can download all the maps with the music on the osu website or in-game if you shell
out for osu!supporter which is $4/mo, which allows you to change the osu main menu background,
has your name highlighted in bright yellow when you chat in-game, lets you upload more
maps to the website at once, lets you view country and friend leaderboards but most importantly
gives you access to osu!direct, which gives you a whole menu to download maps without
having to leave the game.
Purchasing osu!supporter is completely optional and the game can be entirely played without
it, but the features it grants you are really worth it for the money and you get to support
a great dev.
Speaking of uploading more maps, you may choose to learn how to map and become a part of the
mapping community, and strive to have your maps either ranked or loved and played by
hundreds or thousands of players.
You can map whatever song you want, so you could bring a whole new genre to the community
and find people who like the same music that you do, something that mappers like pishifat
and mazzerin (to name a few) did.
The community
Before I start off this segment we need to be real for a second.
This game is hard since it's not really intuitive.
The difficulty curve is huge and at the start you won't know what's going on or how
to play, and you will most likely get really frustrated playing.
But you must persevere through that, keep practicing and you'll get the hang of it.
This game has so much to offer, you will listen to music you never knew existed, you will
talk to people from all over the world, and quite frankly, osu can become more than just a game.
If you decide to stick around and figure out how the game works you will most likely find
yourself spending a lot of time on osu, whether it'd be playing single or multiplayer or
just socializing in the vast sub communities of osu.
If you really love music you will find yourself playing maps just for the music, and osu can
be a whole new experience of how you perceive and enjoy music.
If you enjoy tapping your fingers to the beat of a song you are listening to, you will feel
this when playing osu.
If you are really competitive, osu has a lot to offer as well.
When I started playing the game, I spent my first few hours getting the hang of the basics
and playing the same map over and over again, trying to beat my previous score and trying to get the FC.
I loved seeing the numbers go up, my rank go up every time I played a map or when I
beat my best score.
It's really addictive.
However, I do not recommend going down the "farmer" route, since that will really
get you burned out from the game and you just won't enjoy the game as much.
If you don't know what a "farmer" is, I'll give a brief explanation:
A farmer is someone who only plays maps that are over weighted (give more PP then they should) and
abuses the PP system in their favor in order to gain ranks and PP as fast as possible.
Try to enjoy the game and the music, I've found myself enjoying the game the most when
I didn't play to gain PP, but rather just playing what song I felt like listening to
at the moment and immersing myself in the map.
Just like the famous player ruruchi once said, "please enjoy game".
Now let's get to the community.
Behind the game there is a huge community of players who may be weird or questionable
at times, but it's a tight knit community and being a part of it feels amazing.
The community is somewhat split amongst sub-communities, for example there's a community of #1 farmers
(people who farm #1 scores on easy/normal maps), country specific communities and so
on but whatever osu sub-community you go to, you will find friendly individuals who are
down to chat with you about stuff both inside and outside of the game.
Although the community is not serious and loves to meme most of the time, sometimes
there are serious discussions regarding the future of osu or when there needs to be a
game changing proposal.
So yeah, that has been my review of osu!
This game has been one of the most addicting games I've ever played and it never fails
to deliver an entertaining experience or at least a time waster while jamming out to some
of my favorite music, and I definitively recommend you check it out if you don't already play it.
I'll link the game in the description as long as some good tutorials on how to play
and how to make, by pishifat and bubbleman.
But anyways, thanks for watching
and I hope you stay tuned for more!
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