DJMax Respect V review friv game - Dance, sing along, buy DLC

DJMax Respect V, a rhythm friv game previously only available on PlayStation, was released on site Friv2Online. This is a collection of more than 150 tracks, where songs of Korean artists, not particularly known to Western listeners, are combined with soundtracks from games and compositions from world stars like Marshmello or K/DA. The project got into our hands, and now we are ready to share our impressions.

Like many other rhythm friv games, DJMax Respect V invites you to press the buttons on your keyboard or gamepad to the beat of the music playing. The more accurately you hit the "notes", the slimmer the song sounds and the more points you'll earn. Conversely, if you hit the keys out of tune, dissonant sounds will burst into the melody.

The first thing that attracts attention in the friv game is its high complexity. Beginners will have a hard time here: even the simplest songs with a rating of one "star" challenge your reflexes and sense of rhythm. In the settings you can set the number of buttons involved - from four to eight - and the speed of flying notes, but often even the gentlest conditions do not help to achieve success.

Moreover, if other games of the genre allow you to listen to the track to the end, even without hitting the notes, DJMax Respect V does not give such an opportunity: a special scale reflects the player's performance, and if it is empty, the song will be interrupted. You have the right to make a mistake, but it's better not to abuse it: only a few mistakes are enough to empty the scale. So you'll have to practice, replay, practice again and literally memorize every track if you want to make serious progress in the friv game.

On the other hand, for those who want hardcore, all conditions are provided. Just increase the number of keys, increase the speed of notes falling, add modifiers like screen pixelization - and you won't last ten seconds. I don't know who the maximum difficulty is designed for, but it's definitely not people.

DJMax Respect V features several modes. Air - something like radio, where songs are played in random order, and players can leave their comments and suggest tracks. Freestyle - a mode of free choice of songs available to the player. Online - competition between gamers online. Mission - play tracks with special conditions: for example, to get at least 250 thousand points. Collection displays information about achievements and awards. Finally, Ranking is a rating of the best players.

For successful completion of tests you will get experience, and as you grow in levels - unlock new tracks. However, not all locked songs can be obtained for free - for many of them you will have to pay a round sum. Paid DLC with extended set of songs is a standard practice for rhythm games, but it doesn't make it more pleasant, especially if the cost of add-ons exceeds the price of the friv game itself. And if on MS the prices are already a bit biting, then in the PS4 version we are talking about more serious sums.

Another problem is the mediocre quality of the MS port. The friv game takes a long time to launch, its menus are not very informative, and gamepad buttons are not displayed on the screen. Russian localization can't be called perfect either - it's a machine translation with minimal edits.

DJMax Respect V pleases with beautiful design, excellent soundtrack and serious challenge to the player's reflexes. At the same time, the project is frustrating with expensive DLC and not the best performance of the MS-version. If these shortcomings do not scare you off, the friv game will be able to give you a lot of pleasant impressions.