You get your bearings, and you soon meet up with another, only slightly irritating, small child.

Leaves flutter, rays of sun cavort through trees, and the music is utterly gorgeous.

Kimothy challenges you to a fight for your soda, and the fun begins.

A fight against a man and a cyberfox in rhythm JRPG Nocturne.

In terms of input, the rhythm combat is simple.

Conceptually not too tricky, but actually quite busy.

Kimothy bobs up and down clutching his stick and talking about special moves.

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Next up, you find a giant mantis.

Ah, skill based.

With multiple difficulty options, Nocturne is a game suitable for beginners and veterans of the rhythm genre.

The game got aprelude chapterin 2020, and seems to have come a long way since.

Its due out sometime next year.