Hello everyone!
Happy 2-year anniversary! We are Team osu! Arklane Impact, an intersectional community of players from both Genshin Impact and the rhythm game osu!. To celebrate this milestone of the game’s journey with everyone, we’ve brought together some of our best talents to present to you – a rhythm game take of Genshin Impact, and invite you all to check this out!
What is “osu!” and this project exactly?
osu! Is a free-to-play rhythm game inspired by the Japanese game “Osu! Tatakae Ouendan”. The game features four main game modes, with the main “standard osu!” being the often talked about “click the circles to the beat” game. The gameplay is very simple – you track hitcircles and sliders that pop up on screen and hit them with your cursor when the timing is right. The player community submits “beatmaps” of popular songs from a variety of genres, including everything between death metal and anime. Anyone can download and play on PC and mobile.
This year, we asked our team’s musician VINXIS to draw inspiration from the story of our journey as well as from HoYoMiX’s musical ingenuity to create a unique track of his style: 上昇の旅 ～ The Ascending Journey. We also invited artist Tofumang to create a “storyboard” to go along with the music, which is in turn interpreted into rhythmic beatmaps by our team members.
Here is a video showcasing our work, played by a celebrated veteran player, Shigetora (AKA Chocomint/Cookiezi):
This looks cool, but isn’t it also very difficult?
We don’t deny this being difficult – in fact the showcased difficulty is the most advanced one in the entire set! However, we understand that there are different levels of rhythm gamers out there, and thus we created an entire spread of difficulties to allow anyone to easily pick up and experience the beat! Whether you are a tempo novice or a rhythm pro, we made sure that you can enjoy our project equally!
DOWNLOAD OUR BEATMAP SET HERE
Don’t sweat it if this is your first time trying an actual rhythm game (cough cough Itto drum event) – simply take a look around and have fun!
Wow! I tried this and like the gameplay. Are there other Genshin-related beatmaps we can play?
Certainly! The community has been making beatmaps from HoYoverse’s music for a long time. You may use the website’s search function to easily locate them. Here are a few that we can recommend:
>Let's Go, Crimson Knight! (Klee's theme)
>Rex Incognito (Zhongli's theme)
>Termination of Desires (Raiden Shogun's theme)
>Let the Wind Tell You (Fansong from CN community)
>The Stellar Moments Vol. 1 (Entire album as a marathon map)
>The Stellar Moments Vol. 2 (Entire album as a marathon map)
We are very happy to celebrate two years of this journey with everyone. Many members of our team are day 1 players who are still active. Just as everyone on this forum, we come together from different parts of the world, and want to make something out of this common hobby of ours. We hope that you find our project interesting and would give it a try.
Ad Astra Abyssosque!
Project staff
Team Lead: Shurelia
Producer: Evrien
Music and Technical assistance: VINXIS (SoundCloud | YouTube)
Art: Tofumang
Storyboarding Team: Nitrous, Rizen, Hokichi, Enkrypton, Ningguang
Gameplay Performer: Cookiezi/Shigetora
