History VideoGame / TheatrhythmFinalFantasy

* MagicKnight: Ashe, Sephiroth, Serah and Equilibrium Lightning are the closest examples although other characters are such as Faris, Cecil, Lightning and the Onion Knight [[MixAndMatch branching out]] to TheSneakyGuy, ThePaladin, and JackOfAllStats.

-->-- '''Nobuo Uematsu'''

* MinimalistRun: If you want a high score, the game rewards you for making it through a song with no abilities or items equipped with a Stoic bonus of 2,000,000 points. Thankfully removed in the sequel, where there's no artificial restrictions for higher ranks.

** ''All-star Carnival'' not only revives you upon death, but doesn't even give you a score penalty.

** In ''Final Bar Line'', shortly after the game's release, players discovered that their save file can end up corrupted, making them unable to access some game modes (such as Music Stages) or even to access the title screen at all. This can happen if the player deletes a set of Summon Stones and closes the game without leaving the Summon Stone menu (triggering the auto-save to confirm the deletions). Deleting your save file or starting a new file under a new profile allows players to resume playing. The two bugs were eventually fixed.

** In ''Final Bar Line'', shortly after the game's release, players discovered that their save file can end up corrupted, making them unable to access some game modes (such as Music Stages) or even to access the title screen at all. This can happen if the player deletes a set of Summon Stones and closes the game without leaving the Summon Stone menu (triggering the auto-save to confirm the deletions). Deleting your save file or starting a new file under a new profile allows players to resume playing, but the issue remains.

** ''All-star Carnival'' has the Transcendance difficulty on some songs, requires a sufficiently good performance on the song's Ultimate chart. Whereas Ultimate charts top out at level 10, Transcendence charts are rated ''at least'' level 11, making Ultimate charts look like a child's toy. It is also available in the demo version of ''Final Bar Line'', this time named "Supreme" difficulty in the English localization.

** The background for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV "A Long Fall"]] in ''Final Bar Line'' features four spotlights--a blue one, a green one, and two red ones--referencing the viral [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NApxz5bSl20 twinning.mp4]] video. What's more, the beatmap for the Supreme difficulty [[https://twitter.com/yamadaaaarrrr/status/1625940711408562176 lines up with]] the dance from [=FanFest=] 2021.

** From F, up to SSS, with the stoic bonus. In the sequel, stats are rated on the same scale as well.

** In ''Final Bar Line'', shortly after the game's release, players discovered that their save file can end up corrupted, making them unable to access some game modes (such as Music Stages) or even to access the title screen at all. Deleting your save file or starting a new file under a new profile allows players to resume playing, but the issue remains.

* SummonMagic: By scoring well in certain sections of Battle Stages, you can summon [[FireIceLightning Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh]], [[DiagonalCut Odin]], or [[NonElemental Bahamut]]. The sequel adds [[BadassArmy Knights of the Round]] and [[JokeCharacter Chocobo]] into the mix.

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* LethalJokeCharacter: Several characters, most prominently Cid and Princess Sarah. Both have pitiful stats and are limited to support abilities, but Cid has Libra Lv3 and Luck Up Lv3 making him invaluable in Dark Notes[[note]]Each of the three bosses in a Dark Note has three random items to steal but you don't know what they are, Libra Lv3 reveals one boss's entire inventory when you receive a new Dark Note with Cid in the party[[/note]], while Sarah eventually learns Soul Voice, doubling the power of her song abilities and thus affording the entire party large 40 point buffs to the stats of your choice, because she learns the songs for all four base stats, and others.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Curtain Call'' has a version of this. It came with a special 3DS pouch, 2 [=CDs=] with best of and remixed songs, and physical [=CollectaCards=]. First-run copies of the game came with a smaller version that came with just the remix CD.

* PinataEnemy: Defeating a Magic Pot in a Battle Stage will guarantee a large experience award and a decent chance for a good item, while Pupu is not as valuable experience-wise but has excellent item drops.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Chocobo

A console version, ''Theathrhythm: Final Bar Line'', came out on February 16, 2023 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It is a console adaptation of ''All Star Carnival'', using the same gameplay mechanics such as chords of multiple notes and the more difficult-to-achieve "rainbow Critical" note judgement. This version allows for local two-player multiplayer and online four-player versus multiplayer. The base game is set to have 385 songs at launch with additional 90 songs pulled from Square Enix's catalouge added via three Season Passes. The Deluxe Version is notable for including remixes of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' songs Aerith's Theme and Cosmo Canyon that were originally created for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.

A console version, ''Theathrhythm: Final Bar Line'', was announced to be coming out on February 16, 2023 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It is a console adaptation of ''All Star Carnival'', using the same gameplay mechanics such as chords of multiple notes and the more difficult-to-achieve "rainbow Critical" note judgement. This version allows for local two-player multiplayer and online four-player versus multiplayer. The base game is set to have 385 songs at launch with additional 90 songs pulled from Square Enix's catalouge added via three Season Passes.

* GameBreakingBug: In ''Curtain Call'', if in an Inherited Quest you go to a space and the space in prior players' iterations uses a DLC track you don't have, the game will quietly substitute that track with one you do have, and if the space you're on is a BMS space, the game will use the monsters of the last BMS track you played. [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/730860-theatrhythm-final-fantasy-curtain-call/70511485 This can be used to one's advantage to easily farm certain rare drops]], but unfortunately, under certain circumstances, most notably playing that space without having played a previous track since loading the game up or using a Gambler's Spirit to change the song to another one, the game will crash and send you back to the 3DS home menu.

** The background for [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV "A Long Fall"]] in ''Final Bar Line'' features four spotlights--a blue one, a green one, and two red ones--referencing the viral [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NApxz5bSl20 twinning.mp4]] video.

** ''All-star Carnival'' has the Transcendance difficulty on some songs, requires a sufficiently good performance on the song's Ultimate chart. Whereas Ultimate charts top out at level 10, Transcendence charts are rated ''at least'' level 11, making Ultimate charts look like a child's toy.

A console version, ''Theathrhythm: Final Bar Line'', was announced to be coming out on February 16, 2023 for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. This version allows for local two-player multiplayer and online four-player versus multiplayer. The base game is set to have 385 songs at launch with additional 90 songs pulled from Square Enix's catalouge added via three Season Passes.

** ''Final Bar Line'' adds a lot of accessibility features, such as color-blind button prompts, reduced button prompt speed, obscuring or disabling the background animation, removing camera movement when a summon arrives, and so on.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In the sequel, if you play FMS levels with button controls, you don't have to follow the hold triggers exactly like you have to with the stylus: just holding the circle pad in the direction the line is currently travelling causes the cursor to snap to it. Hitting the slide triggers at the end of said hold triggers with button controls takes some getting used to though. Two more are for Chaos Notes in the sequel: a Fortune Sphere will change a song to a lower difficulty level to make clearing a particularly troublesome song less of a hassle, and a Gambler's Soul will change a song to a random other song of the same type - particularly valuable for changing songs in boss fights into something that will have more triggers (allowing the player to do more damage).