History VideoGame / KickBeat

* UpdatedRerelease: The UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} edition, which reduced a lot of the unlock grinding and made importing custom songs a bit easier.

''[=KickBeat=]'' is a martial arts-themed RhythmGame released by Creator/ZenStudios for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Wii U}}. It follows the story of a trainee martial artist who enrolled at an order of monks tasked with guarding a giant sphere that contains all the music ever thought of in the past and future. When a group of mercenaries suddenly raids the monastery where the sphere is kept, it's up to said trainee to travel the world in search of the mysterious Earth Organization, all the while rhythmically beating down every mook that comes his way.

** For convenience of skeletal animation, allowing one set of heels basically means the female fighters need to keep that same posture in any outfit. When in a MartialArtsUniform and barefoot they stay on the balls of their feet ''as if'' wearing heels (though it looks natural enough in context); the "cyber-armor" still elevates the heel but replaces the spike with a bladelike tapered sole which fills the space under the foot and looks semi-practical.

* CameraScrew: Uncommon, but there are rare points where the camera zooms out of a slow-motion close-up shot with enemies much closer to attacking than usual.

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* ShoutOut: The Yellow mook's "virtual" skin has a helmet that looks a bit [[{{Music/DaftPunk}} Thomas Bangalter]]-esque.
* UpdatedRerelease: The {{Steam}} edition, which reduced a lot of the unlock grinding and made importing custom songs a bit easier.

''[=KickBeat=]'' is a martial arts-themed RhythmGame released by Creator/ZenStudios for the PlayStation3, PlayStation4, PlayStationVita, {{Steam}}, and {{Wii U}}. It follows the story of a trainee martial artist who enrolled at an order of monks tasked with guarding a giant sphere that contains all the music ever thought of in the past and future. When a group of mercenaries suddenly raids the monastery where the sphere is kept, it's up to said trainee to travel the world in search of the mysterious Earth Organization, all the while rhythmically beating down every mook that comes his way.

''[=KickBeat=]'' is a martial arts-themed RhythmGame released by Zen Studios for the PS3, PS Vita and {{Steam}}. It follows the story of a trainee martial artist who enrolled at an order of monks tasked with guarding a giant sphere that contains all the music ever thought of in the past and future. When a group of mercenaries suddenly raids the monastery where the sphere is kept, it's up to said trainee to travel the world in search of the mysterious Earth Organization, all the while rhythmically beating down every mook that comes his way.

* BreatherLevel: Most of [=EnV=]'s tracks have clear and very steady rhythms; players are more likely to trance out and get caught by a change than to simply lose through difficulty, and the tracks are spread throughout the setlist.
** While there's no such thing as an easy level in Survival mode, on every fifth song your [[SuperMode Chi mode]] is permanently on for the entire song, giving you less to keep track of and removing some of the visual distraction.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow enemies come on the beat, blue enemies come on both the beats and half-beats, and red enemies come on two directions at once.

* RadialAsskicking: It might as well have been named ''RadialAsskicking: The Rhythm Game''.

''[=KickBeat=]'' is a martial arts-themed RhythmGame released by Zen Studios for the PS3, PS Vita and {{Steam}}. It follows the story of a trainee martial artist who enrolled at an order of monks tasked with guarding a giant sphere that contains all the music ever thought of in the past and future. When a group of mercenaries suddenly raids the monastery where the sphere is kept, it's up to said trainee to travel the world in search of the remaining members of the mysterious Earth Organization, all the while rhythmically beating down every mook that comes his way.

* ShockwaveStomp: One of the powerups in the game does this, wiping out all mooks that have drawn close enough at that particular moment to make their colours visible.