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Project Arrhythmia is a Bullet Hell Rhythm Game developed by Vitamin Games and released in early access on Steam on June 14th, 2019. The game follows Anna Schroeder, a.k.a A-tan, attempting to find a cure for the Tokyo Flu, a virus that has ravaged the world, with her supercomputer assistant Hal. The game also comes with a Level Editor which can be used to create custom levels and upload them to the Steam Workshop.
The game's website can be viewed here
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Project Arrhythmia contains examples of:
- Boss Bonanza: Some level creators have made "boss rush" levels consisting of many bosses, usually by different people, all sharing a spotlight.
- Boss-Only Level: A majority of custom levels to the point where it has become the norm, including the ones in the level storylines, which the vast majority of said storylines only consisting of boss levels, a trend started by the level series Black Heart. Some level creators have only made boss levels.
- Bullet Hell: You have to dodge bullets, beams, bombs, boss attacks, and the like. Some custom levels empathize bullet hell more than others.
- Downloadable Content: Custom levels are found and downloaded on the Steam Workshop.
- Fan Nickname: A popular one being "Hal" for Nano, coming from a misconception that the "Hal" that A-tan refers to on the post-level screen is, in fact, Nano. Word of God has requested fans not use this name for Nano though, despite a fair amount of fans and custom levels still referring to Nano as "Hal".
- Guide Dang It!: What some people new to the level editor experience upon opening it, despite later versions of the game including resources to get started on level making.
- Killer App: Black Heart can be seen as this.
- Level Editor: There is a "robust level editor" included in the game that people can use to make levels, which includes the ability to make "prefabs", a premade model that can be created or imported, and different filters and effects that can be used for levels.
- Mascot: Pam for PA: Memories [2], and N-chan for the level editor.
- Milestone Celebration: Every year for the game's anniversary, many creators get together and start months in advance to remake their or other people's parts of levels for "PA: Memories", a megacollab that's supposed to showcase the many creations of the community over the past year. The second one was so big that it had to be split into two parts!
- Nanomachines: Well... Nano, and the rest of the nanobots.
- No Plot? No Problem!: There is currently no story mode since the game is still in early access, but one is in the works. Averted with the custom level storylines.
- Year X: The game's story takes place in 205X.
Take a shot...
- Every time you see a joke level while browsing the workshop.
- Every time you see a level with a Teminite song.
- One extra shot for every time you've seen another level with the same song.
- Every time you see a Gyntening level.
- When you see the phrase "not Black Heart" in said Gyntening level.
- When a character in the level dies a bloody death.
- When you see the phrase "not Black Heart" in said Gyntening level.
- Every time you see a level with just the letter "h" in it.
- Same goes with "tbh".
- Every time you see a reference to another level in a level.
- Two shots if it's a level you don't recognize.
- Every time the boss just floats in the middle of the screen and does nothing else.
- Every time a level has a subliminal message in it.
- Take a lick every time you see a boss level.
- When a character in the level refers to Nano as "Hal".
- Two shots if it's a completely different name.
- If the boss attacks you for no reason.
- If Nano is a different color besides their default one.
- If the level starts with simple beams/bombs.
- If the level you're playing is part of a storyline.
- Two shots if you haven't played the levels in the storyline before that one and have no idea what's going on.
- Take three shots if the boss goes in the background and suddenly grows big.
- If the level you're playing is stylized after a Just Shapes & Beats level.
- If the boss blames Nano for something.
- Two shots if it's something it didn't actually do.
If the level you're playing is a ol666 one...
- Take a LICK every time you see the Black Heart logo. If you want a death sentence, you can upgrade this to a shot.
- Take a shot if Jestar appears in the level.
- Take a shot every time something bad happens to a character.
- Two if it's Nautilus.
- Take a shot if the game lags.
- Finish your drink if the game crashes.
- Take a shot if a level/character appears again after their first appearance and their design looks different.
- Take two shots if you're playing "the new" or "the moon is getting AWAY!"
- Take a shot if the level you're playing isn't part of Black Heart.
- Two if you thought the level WAS part of it.
