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Title	Developer	Publisher	Release date	Regular Price	Bundled	Cards	Status	Achievements	Playtime	Cards idling
Frederic: Evil Strikes Back	Forever Entertainment S. A.	Forever Entertainment S. A.	2014-05-23	7,99 €	✓	✓	Beaten	14 of 18 (78%)	about 3 hours	1.6 h

Already beaten the first Frederic¹ some time ago, now its sequel has fallen too. Only in easy mode though =P
There aren’t many differences between the two, so pick the one that you can get more easily. Fun fact: I won both on public sg GAs, and on the same day! :D

I don’t know if there’s any (musical) keyboard for PC.. perhaps any new (and professional?) model could act as peripheral.. well, if have one, use it!
This is the main issue I’ve with this game(s), (computer) keyboards aren’t good to play them :\
It could almost suffice if they allowed you to use any key but, instead, you’re limited to letters only :\
All of this could be just a problem of mine ‘cause my laptop keyboard is not comfortable as the PC’s one.. I think in that one I could even play with only one hand as I can move swiftly between keys. But on this laptop I cannot so I need to use both hands. If I recall right, the default mapping uses WERASDF which are too “crowded” for me, so I settled for SHJZCBM (QWERTY layout) which allow me too separate hands but I would have liked to move them a bit further away because it still feels uncomfortable to play. Again, it could be because of my small keyboard.

Other than that, the game’s nothing special, feels like many other rhythmic games I’ve played. What’s good is the soundtrack. Since you basically play as Chopin come back from the dead to challenge contemporary musicians, songs have classical tones with opponents’ style’s influences. Cool if you ask me :)
Ok, if you don’t believe me, listen to the song played during the match vs. Fred Quid and tell me it doesn’t sound familiar (there are others but I thought this could be the most familiar of all)

It’s not very long (on easy difficulty, at least) so you could give it a try even if you aren’t good at rhythm games :)
Warning though: at higher difficulties may induce rage and frustration. But if you manage to beat those harder difficulties, please, teach me senpai.

EDIT: ~~Don’t know why but anchors seem to work only if opened in a new tab.~~ fixed :) ↩

mandrill

Don’t know why but anchors seem to work only if opened in a new tab.

That’s because you used <a name=... as anchor, but that’s not valid HTML5. The browser logic for scrolling to anchors kicks in for fresh tabs, and browers really love to guess about broken HTML, so everything works (by chance). But when you open a link in the same tab, the site gets to do it’s scrolling magic (you might remember, there was some ticket from you about it that I’m too lazy to search right now). That scrolling magic doesn’t handle <a name.

I guess I’ll make the scrolling magic (and the id prefixing in the markdown parser) handle <a name just for convience, it’s a common mistake. But who knows when, so if you want to fix this, just edit the linked-to post and change the <a name=... to <a id=.... And then you’ll also want to move it down to where it actually belongs, because the site scrolling magic will take care that the anchor doesn’t end up behind the nav bar. … and theeen you’ll have to change the link in this post, because the anchor id will be prefixed with the post id.

(And this post reminded me that the automatically generated footnote anchors aren’t prefixed, either. Should fix that sometime, too.)

malabagaa

I had tried with <a id=... first but it didn’t work either (actually, worse, it doesn’t even work in a new tab). Leaving id there if you want to check.

Oh, ok, moved a bit up higher for that very reason, gonna put it back to its place now. thanks :)

..and since you’re reading I’ll repost this: notice that code can be seen through spoilers. Wrote it time ago but you may have missed.

mandrill

Well, anchor ids are prefixed with the post id so they don’t collide in the feed, so in this case your original id frederic is changed to post-kle8mml-frederic. This should work. (… well, it does, but the scrolling magic doesn’t. Huh. I’ll look into that later.)

malabagaa

Oh, totally forgot about that feature, sorry >_<
and thanks ^_^

killergege

But if you manage to beat those harder difficulties, please, teach me senpai.

Easy : I play with a laptop that has a touchscreen ;). This way, even the Chopin difficulty feels quite easy (except the Ireland level, this one’s crazy).
Now the real difficulty : find someone to get the multiplayer achievements ! (didn’t manage to find anyone, I’ll have to stalk the game’s steam forums ^^)

malabagaa

Ooh, that’s a smart move! Sadly, I don’t own one =P

Luckily, this installment doesn’t have achievements that require MP :)

Other than the forum, you could try asking here or on sg directly; there are also groups dedicated to MP on Steam, and even on discord, most gaming-related server have a “looking for..” channel.. Whatever way you choose, good luck! it’s not always easy to find a partner to less played games :\

killergege

Oh right, that’s the first “Frederic..” that has a few multiplayer achievements. No multiplayer on this one.
What makes the multiplayer achievements hard to get is that you need to play (and win) at least 10 games to get them. On the other side, you just need to find someone that accept to start a game, he doesn’t even have to play ;).