I can't take playing this garbage anymore. Hiragana Pixel Party must have been made by a robot, as no human being would have ever let this trash get through quality assurance, unless it was being marketed as some sort of insanity test. It's not a good rhythm game, and it's certainly not a good way to learn to read Japanese considering the randomness of the hiragana layout on the buttons. No one hiragana character is ever assigned to the same button twice, which makes it difficult to spot the hiragana you need quickly while trying to memorize the correct order of buttons you need to press to succeed. The difficulty ranges from unbearably easy (one character...ONE CHARACTER) to literally impossibly hard (levels with more than four characters--there are only four buttons with one hiragana assigned to each button, but sometimes the game will ask you to input five hiragana in one go, with no button assigned to the fifth character!).

The chiptunes sound like they threw a bunch of 8-bit soundtracks into a blender and fed it to a robot who then had explosive diarrhea all over my ear canals. The robotic squeal of the pixel girl make me want to remove my eardrums with a screwdriver. This game sucks and nobody should ever, ever buy it.

I can't believe I wasted eight dollars and five hours of my life on this abysmal, soulless nonsense. Make yourself some hiragana flash cards, they're cheaper, less time consuming for you to practice, more helpful, and more fun. Trying to enjoy this game on any level is ふかのう.