MASALA FIX: A Bollywood Rhythm Game | マサラ修理

Repair-stall rhythm game

MASALA FIX: A Bollywood Rhythm Game is a PC rhythm game set at a repair stall on a busy Indian street. Customers bring appliances that make odd rhythms, and you use a hammer to play along and get them working. There are no notes to follow: after a 3, 2, 1 count-in, you hit four spots on the appliance with D, F, J and K for 32 bars, choosing where and how often to strike.

Your hits are scored on timing, tone and phrasing. Pink cells mark offbeat hits, which score the most, and keeping those hits coming earns a run bonus. Hits closer to the grid score better for timing; matching BOOM sounds to low parts of a song and TING sounds to high parts improves your tone score. Repeating a phrase and changing it a little every fourth bar makes a fill. Play well and the hits become part of the music; fall short and the customer haggles you down, or the appliance blows up.