Partitas Reviews

Nice game, but it's too short. Also, the time signature and the key signature are missing. For a classical music lover, this is unacceptable. If it was Erik Satie's, it's OK. But in this case, it's Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, etc. Sorry, but it's a no for me.

Partitas is an adorable game with a stunning soundtrack made of great classical pieces. If you enjoy listening to classical music and is interested in music theory I highly reccomend you to buy this game!! The pixel art is lovable and gameplay, despite being simple, is quite enjoyable.

I only recommend this game to someone who actually know about musical notes otherwise you have to brute force the whole game. since I didn't know anything about notes, I thought I could learn them by listening to them through this game but I was wrong. I wished the game could learn me step by step on how to read or hear the notes but that's asking too much for it's price. Partitas is more of a practice game for musicians rather than a learning game for someone with no knowledge of musical notes.

This game is good, but it'd be so much better with proper key signatures, accidentals, etc.

I know a decent amount about reading sheet music (singing/some piano) but I've always found it pretty hard to identify notes by ear, so this game intrigued me! I thought it might be good practice, and it would help that the music was likely going to be familiar enough already. And I'm sure it could be very helpful... for someone much more disciplined than me. Like I said, I love the idea! The art is charming! And (whether it was done for this reason or not) I often found that when I was stumped I could find clues in the surrounding notes (looking at a slur/stem from multiple eighth notes and being able to guess that the note was higher or lower than the surrounding notes, etc.) and I found that really cool. I think the playback function could stand to be tweaked a little bit. For one, the rectangle marking each note seemed a bit behind, so it wasn't playing the missing note when it was highlighted, and that tended to throw me off. It would've been lovely to be able to slow down the song or even be able to click on an individual note to hear it by itself! An option for later levels to isolate the treble and bass clefs to listen to one at a time would've been nice, too. (Though the description says the full song is played by an actual pianist, so I understand if it's only a playback of a live recording all of these suggestions would probably be more difficult.) I think an option to click on the notes at the bottom and hear the note played would also be nice, since you could actually listen to the note you're choosing, but this would probably require some way of changing the octave as well, so it would ramp up the difficulty quite a bit... The biggest issue is that it immediately tells you if you got it right. This normally isn't a problem, in fact I usually hate when a game tells me I've gotten 3/4 things right but it won't tell me which one is incorrect! But once it started getting more difficult (compounded by the playback issues above) I felt completely lost, and then it just became a pure guessing game. I tried to listen and figure it out, I really did, but when it came to some of the later levels I flew through several of them without once pressing play because, well, the game would just tell me when I was right and the playback wasn't terribly helpful to me anyway. Lazy, yes, I know, but it felt impossible and it was hard to resist the temptation. All that aside, it's a fine game for what it is. Again, if you're more disciplined than I am, it will likely be much more useful to you than it was for me!

I've never been trained in music, though it is something I've always wanted to pursue. When it comes to reading music, all I know is FACE -- the blank spaces on the treble clef (top section of score), from bottom to top, house the notes F, A, C, and E, and from there I just count for the other notes. While you can technically play this game without any knowledge of music whatsoever (it's just dragging and dropping notes and there is no penalty for wrong answers), I don't think someone without an interest in learning about music would have much fun. Maybe if the notes in the score could be clicked to hear the individual notes, or the notes in the score could be changed to display the letter, someone without any experience could more easily suss out the correct note properly. But without any help, I think it'd be too tempting for many to just brute force it and drag each note until one works. For me, I had fun trying to figure it out the hard way. I have an undeveloped musical ear and, like I said, very little musical knowledge, so it was fun challenge trying to push what little I did know while listening to nice music. Many of the pieces were new to me, but I've never purposefully listened to classical music outside of putting on a premade playlist for study music. I do have to mention that the game is a little buggy. The blue bar that is supposed to highlight each note as it's played is not always timed correctly. If you press play again while the music is already playing, it will start playing from the beginning but the bar will not reset to highlight the notes played. Sometimes, the notes will be undraggable, but I've found that if I just scroll the screen to the side a little bit, I'm able to drag the notes again. Though the game can be a bit buggy, it's nothing too annoying in my opinion, and I haven't encountered anything game-breaking. One other small gripe I have is that it was hard to tell how I was progressing. There's no progress bar for each section and no display of coins when earned for completing a piece -- you can only view your progress through the Portfolio found in the pause menu or main menu (and even then, only songs completed vs. those unvisited out of the entire game) and view your total coins in the pause menu or in the Emporium in the main menu (and speaking of, I wish the Emporium was accessible from the pause menu like the Portfolio is). If you're wondering, there are 10 pieces per section and 3 total sections. But despite its quirks, it's a fun little game for a dollar. I'd recommend that you go ahead and get it if it sounds interesting to you. I had fun and I have zero regrets.

I love the fact this game exists, because classical music is one of my favourite things in the world. There were however a few things I can think of improvements for. First, some pieces reveal the key outright and some do not, but no sheet has the key signature written before the clef. It'd be nice if it were at least consistent: if one knows their key signatures, I doubt it'll spoil the challenge to have them written. If they do not, then it'll at least help get the player acquainted with key signatures. So it'd be nice to have the key written, even if it's not in the title (eg. Sonata no. 31 op. 110 in Ab major, Beethoven). It would also be nice to see performer names and progress bars for each recording. Finally, I would've liked to see more complete challenges, such as entire melody lines missing. This would mean a good dozen more pieces, though. I really enjoyed the concept and would like to see more like it with some improvements in design. In fact, it would be really cool if this concept were expanded to more thoroughly teach the basics of theory, such as specific interval practice, circle of fifths etc. I'd love to see that done somewhere.

This is a solid and low-stress music theory game that is really nothing else than filling in missing music notation. Each song has a handful of missing notes and there's no timers or mistake penalties or anything like that. It has a nice wide range of classical, baroque, and even some early Romantic. Nothing contemporary so John Cage fans are out of luck but that would be pretty weird, all things considered. You can only pause or restart the loop and not quite work it like a proper DAW but for a .99 game clearly made with love, this is a silly criticism on my part. If you have even a slight interest in musical notation or classical music, this is a great way to drop 99 cents on Steam.

Unless you already are musically trained or at least have a fairly good ear for music, you will be brute-forcing this entire game. It's not a very good puzzle game as it doesn't teach you any of the rules of music, doesn't let you hear the notes before trying them on the sheets, doesn't give you any indication of what the notes already on the sheets are and doesn't punish you for brute-forcing every puzzle. I was hoping for a little bit of education on music, the tracks included and some of the composers but this is a bare-bones experience that doesn't challenge you and teaches you nothing.

I am surprised how there's a game with classical music tag on it and it is 100% classical music related game. I really appreciate your work and your fascinating idea by emerging the classical elements with filling the notes into the score. It's like doing a ear training puzzles. However, some of the notes on the score sometimes lack flat and sharp signs, and the rhythm for some pieces played by midi is not consistent enough with the recording. Other details like trans animations and play/pause buttons also have some glitch. The music is great tho.