Rhythm Gaming in Revolution Terms by Serenity Earl

Incubation Stage

searl28 — 2025-09-17 11:38:08 UTC

The first thing that happens is loading into a song , it's a song you don't know but you're confident in your good skills. The feelings you feel are powerful and confident. Again without knowing much about the song you know you know how good your skills are , after all you've been playing this game for years now so nothing should be shocking right? These feelings lead you to happy emotions and a tough and big ego believing you to think " I got this ". These acts and emotion represents the incubation stage of revolution because starting off these stages has to start with a few feelings of worry.

Moderate Stage

searl28 — 2025-09-17 11:40:51 UTC

When entering the song you realize how hard this song might be. Your strong emotions from before start to decrease but not by a lot. You're confident in your skills so there aren't any major decreasing feelings even though you don't know much about the song itself , but you have your belief that you'll pass this easily. There are some struggles but notes are still being hit perfectly so you think " as long as you have your full combo you can still stand strong ". These thoughts represent the moderate stage of revolution due to the experience of the actions and thoughts before going into the crisis stage.

Crisis Stage

searl28 — 2025-09-17 11:41:00 UTC

There are notes all over your screen , your hands start to ache due to all the fast movement. There are many spam notes , very tricky but you focus. You attempt to block out your surrounding distractions so that you're locked in and really focus. Due to that increase of your ego from the beginning you refuse to lose. You've gotta win , there are many notes but you still have your combo so you think " Oh yea , I've got this ". These actions and feelings represent the crisis stage of revolution because this is what people experiencing it do , think and feel.

Recovery

searl28 — 2025-09-17 11:41:08 UTC

Whew and finally the song ends , the feelings of relief and peace start to emerge. You can finally see your score that shows a full combo , there are a few greats but more perfectly notes that were hit. You feel good about your score , fully hitting every note earning a full combo that's well deserved. After a while you think about your emotions and pain you felt during the song and you come to the conclusion ' I'll never play that song again ". These thoughts represents the recovery stage due to feeling relieved and free again which is what people do , think and feel during this stage of revolution.