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Evangelion Shin Gekijouban - 3nd Impact

Evangelion Shin Gekijouban - 3nd Impact

Evangelion Shin Gekijouban - 3nd Impact is a PSP music and rhythm game released in 2011 developed by Grasshopper Manufacture. It centers on music, rhythm, and performance, beat recognition, and button or peripheral timing, with controls and information arranged around the directional pad, single analog nub, shoulder and face buttons, with a camera or another accessory only where required.

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Evangelion Shin Gekijouban - 3nd Impact is a PSP music and rhythm game centered on music, rhythm, and performance, beat recognition, and button or peripheral timing. Songs and difficulty tiers support short repeated practice, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Music, input prompts, and synchronized performance carry the appeal, while the portable widescreen, UMD streaming, compressed audio, and handheld-scale interface need to preserve targets, text, and action readability. The genre-specific limitation is that calibration, input latency, peripheral conditions, and dense charts can affect precision. Platform conditions also include single-nub camera control, UMD loading and noise, Memory Stick saves, battery life, regional language, ad hoc requirements, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

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6.1 / 10PlayStation Portable

Film music appeals more consistently than the rhythm minigames.

Sound Impact breaks Evangelion film material into six rhythm minigames instead of recreating playable mech combat. Imitating Angel inputs, uncovering panels, adjusting a waveform and jumping obstacles ask players to watch and react differently. Angel rounds and running stages communicate their goals relatively directly; waveform adjustment can feel more like visual correction than satisfying musical performance. Thirty normal tracks are quickly exhausted, with hard charts and gallery unlocks supplying practice targets. Repeated arrangements and uneven difficulty reduce that variety. Film music, character comments and familiar footage provide recognizable fan appeal, but excessive effects sometimes obscure essential markers. The PSP version permits alternative buttons for some actions, and holding L changes the running camera to expose upcoming obstacles. These aids help, without fully resolving the collection's inconsistent readability and rhythm feedback.

Strengths

  • Six input ideas and hard charts offer distinct short-session practice targets.
  • Film music and character result comments provide recognizable fan appeal.

Weaknesses

  • Effects obscure markers in some stages, and waveform control connects weakly with musical rhythm.

Who it is for: For fans of the first two Rebuild films who want a short-session music minigame collection.

Play notes: Not a mech-action game; headphones are advisable, L changes the running view, and hard charts can remain visually demanding.

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Hard charts and gallery goals justify practice beyond the short campaign, though repetition dominates the extension.

Reviewed6.1 / 10Not provided
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Some activities communicate well, but inconsistent rhythm feedback prevents the varied formats from consistently feeling musical.

Reviewed5.8 / 10Not provided
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Familiar material and comments appeal to fans, but obstructive effects compromise rhythm-game communication.

Reviewed6.4 / 10Not provided
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Alternative inputs and the running-camera option materially aid control, without solving every minigame's usability equally.

Reviewed6.8 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Publisher
Bandai
Release date
2011
Platforms
PlayStation Portable
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
Rhythm-based PlaySolo-friendlyReplayableFast-pacedPick-up and PlayMain Story Under 10 HoursMusic Performance3D GraphicsAnime StylePlayer versus PlayerShort Sessions
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Single player
Perspectives
Side viewThird person

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