How to Play

## Welcome to KALPA

This is the title screen when you open KALPA. The characters, from left to right, is Kalpa and Noah.

This is the title screen when you open KALPA (before ver.1.0.26. The character shown is Kalpa, the main character of KALPA.

## Main Menu

This is the main menu of KALPA. There are various options you can go from here.

Top Left

* Profile: Your Icon, Frame, and Title will be shown here
* Ranking: Thumb Ranking on the left, Multi-Finger Ranking on the right
* Announcements
* Mail Box: For recieving rewards (Dark Area, Crowdfunding, etc.)
* Achievements
* Guide Mission: Aste's Warm Guide Mission is for newcomers of KALPA.

Top Right

* Astral Melody: Used for playing in Dark Area.
* Energy: Can be used for Mero's Lab projects, as well as Dark Area rerolls.
* Dark Matter: Mainly used for reversing in Contellation, but can be used for Mero's Lab projects, stickers, and backgrounds for the main menu
* Fragment: The main currency for the Pleiades Shop. Fragments can be obtained using real life currency.
* Settings: The settings for the game (Graphics, Sound, Account etc.)

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Left

* Missions: Aste's Guide Mission and Periodic Missions (Daily and Weekly) can be found here.

Right

* Free Play: Play unlocked songs/difficulties
* Pleiades Shop: The store for Star Fragments, Charaters, Skins, and Music Packs
* Dark Area: Play against other players to compete in Cumulative, Thumb, or Multi-Finger Ranking
* Constell: Unlock character's Skill, Story, and Relations by "reversing" their levels
* Noah: Play through the story of Kalpa & Noah to unlock a music pack
* Mero's Lab: Unlocks specific Music Packs and their stories by doing missions for each song

## Appearance

This is the appearance page, located on the Top Right of the Main Menu. You can choose and change your Icon, Border, Title, Background and Character appearance for KALPA. You can also view your Play Information (Finished Achievements, Dark Area scores, Play Records) and your current Reverse levels for every character.

## Pleiades

This is the shop page of KALPA. You can purchase song packages, star fragments, note skins and more!

Star Fragments

Music Pack

Play skin

Character/Skin

## Settings

This is the sync adjustment screen. You can change the offset settings of the hit time during gameplay.

This is the panel page for adjusting the play area. You can adjust the panel width, visual and system judgement line, and many more. You can also change your note skin and stickers here.

## Song Selection

This is the song selection screen.

* The **Green** indicator will appear on the left of the song if you have cleared the song normally
* The **Red** indicator will appear on the left of the song if you have cleared the song with Risk mode on
* The **Purple** indicator will appear on the left of the song if you have cleared the song with All Combo
* The **Pink** indicator will appear on the left of the song if you have cleared the song with All Perfect

Top Left

* Current Main Character: Their Favored Music will be shown here

Normal, Hard, Hard+, and Abyss are optimized with thumbs (only two fingers required)

S.Hard, S.Hard+, Chaos, and Cosmos difficulty requires multiple fingers to play (three fingers or more)

The play option screen getting ready to play

* Chart Variation
	+ Mirror: Flip all notes vertically
	+ Random: Note arrangements appear at random

NoneNote Mode "Mirror"Note Mode "Random"
* Play Condition
	+ Risk: HP gauge starts at 100% (Miss = HP gauge reduces by 15%. If the gauge reaches 0%, you will fail.)
	+ All Combo: Fails if 1 or more notes were not hit
	+ All Perfect: Fails is 1 or more notes were not hit perfectly

NonePlay Mode "Risk"Play Mode "All Combo"Play Mode "All Perfect"
* Play Skin: Change your preset of note skins
	+ Metal
	+ Holographic
	+ Luminous
	+ Normal
	+ Ocean
	+ Mint
	+ Neon

Note Skin "Metal"Note Skin "Metal (Hold)"Note Skin "Holographic"Note Skin "Luminous"Note Skin "Normal"Note Skin "Ocean"Note Skin "Mint"Note Skin "Neon"Note Skin "Neon (Hold)"
* Speed: Change the note speed
* Play SE: Change the Sound Effect
* Sticker: Change your presets of stickers

## Play Screen

This is the loading screen before you start playing the song

This is the playing screen of KALPA.
*For note skins, please refer above.*

* Top Left - Song Jacket, Name, Artist, Difficulty and Level
* Left (Middle) - HP indicator (70% pass rate)
* Top Right - Pause, Retry, Resume, Exit

There will be background changes depending on the score of your play performance (eg. 1 Miss, 50% HP, 100% HP)

Play Background 0% HPPlay Background ~40% HPPlay Background ~70% HPPlay Background ~80% HP
## Result

Here is the result screen for the song you played each time.

Max Combo ≠ Total Amount of Notes

(eg. 443 is the total amount of notes for The Breeze (HARD+), but the max combo is 849.)

*Note Holds will count of 1 perfect note, but the max combo will be affected from the duration of the note hold. The longer the note hold, the higher the max combo will be.*