The Arama Archives

"***The Arama Archive** is a secret spin-off of **Just Shapes & Beats** in which all things beautiful are deadly. Avoid the musically timed pulse of blocks and bars, and in the process you might just find out what this mysterious "Arama Archives" is.*"
— Tagline

**Spoiler Alert!**

This entire page contains spoilers for the story of **The Arama Archives**. It is recommended to play TAA before proceeding this page!

You have been warned...

**The Arama Archives** is a spin-off of *Just Shapes & Beats* mentioned above. This storyline was originally created by the artist of Visual Arcade, Protagonist4, and was converted to *Just Shapes & Beats*. It is an alternative storyline branching from the game's Story Mode where after defeating the Boss in Till It's Over, another scene from another universe has occurred. Someone known as The Cat stole The Heart from its placement and that causes for the virus named Aurora Flu to be released. The cube decided to help after finding this out and went to that universe. There it met another cube named Neon who was the child of the owner of *Project Heart*, a project to find a cure for it but was killed after getting infected and now remains inside the supercomputer with the cube.

In Protagonist4's YouTube channel, the spin-off has a trailer in which it explains briefly about the Aurora Flu. There also is the player (called Cyan in the video) and Neon that found out who is behind all this but after the release, this was converted to an opening once you found out the password of it.

The password for you to play this game is: **up down up down, left right left right, A, B, start** (controller) or **up down up down, left right left right, A, B, enter** (keyboard).

## Notes

* The mechanics of this game is the same where you can still play as multiplayer, same controls, same deaths, same modes but there is an opening to the game and also has different menu mechanics.
* The levels of this game can be played in the main Challenge Mode and Playlist Mode.
	+ The levels will be unlocked in the Playlist after completing them.
* All of the levels are boss battles.
* Unlike the main game, this game has checkpoints despite being all boss battles.
* All of the level songs are in full length with no cut outs or edited variants.
* Instead of just being pink, the obstacles and bosses are in different colors.
* The game isn't done yet so this is just the early access.
	+ The chapter 2 isn't out yet.

## Story Structure

As stated by Protagonist4, the series is divided into five -- a prologue, an epilogue, and in between are three main story arcs or "Archives". In each archive are chapters or "Documents" representing one of her level collections. As of now, only the prologue and the first document of The Spiral Mainframe have been completed.

**I. Prologue - A Substory (Just Shapes & Beats)**

**II. The Spiral Mainframe**

1. The Lost Relationship (Heartstrings)
2. The Crazy Cube's Revenge
3. The Spectral Manifold
4. The Spirit
5. The Other World
6. ???
7. The Locked Crystal
8. The Heart

**III. ???**

**IV. ???**

**V. Epilogue**

Protagonist4 also stated that the series will also have side stories, but none have been confirmed so far.

### I. Prologue - A Substory

The events start the cube finishes its fight against the Boss in the original Story Mode.

After the Paradise was restored, someone from another universe known as the Cat has brought the Boss to its universe and brought it back to its second form to help the Cat steal The Heart. The cube found out about this and decided to help by directly going there through a teleporter that someone created. There it met a cube named Neon who was killed by the infection of the Aurora Flu and now was transferred to a supercomputer after its death. Neon found out who was behind the Aurora Flu and it was the Cat. The cause of the virus is the loss of The Heart but they don't know where to find the Cat so Neon thought of an idea of looking for its friend named Nitro. The problem is that it is located inside an external storage that is somehow connected to the supercomputer. Neon identified it as "The Arama Archives".

### II. The Spiral Mainframe

#### A. The Lost Relationship

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The plot of this chapter begins in Twilight when the Cutter sees the player. It claims that it is protecting something incredibly important and that the player needs to leave. Through a miscommunication, the Cutter is left under the belief that the player is after the "precious thing" it is protecting. After a fight between the two, the Cutter is then impaled by a sky blue spike from off-screen. The Cutter is killed almost instantly, it muttered an apology before it drops off the screen and presumably passes away. With its death, comes in a sky blue cat known as the Cat with the same shade of the spike that had impaled the Cutter. A large heart appears on screen after the Cutter's death, and it is presumed that the heart is the thing the Cutter had died to protect. The Cat takes the heart, and then moves off-screen.

After the Cat returns to a castle, it is seen speaking to the TV. The Cat informs it that the Cutter was killed, and that the player was the one who killed it. The TV reveals that the Cutter was its childhood friend, and it leaves in a rage in an attempt to seek revenge for the death of its best friend.

The TV attacks the player in Red Haze. At the end of the level, it informs them that it "just misses [the Cutter]" and it leaves, ending the level.

The TV returns to the palace and informs the Cat that it was unable to kill the player. It leaves in a huff when The Big White Cube appears, asking the Cat what had happened. It explains the TV's inability to succeed in its assassination. The Big White Cube is infuriated that the player would try to retrieve that Heart when the Cat "needs" it.

The Big White Cube goes to attack in the level Ordinary. She attacks the player, throwing out bombs and utilizing its drones. It fails but because of that, it plans to use its "attack finale" but it still failed, and at the end of the level it informs the player that it will not give up and will come back later before it departs.

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## Cast

As of now...

* MCP\_PH\_02 (Hal Supercomputer)
* The Player
* Neon
* The Cutter
* The TV
* The Big White Cube
* The Dragonfly
* The Star
* Nitro
* The Diamond
* The Cat
* The Boss

## Levels

### I. Prologue

#### A. Just Shapes & Beats

##### Chapter 0: The Tutorial

1. Corrupted
2. Chronos
3. Milky Ways
4. Logic Gatekeeper
5. Long Live The New Fresh

##### Chapter 2: Island

1. The Art Of War
2. Termination Shock
3. Sevcon
4. Cascade
5. Barracuda

##### Chapter 3: Volcano

1. Dubwoofer Substep
2. Cheat Codes
3. Clash
4. Lycanthropy

##### Chapter 4: Industry

1. Cool Friends
2. The Lunar Whale
3. Spectra
4. Unlocked
5. Close To Me

##### Chapter 5: Tower

1. Into The Zone
2. Vindicate Me
3. Try This
4. Final Boss
5. Annihilate (Original Mix)
6. Till It's Over

##### Lost Chapter: Cavern

1. Airborne Robots
2. Interlaced
3. Last Tile 海底撈月
4. Born Survivor
5. Spider Dance (Remix)

### II. The Spiral Mainframe

#### A. The Lost Relationship

1. Twilight
2. Red Haze
3. Ordinary
4. Euphoria
5. Stardust
6. Hate
7. Opia
8. Termination Shock
9. Lycanthropy
10. Party Time
11. I Said Meow
12. Meowter Space
13. Annihilate

**B. ???**

**C. ???**

**III. ???**

**IV. ???**

**V. Epilogue**