Idea 1

• It’s not actually a story mode but a progression mode
• The main “route”/”pack”/idk is the core of the game, and takes a player from the very beginning of his journey to very challenging maps
• All the songs are custom made, hopefully by nekodex/or nekodex + FA collab. The idea is to have a cohesive soundtrack for the game, and a recognizable/signature sound. I want people to feel like “ah, yes, this song is from osu!”
• Similar to ADOFAI, you would go through levels separated by chapters, and have a “boss” level for each one that makes use of what the player learned so far. The boss levels would be a bit long 4-7 minutes or more for the harder levels, and would incorporate parts of every level in the “chapter” before it.
• The final levels should be a boss rush, ideally with more intense variations of the original boss songs. You would need to go through each boss level, and finish with at least a A grade (or S?), and if you don’t it resets (you go back to the start of the boss rush)
• I’m imagining something like 10 chapters
• You’d have other secondary “packs”, and they wouldn’t have to be nekodex/”osu! sound” only, for example featured artists (maybe the packs are themed around 1 or multiple FAs), or maybe themed packs (for example christmas, anniversary, etc), or skillset/mod based (reading/EZ, aim control, forced HD etc)
• (Not core) Daily challenge could get reworked to be a daily level from the “daily challenge” pack. The pack could be temporary (so it would be removed when it’s over and replaced by the next week’s pack). You’d get a new level every day in the week, and then a boss level at the end of the week. The boss level doesn’t have to be a combination of all skillsets of the levels prior, but it still has to feel like a challenge, similar to a tiebreaker map in a tourney. The streak could be based on boss maps beaten instead of weekly streak. (you’d still have the daily streak as a secondary stat) I’d like to keep multiplayer/community aspect of it somehow, so the chat would stay, live score should also stay in some way (more thought needed) Poolers would still be able to select forced mods and limited mod selection One benefit of having daily challenge as a pack is that you’re not up to date for the week, you could play every song in the week until the most recent one if you so desire, or just jump to the latest one
• (Not core) Similarly, spotlights could be a special temporary pack too