[s1rnight]

i'm not quite sure how moves would work out! i did have an idea for "battles" though, particularly in multiplayer. each attack would involve subjecting the opponent to playing an excerpt of a song in a range of your pokemon's "level", with the opponent's defense resting on how well they cleared the excerpt.

i can see it operating on something like 100% - ("your score" / "maximum score for excerpt in combo scoring") for how much damage your pokemon would take, so a combo breaker in the middle could be quite deadly. if there is a way to analyse what patterns are prevalent (trills, rolls etc) in excerpts at a glance i could see people intentionally trying to trip their opponents with patterns they would be more likely to find difficult to clear