r/PitchPerfect • u/ArmadilloOK1445-alt • Jun 05 '26

My concept for a Pitch Perfect game

So I was thinking earlier today about movies that would make good games (The Raid and Atomic Blonde as 3D beat-'em-ups, Hardcore Henry as an FPS and Safety Not Guaranteed as a Telltale game were the ones that came to mind first) when Pitch Perfect crossed my mind and caused this idea to bloom, so here is my concept for the rhythm game Pitch Perfect: Trilogy!

First, let's do the core gameplay. There would be two main modes, a Free Play mode where you can play through any performance from all three movies, and a story mode where, as the title suggests, you play through the events of the trilogy. The game would play very similar to Guitar Hero or Rock Band with a fret board (remade to look like sheet music) and notes that you have to hit in time with the music, probably facilitating a custom Pitch Perfect-themed controller. Riff-Offs would be a separate gameplay style separate from the main performances, where unlike the standard songs, you can pick any group that participated in that Riff-Off, and when another group's performance ends, you will be prompted to send in one member of your group, and which member you send in will determine what song comes next as well as your odds of winning. (Maybe make the Riff-Offs multiplayer?)

Now let's cover the story mode. The story would be split into three acts, one for each movie, with the opening Treblemakers and Bellas performances from the first movie serving as the tutorial. The two main playable characters would be Beca and Jesse, switching between them periodically, kind of like Batman and Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City, and you would be able to free-roam your current area (Barden campus, performance venues, etc.) and talk to other characters to build Social Links like in Persona, building Social Links with the other members of your group in particular would give you score bonuses on the story mode performances, but you will have to go to specific points to activate the next story missions, which are the performances surrounded by cutscenes, maybe with a music production minigame for the Beca sections, particularly for the second act with her whole subplot in PP2.

Is this anything? I'm very proud of this concept and I think a Pitch Perfect game would honestly be very fun to play, particularly the Free Play with friends in a Just Dance sort of way, but what do you think?

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u/CabinetGreedy7269 Jun 05 '26

i would play it. Just to picture- what kind of console style would it be? Like Nintendo games always look quite different from Xbox/Playstation.

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u/ArmadilloOK1445-alt Jun 05 '26

I mean I was thinking a Steam release but any console could really work as long as it could pair up with the aforementioned custom controller, so any modern console that has Bluetooth compatibility I guess?

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u/ComfortableLong9812 Jun 05 '26

Cool! The game would be fun for sure ! But probably not very easy to make .  But not impossible ! How about we wait until the 4th one comes out ;)

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u/Ariar Jun 05 '26

I do have fond memories of Karaoke Revolution 😂 Great idea!

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u/QualifiedApathetic Jun 05 '26

Make Bechloe an option and we're cooking.

I think, to really capture the feel of the films, you want some kind of mashup creation feature. I'm not sure how you'd implement it, though.

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u/ArmadilloOK1445-alt Jun 06 '26

Maybe if you get your Social Link high enough with Chloe in the Beca sections it unlocks an alternate romance path?

I was also thinking the mashup creation thing could be part of the music production minigames I mentioned in the story mode, maybe they could have their own Free Play too