beat'n groovy (Xbox 360) (North America/Europe)

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Due for release in North America and Europe.

Release Date: 8th October 2008

Song List

100Sec. Kitchen Battle! / Orange Lounge
Beyond The Earth / 猫叉Master
Gotta Get My Groove On / good-cool feat. Aundrea L. Hopkins
MOON / dj TAKA feat. Erika Mochizuki
Missing Cat / Sakurai Yasushi feat. Kudo
R.C. / Waldeus Von Dovjak
Spicy piece / ORIGINAL SOUND TRACKS
starmine (pop’n mixx) / Ryu☆
We Two Are One / Lala Moore

I am geniunely interested in this game, not matter how much people whine about the new art style. It shows Konami is putting some serious effort behind this, and it may actually have a future in the US.

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Honestly, sounds like trash...

I applaud to Konami for making his own style and not copying the pop'n music graphic style, but I have bad feeling about its popularity ...and quality

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OK, that's the only reason for me for buying this, Nekomata Master's music is my weakness, Damn you Konami, DAMN YOU!

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I thought the art style was ugly at first, but then the initial shock of it wore off and I took a good look at it... and quite frankly, it's not that bad at all! Whatever, just my two cents on it!



EDIT - I also wanted to say real quick that I don't see this as a "US localized Pop'n Music". I see this more as a "Pop'n Music-like offshoot XBLA game thing that plays primarily with the 360 controller that is different enough to look different (blah blah blah)" and therefore, it's okay! Why NOT! Goodness. *tired* I'm definitely not against trying new things.

EDIT 2 - Oh, and... *hi-fives amorite* Someone's getting some user points from me!

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I don't know why they feel like they can't release the real pop'n music here. That couldn't possibly do worse than this.

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yay, user points! But really, imagine the enormous amounts of work that it would take to bring pop'n music over to the US. First, take a look at the songlist for Pop'n Music 15 ADVENTURE:

http://vjarmy.com/wiki/index.php/PnM_AC_15

Under "New Songs" and "Secret Songs," count how many english-titled songs there are. NONE! The entire game is J-Pop based- so bringing any Pop'n Music game over would essentially need a completely new songlist, unless you expect the average american gamer to be interested in hundreds of japanese songs (of which he or she cannot read the titles of )

haha I gotta admit though, in that gameplay screenshot, it's hilarious that they named the mexican-looking girl in the disco area "Sakura" and... what's up with "Betty?!"

I don't know, maybe it won't be so bad. If they get a big enough response they'll have to continue with this series (hopefully with more downloadable songs or something). They seem to be testing the water with this and seeing if there's a lot of interest- and I don't think they're sure enough this will get a large enough response to bring the original controller over with an actual game disk. Beatmania was a disaster, so they'd probably be reluctant to rush into that again.

Hell, just be glad they didn't try to use disco and pop songs (like toxic and celebration) without any konami originals *cough*

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We already get numerous J-Pop tracks on DDR, the titles of which are romanized so we can read them, thus the point is moot.

There's also no reason they can't customize the songlist for each region like on DDR.

We don't even see IIDX or GF/DM that often.

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Oh wow, I am seriously looking forward to this.
Pop'n Music coming to the West, even in a new form is great news!

And just as DialBM said, Nekomata Master's music wins this over for me

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I was hoping to see Pop'n Music coming to US, but I'm still having thoughts about this My fear its gonna be like IIDX US, but finally Nekomata Master is on it

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All I can say is "ooh wow"...

I still won't mind trying it... Though (LOL) i'll be stuck using the XBox 360 controller.. .To boot hog my little brother's system.

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So, this game = USA version of Pop'n Music ? Wow.

This is the first time just like Beatmania before.

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LOL @ the achievements. someone didnt think these out very well. come on konami, youre better than this.

still looks fun though. i'll get it when it hits the marketplace.

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PIME TARADOX

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I think I can already see how this is going to work amongst my XBL friends.

No one will get the game, some will notice that I have it, I'll get swamped with messages asking what it is/is it like DDR/how is it, and people will start downloading it. Same thing happened with Go! Go! Break Steady. However, it'll have to wait until I return from overseas.

Anyway, I agree with many in that the songlist is great, but the game's appearance makes me want to tear my fingernails off.

Couldn't you technically beat Endless Mode on some of the older versions of DDR by maxing out the score counter?

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Does anyone remember Hiphopmania?

Oh geeze...

The game is out now by the way, trial and full game. Full game is costing 800 Microsoft Points at the moment.

look at this: b'n g

now, THAT is different than I expected

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Lol oh dear.

"You do need to bear in mind that I'm a fat cu-"
I love it. The game, however...

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Ah, so i guess it's not a western Pop'n
which is fine anyway, it looks interesting... It has Moon

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