DDR II & hottest party 5 (Wii) (International)

Wow. I don't even care what the last reveal is or whether or not we get challenge or edits or ANYTHING really, I could buy this game right now and I would be one happy mofo

As far as the last tab... Well, I don't expect that many new X3 songs(other than bosses), and we have almost all the X2 songs( we're missing what, 8?). I'm hoping for some actual revivals, seeing as they've all been from X2 so far (not that that's a bad thing). We know for a fact we're getting the collab songs. We're also probably getting the jun/evolved boss songs as well. So... What's left? Can't wait to play this

*Looks at the entirety of Replicant D-Action*

Are you saying we need more?

Apparenly so

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I'm writing an FAQ for it, so I'll probably have a fully unlocked save file to upload here within a day of it coming out.


We don't know what the Boss Song is yet, only that it won't be any of the Replicant D Action songs. Everyone is expecting a new Jun song and an Evolved song as the Boss Song and the Extra Stage, but they could easily use Deltamax and Unbelievable, or any other combination of hard songs we already know about.

There might not be a traditional Boss Song at all, because there are a fuckton of very hard songs tucked away in the unlock system, but I think that thematically, we're going to get a new Extra Stage and OMES. We know that RDA is in, so logically an Extra Stage system must be in there as well. I can't see them using any of the X2 songs forthem.

I'm leaning against there being any more X2 songs, each reveal tab has had its own "theme".

Reveal 1: New Konami Originals
Reveal 2: X2 Konami Originals
Reveal 3: X2 From CS
Reveal 4: X2 BEMANI Crossovers

So what will reveal 5 be? Well, there are still two KOs that we know that they haven't revealed yet: still unbreakable and SAY A PRAYER. Perhaps Reveal 5 will be an extension of Reveal 1?

The two things that I'm left wondering about are roppongi EVOLVED and Diamond Dust, the former because we didn't get ver. D and putting A, B, C and D together results in a long version of the song (one of the staples of this game), and Diamond Dust because... well, it's an X3 song by TAG, and with all of the amazing reveals shown to us so far nothing sounds outlandish at this point.
EDIT :: I'm hoping Reveal 5 will either be more X3 stuff and miscellaneous non-revealed KOs or the songs that have a Chinese equivalent, i.e. Melody Life, MAX LOVE and Leaving...

(insert city here) EVOLVED by (insert artist here) Underground
as for ES & OMES I'm Shutting them off. don't ask why
I just don't like them that well

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The license list doesn'tt fit in the box, so I'd rule that out.

Shall we just narrow it down to every possibility?

- More mew KOs
- Revivals
- The missing X2 legacy songs
- A mix of the above

- Long Versions
- New Licenses
- DDR X2 AC Licenses
- Something more insane to "cinch the deal" for players sitting on the fence about buying a Wii for 10th October

Now what WOULD be neat is the ability to create edits, save them on a USB drive (ports on the back of the Wii), and be able to take them straight to an X2 machine.

Long shot, but definitely possible technically speaking.

Not really. But why would they reveal all of the hardest songs in the game so early?

To Excite DDR fans Of course

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Well, it worked.

We went from "I refuse to play Justin Bieber and will not buy unless So Deep is in the game" to "HOLYFUCK PREORDER NOW" overnight.

The whole concept of the Extra Stage system really doesn't work so well on a console. It was a cute Relive the Arcade Experience in Your Home thing back in the day but it made equal sense to having stages and a timer on every screen.

There are much better ways to unlock a game, EXTREME 2 is the go-to example of this. I also personally liked UNIVERSE 3's method: Every few songs "Oh, you think you're hot stuff, huh? Here. Play ABSOLUTE on x5 and a battery bar then get back to me."

I actually liked having the Menu Timer on in the older CS games...

When was there ever a menu timer on CS DDR games?

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The PS1 versions did.

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DDRMAX and DDRMAX2 both had the option if I'm remembering correctly.

It's a WII DDR game, they have not had arcade mode at all this far, and, even thought it essentially being "X2 CS", i don't believe it is gonna be exception.
If the game has a "-master mode" of a kind like HP and HP2 had, RDA could work well as a Final Area rather than arcade mode extra stage.

The most seamless way I can think of integrating it would be to retain the Hottest Party 4 unlock system, with an "RDA" folder permanantly on the songwheel. Every time you meet one of the song's unlock critera (Play 10 songs / Combo 10 songs / Play 3 courses / play songs upto a combined difficulty of 100 / whatever), you can enter the folder once, to attempt that song?

Normal medal rules appliy. If you beat VD or reach a certain ammount of Dance Points, then the songs are unlocked as normally playable songs?

I kind of agree with Tyma on this. Hottest Party 3 had a "pass 3 songs, a boss song appears" and DDR 2010 had "play 3 songs, a "Challenge" appeared". I could see "play until you meet the requirements" and "play an RDA song" ordeal. However, people do indeed need to remember several things:

A 15 footer != a boss song. A boss song is determined as a song that either has to seen as a "final goal song to reach" via an unlocking method. 888, deltaMax, Vanessa, ZETA. etc, probably won't be considered boss songs. RDA will probably be considered as such as they'll be recurring songs that you'll have to continuously try to complete. And, in true Wii fashion, there will probably be a new jun boss and evolved series. It's indeed, truer to the arcade in many respects, but it's being developed by the Wii team, so expect Wii style aspects to remain.