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

Weren't recolors also the norm for DDR X2 PS2? I remember Queen-Zukin's whitewashed look.

Also, are there really back-up dancers? I saw the vid for unbelievable and I see two solid characters flying alongside jun, and then I see silhouettes on Heartbreak.

A quick things of note:

-The game's engine feels just like DDR 2010. It lacks polish, it's simple, not a lot of movement in the interface.
-There are no more specific dance routines for songs. All songs get a randomish dance routine.
-The X2 characters don't feel like X2. They're obviously Hottest Party skeletons with X2 skins as their dances/movements feel very strange.
-For the licenses at least, long versions are just a continuation of the short versions. The charts are repeated heavily through out the song, which is kind of expected given the length of the song and how often certain rhythms/choruses repeat.
-Most of the charts are of good quality, only a small set are bad (Haunted Rhapsody is one). Unbelievable isn't that great either. There are charts with lots of spins, but they're mostly for slower songs and I was able to AAA sight read with spins, so they're not bad at all.
-There are new outfits for characters, mostly palette swaps.
-Gold Rush only has it's IIDX version

I will gladly answer any more questions from here on out

The recolors were in X2. I remember Queen-Zukin's alt form had Robo-Zukin's face too. Was that an error, or were they trying to make a separate character?

I don't think there were any backup dancers, just sillhouettes that disappear before the song ends.

The dancer animations unfortunately don't surprise me. They took a page out of arcade DDRX and X2 with that as those games largely did the exact same thing with the exception of Will, Loving You, and Into Your Heart along with a few others. No song from HP3 on X2AC used their routines either, it was all randomly chosen animations there too.

The dancer animations unfortunately don't surprise me. They took a page out of arcade DDRX and X2 with that as those games largely did the exact same thing with the exception of Will, Loving You, and Into Your Heart along with a few others. No song from HP3 on X2AC used their routines either, it was all randomly chosen animations there too.

Basically, when they cut the budget on the production of the game the dancer routines were the first thing to get the axe. I figured this much too, since it would be 75 some odd songs they'd have to do that for and in many cases I can't for the life of me figure out what they'd do for the routine anyway.

There are songs on the disc that nobody has mentioned unlocking yet.

This. I cringe whenever the dancers do part of the routine from Closer to my Heart. It shouldn't be so hard to motion capture dance steps. And lest we forget that along with scrambling up the HP routines and making them random character animations, Konami had the time to record choreography for Dance Celebration (System7 Mix), at least one of the Xmixes among other new songs on DDR X.

Such as?

Well, the megamixes never did really blend well anyway.

Mmm...Yeah, but they could have done a bit better with it

Hottest Party 1 was the best.