DDR X3 VS 2ndMIX (AC) (Japan)

I don't really see "Love is the Power" at all in the jacket closeup. Since none of the other 2ndMIX OST bonus songs have appeared in any form here, if it is Love is the Power, I'd bet it's not a mix we've heard. But the text is really, really unclear.

Rating Estimation :

Trip Machine : 16
Paranoia : 17

Videos are on youtube.

If the remixes of PARANOiA and TRIP MACHINE were the ones on the new 2ndMIX soundtrack, Love Is The Power being the third mystery song would make sense. But they're not.

I'd rather that DDR cater to people who actually want to be able to play all of the content. As it is, there's few good bridges to songs in the 17 or 18 range. The difficulty just spikes hard and there's almost no songs to get you up to there. Has anyone that's good enough to beat and do well at Fascination MAXX gotten to that point with ONLY official DDR charts? I'm sure there's maybe a few, but most players have gotten outside help from Edits or simulators or ITG. What's the point of having insanely difficult stuff if the game doesn't prepare the player for it? I've fallen away from DDR a lot lately, and at my peak I only could consistently beat the Extreme era boss songs (not counting Paranoia Survivor Max Challenge), and still only on good days. How is someone like me supposed to jump to 17s when the jump from 13 to 15 is already pretty enormous itself? DDR has seated itself in the range of 13 or lower in most songs. It's arguably always followed an easier curve (relatively speaking when you consider every Heavy/Challenge chart). Maybe if there were more 14s and 15s on Heavy that have extreme Challenge charts, I'd be okay with it, but there need to be more of those 14s and 15s in the first place.

IIDX has the same issue where theres a lack of songs to bridge the gap between hard and really hard. Nobody complains about that they just do it.


DDR is much more friendly than IIDX and the ratings blend nicely. Theres no overly hard chart that you need ITG or customs to get to sans vdo. I did it fine. People can suck it up and get stamina.

Does anyone think the 9-foot rating for Trip Machine Evolution was a mistake? The people who gave it that rating are almost certainly the same guys who credited Kung Fu Fighting to "Bus Stop Carl Dolglas".

I feel the ratings are merely symbolic. We all know that 9 footers were never "Evolutionary;" they're just doing it for effect. TRIP MACHINE EVOLUTION is harder than any other song in 2ndMIX, and PARANOiA Revolution is harder than that, that's all it indicated.

I mean, Trip Machine Revolution is rated 9 when it clearly should be a 10.

I agree with the part about the 2ndMIX Mode ratings being symbolic. However given their track record, don't expect an X scale rating to be any more accurate than the classic scale.

(Looks at Under the Sky and Make it Better)

Yup. Couldn't agree more.