DDR X2 (AC) (International)

Licenses need to be discussed too, as X's were mostly bad.

What difficulty is Possession? Bemanistyle says it's an 18 and nowhere else says which difficulty is an 18.
The doubles chart doesn't look at all like an 18, and singles and doubles difficulties usually aren't that far apart, especially for boss songs, so I'm thinking the is the one that's an 18 since there has never been a 18 before as far as I know.

Just make a goddamned deal with Avex and Ministry of Sound

Just make a goddamned deal with Avex! Or at least take songs from Oricon.

The video quality will be good at most parts yet really terrible at others for second heaven. I had my camera in my bookback for these videos so the focusing was hard. You should be able to make out the steps for them both though. I have a so so quality video for daziling darling on SD (btw DD is a 13, i think i saw someone said it was a 12)but kinda want to wait for better quality. After today I learned how to improve the videos and hopefully tomorrow I will have lots of great videos.

Just a quick thing before I give a review. I only played 1 time tonight haha. I probably will only play a few tomorrow. Its ok though cause when Im not playing I can still manage to take videos. Too bad though cause I wont be the one in my own videos though. Which has been too bad so far cause everyone I taped so far has trouble passing some of these songs (took 3 tries till someone passed second heaven for me)

And this is what I can say about the 3 songs I played so far.

Gotta Dance: Well you should all know this from x2 CS. I choose it first cause I really like it. I PFCed it with 20 perfects. This tells me that the sync is good and machine registers well.

Smooooch: I really really love this. Its best described if you imagine something like sweet sweet heart magic only better. The steps fit the music very well. Some triple taps and a few 16 note sets but nothing too hard. Long and enjoyable with a good sync.

Second heaven: I wasnt really feeling this one. Most of it is due probably cause it has a TERRIBLY late sync forcing you to step late and i mean VERY late. Im sure this will be fix by final released but this is how it is now. Anyways, steps get really tricky forcing you to do some cross over 16th notes that will preset you to hit the next small stream of cross over 16th notes. Lots of crossing over and quite a bit of hitting and ending short streams with off beats. Really tricky.


You do not have a choice in your dancer (at least in loc test).

Menu timers are very short. New graphics for the song banners look really tight. If you go to DDR X folder there wont be any banners and there`s a sign saying that they are be work on now.

I`ll have much more to say later. Especially after an entire day playing tomorrow. Expect some nice videos coming.





edit* quality will be really bad until they finished processing

5. C-mods and an option to turn off your dancer.

Just make a goddamned deal with Avex! Or at least take songs from Oricon.

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Fixed :p

HELL NO !
C-mod is like cheating, if this apears on DDR, this will ruin a lot of previous scores... (C-Mod on Faxx... yeah >.>).
Even i HATE useless stops/bpm tricks ect, i HATE more C-mod.

(That "disqualified for ranking" on ITG when you choose C-Mod on songs who have bpm changes/stops means something...).

My sugestion is "Stop making idiot charts with useless stop and bpm change, please...".
Really, we don't need C-mod, just better charts...

why cant i see the vids?

Here is a list I compiled so far of what I want to write down.

These are just my suggestions and not my pros though I have many too.

Cons/suggestions.
1. Announcer need to be minimized or have an option in game menu to switch to low frequency or just completely off.
2. We need more challenge song for charts to cater towards experienced players and offer more challenges plus game play.
3. Machines should each be equiped with an some offset option so no e-amuse machine can calibrate syncing problems.
4. More ranking course that require more difficulty than those offered in DDR X.
5. C-mods and an option to turn off your dancer.
6. Feature more edit data weekly and make new course that are entire edits.
7. Option to save other peoples edits trough your own e-amuse card via machine or weeky edits.
8. Cross over songs from the DDR Universe series.
9. Make option for a flat 2 or note 2. My idea would be that flat 2 too would feature the dark red note and note 2 would be a lot darker as well.
10. Allow use of 24ths, 32nds, etc. in edit more for ps2 and especially internet editing.
11. Shorten intro time to start the game. DDR X takes a long time to begin a new round.
12. Make the unlocking system more interesting. SN2 was good. Don`t keep the same final stage for the entire time... SN2 did this part really well.
13. Offer more location options (mainly talking for DDR ray and singapore)


Please tell me more things to add before I leave.

I saw the director last night. (I met him in July as well) Atamax said he is interested in talking to me today personally and letting me voice my suggestions.

Here is a list I compiled so far of what I want to write down.

These are just my suggestions and not my pros though I have many too.

Cons/suggestions.
1. Announcer need to be minimized or have an option in game menu to switch to low frequency or just completely off.
2. We need more challenge song for charts to cater towards experienced players and offer more challenges plus game play.
3. Machines should each be equiped with an some offset option so no e-amuse machine can calibrate syncing problems.
4. More ranking course that require more difficulty than those offered in DDR X.
5. C-mods and an option to turn off your dancer.
6. Feature more edit data weekly and make new course that are entire edits.
7. Option to save other peoples edits trough your own e-amuse card via machine or weeky edits.
8. Cross over songs from the DDR Universe series.
9. Make option for a flat 2 or note 2. My idea would be that flat 2 too would feature the dark red note and note 2 would be a lot darker as well.
10. Allow use of 24ths, 32nds, etc. in edit more for ps2 and especially internet editing.
11. Shorten intro time to start the game. DDR X takes a long time to begin a new round.
12. Make the unlocking system more interesting. SN2 was good. Don`t keep the same final stage for the entire time... SN2 did this part really well.
13. Offer more location options (mainly talking for DDR ray and singapore)


Please tell me more things to add before I leave.

I saw the director last night. (I met him in July as well) Atamax said he is interested in talking to me today personally and letting me voice my suggestions.

Oh, for future reference, Dr. D, or anyone, remember to always, always push for more K-POP licenses in DDR.

Recent Korean popular music is so fitting!

Dr.D I guess you left already but if not:

-Ultramix/Universe crossovers would be awesome. (Mostly the Bemani crossovers [lol double crossovers?])
-Tell them to release it SOON in the US, with unlock codes that don't take A YEAR to come out, and UPGRADE KITS PLEASE!
-HP2/3 stages would be great, the X selection is super limited and not that great really.
-Why haven't they revived Akira yet :<<<<

The Director is Takashi Umeda, or as he's known on the STAFF BLOG "U-san"