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

I used to until I got DDR 2010. I was like, oh wow, this is actually kind of fun. THEN I got Hottest Party 3. Then I was like "this is freaking amazing!" I enjoyed the tournament campaign, I really didn't care for the "play 3 songs and get challenged" mode. I ended up playing several songs on Difficult just so I could pass them all on Difficult and stop the game from forcing me into a challenge so many times.

I resent the HP series.

I would love to see both ways of unlocking actually. Some people enjoy just playing songs in game mode or freeplay, while others like a mode for unlocking. Personally I feel like I am working harder to unlock things when it's a mission sort of mode. I would take any unlocking mode that we have had again.

I do. They're substandard pieces of software. Especially if you own a large collection of imported music games from the same company like I do.

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Why do you care? After all, BEMANI IS DEEEEAAAAAD

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DDR X2 USA PS2 has same methods too.

Just playing the songs and after 5 / 10 / 20 songs new stuffs will unlocked.

OK, i wonder if DDR II will be released on Japan version too.

Maybe with different subtitle name but consist X2 ARC licence (Super Driver, more more more, Eternity, etc...)

Too bad if those licence songs not appear on CS .

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People act like it's the end of the world if there's a bad unlock system.
I don't know squat about HP so maybe there is some legitimate panicking here, but hasn't the PS2 series had the five-song-unlock-something pattern SINCE Max? And this is sort of a fusion of what the PS series has been with the Wii, so maybe we'll have it again.

That said, I hated Max/Max2/Extreme1/Konamix-while-I'm-at-it's unlock system. To n00bs in Extreme 1 who absolutely couldn't 100% it, there was no choice in any of those games. But hey, they were just before all the unlock systems, so one can't really blame them for only having one real way.
And as far as difficulty goes... even though Street Master was long as fudge, at least it was the easiest to complete.

So uh. Here's to hoping it's a finishable mission-y system that doesn't suck and then the five song alternative thing.


The HP series has always been its own separate entity to me. It's fine on its own, but fusing it with arcade themes and whatnot is weeeeird. It's like some sci-fi movie where you put two dimensions together and stuff gets wrong and confusing and people get screwed.

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If i remember correctly, you couldn't unlock Memories unless you beat Extreme's mission mode (unless you stumbled upon the code on the internet afterwards or were told by a friend) So i assume there is some incentive to have a mission mode or to get excited about one. With that being said, i would be extremely happy if we got Extreme2's Dance Master Mode back.

Without starting at Beginner, right?

Yuichi liked my comment on his wall

"I am the opposite lol I loved the master modes. Especially extreme 2 one. DDRX was nice too. However I believe that both methods should be avalible"

Not that this means much but maybe we will get both methods of unlocking content. Mission based and freeplay unlocks. Dance Master Mode was my favorite because there was always a suprise lurking.

Aegis, I couldn't agree more...that was one of the biggest pains.

Why of course. That was probably the biggest problem i had with it. I like Happy Wedding, i truely do, but on beginner? Meh

Regardless I think we deserve new information.

I think revivals and RDA songs should be kept secret. Just to keep us guessing. Because we all know Konami has a gold medal in that

I hope if there are revivals, there is actually a point to them. Like reviving Freeway Shuffle because it has a challenge chart that it didn't in SuperNOVA 2, or reviving Poseidon because it's remix is in this game. I don't need to be seeing other songs like Hysteria show up on a CS mix for the 4th time.

That'd actually be good if they had a point, yes.

If we get to talk about this stuff, i know Brilliant2U (Orchestra-Groove) has a challenge chart, soooo.....

That song again?

Really?

I can see the DDR X3 vs. 2ndMIX revivals being put into DDR II, so expect to see BOOM BOOM DOLLAR and the other revivals that were caught from the loc test....

/rumor and/or speculation

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1. Yes, it is another excuse to bring back Brilliant2U in some form
2. There are a lot of songs that have Challenge charts that we didn't get, that's just the one i prefer
3. Didn't care for kors k's mix of Poseidon at all (It's my opinion)

Just wait. If the planets align, someone on youtube will express his disappointment on it.

IIRC, Freeway Shuffle's chart was one of the prize charts, when did they get released? SN2 AC, SN2 CS or DDR X AC?

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