DANCE aROUND (AC)

Location test this weekend at Round One Stadium Sennichimae, Osaka.



Kinda looks to me like some kind of successor to DanceEvo, but woah this came out of nowhere!

Still great.

So.... DanceEvolution meeds Tetote Connect? 0-o

Dance Evolution Revived

Great!!!!

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What the frick? Another dance game?

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Uhhhh how many dance games we have now!? I mean don't tell me this is one of those games that never saw the light of day just like that other two games that shared the same fate.

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(A cover of ) USA by DA PUMP is part of the tracklist:
https://twitter.com/r1_sennichimae/status/1459311999058255872

The text is barely readable, but the track title looks like "Let's DANCE aROUND":
https://twitter.com/r1_sennichimae/status/1459329031455739904

Lastly:
https://twitter.com/r1_sennichimae/status/1459327661084348418

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That... does not look responsive at all, from the looks of the latter 2 clips; looks like the game tracks your hands and your feet, but the tracking isn't exactly keeping up with the choreography, and a game like this needs to be 1:1. I'm thinking that this game is gonna flop if they don't get that fixed fast. >>

What the?


Another dance game from Bemani?

Release announced for March 3rd.

https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/around/1st/index.html

Guess we'll find out soon enough if they fixed that motion tracking lag. Isn't this game coming to R1 now, or something? I know Chrono Circle and Tetote Connect are coming, but I heard some people on FB say this game might be coming, but I'm taking that with a huge grain of salt.

Please! Don't include any licensed content!

2 of the new songs are dance covers of Old Macdonald Had a Farm by nora2r and If You're Happy and You Know It by uno(IOSYS)

WHAT is this game's audience lmao

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Hey, maybe they're bangers, for all we know! XD

(It doesn't help that there's absolutely no footage of the game on youtube; I've only seen one Twitter video of a guy cheesing the tutorial, and he just crouched and waved his hands around. )

https://twitter.com/esyaku_DRS/status/1499221187079340038

there's footage on youtube though, it might just not be showing up on search
for example, this guy uploaded videos of all of the game's (currently available) charts

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Ahh, I didn't think of trying to search with the game's Japanese title. Still, these videos are very helpful, since now I know exactly how the game works (you basically have to have your hands/feet be inside the boxes, so it really is like a semi-simple version of Dance Evolution). Motion tracking still looks iffy, though. I... don't think this game's gonna last long. I hope R1 doesn't try to bring the game here, if it really bombs. >>

The dance models look like MMD models from DeviantArt, but not good ones.

There's a lot going on on the screen, it doesn't look like it would be fun to play.

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This is apparently a failed attempt at arcade games. DANCE aROUND didn't go off the ground.

This game looks amazing. Konami / Bemani is finally getting up again.

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Sadly, from reviews from Bemani fans and what I've seen of the game overall since release, the game is a let down. The games body tracking is terrible at best, the expensive camera system on this game has to make a 3D model of you before every stage based on triangular body shapes and it misses the mark with any sweeping or off center body movements(even with the body tracking problems, it's extremely easy to perfect play anything so there is very little challenging incentive to wanna keep playing), the songlist is small, the setlist is catered to younger audiences like Old Macdonald and If you're happy and you know it, the dances are not very creative, memorable or fun, and you can tell Konami is catering this game to the changing arcade scene in japan right now with arcades converting to all crane games and a more casual gaming atmosphere with games that cater to everyone. So far this game is a huge let down to the core Bemani fan base and I forecast this game doesn't even last a year before it fades into obscurity, not necessarily dying, but no hardcore Bemani players will touch this game again after playing it once out of curiosity. I wanted this game to do well and I thought it would be a spiritual successor to Dance Evolution, but I was wrong.