DanceDanceRevolution X2

[AaronRoberts]

DDR X2, for those of you that have played it, whats your opinion of the game.

i think the game's lisences are ok, the konami originals are good too.
i dont like the pointless galloping in most songs, the random 16ths in Ropogolf evolved or whatever its called that dont go with the music.
also PLUTO the first is a good song but a very bad song for DDR with so many bpm pauses that dont fit correctly, & the syncing even goes off because of the bpm pauses near the end, who made this, some bemanistyle noob?

anyway, whats your opinion.

[Super_Ray]

That's what they've been doing with all of their boss songs, lately- dumb bpm changes and pause gimmicks.
I haven't gotten a copy, yet because I'm kinda turned off by the song list at the moment. I may cave in and pick up a copy.

[will-i-am]

I haven't unlocked the boss song yet, but if the only thing holding you back from grabbing a copy of the game is because of the boss song, you really should get it anyway.

The songlist isn't bad, quite frankly. Actually, it's miles better than X's song list was, and pretty much all of the KO's are really nice (except for the NAOKI feat. Aleisha G songs; her robot sounding voice is annoying lol). On top of that, there's La Senorita Virtual which pwns, but took way too long to make a comeback from Konamix years ago.

X2 isn't the best DDR PS2 game the US has seen, but I would say it's close to being as good as one of the better ones, even with the small 60 song count. For me, it's really just a refreshing shot at another good DDR game after X's failure.

[JukuGuy]

Erm, I actually disagree with you Will saying that this list is miles better than X’s. Now don’t get me wrong, I felt as if this time the songs that they chose that were more mainstream were a bit exciting than those dull, dull, dull unknown licensed music from X I still felt like they could've chose a better licensed list, but maybe that's just cause I stepped more than half of those songs already. :F The crossovers were far way better in X as those new revealed songs from Naoki and those other artists. I mean, is it just me, or is Naoki losing his touch from producing these songs.? They seemed so rushed (aside with his collab with Smile dk. though). For instance, when you look back at the songs he produced back in MAX2 with Destiny & Still In My Heart, those songs were gold and far beyond of what Naoki has created with this DDR game.

Dice Master is just a pain in the arse (O_o with the word changing). After repetitively playing each and every single mission over and over just because of it being so ridiculously hard, I ended up by stopping to play in that mode, and just basically trying to unlock songs by doing it ‘Max’ style, with playing the default list over and over until I get some new material. After two days of doing that, I stopped playing X2 fully and that’s where I began to lose interest of the game. Heck, I’d rather play my DJ Hero for hours and hours even if I find myself in boredom. <3

[Oni-91]

Dice Master is just a pain in the arse (O_o with the word changing).

GO GO POWER BRITAIN

[Juub005]

I have to say I thought the songlist was absolutely amazing and I started getting excited when I saw that the difficulties all looked rather appropriate. Unfortunately I haven't played it yet :/

Also, I don't get the complaining about the song count. 60 songs would have been perfectly standard for a past DDR game, and if there's no repeats then it would've been beyond standard. You have to accept that past a certain point you start sacrificing quality for quantity.

Edit: Er, I forgot that some of the songs I thought were absolutely great picks were only on Hottest Party. I can't really remember X2's list other than that it had a lot more Konami Originals...

Edit 2: Why is One Step at a Time NOT on DDR X2? :/ At least So What is...

[Hellrazor]

This is really STRANGE. This is the first time I missed a DDR release since ever (I got DDR for PS1, then Disney, then Konamix, Max .... all the way to DDR X). Maybe it's for the better though since my PS2 is pretty much in retirement thanks to my first generation PS3 with a 320GB hard drive, fully backwards capability, but doesn't accept a PS2 controller.

Good thing is that as soon as I noticed DDR X2 was out, the files were all available at Z-I-V, so yay, I don't even have to delay to play this game... But it feels very odd, one missing game in my collection. However since the game is only at the stores as a bundle and I don't want a softpad, I don't plan on getting it anyways, actually I feel like selling off my entire DDR collection now.

Guess I'm just confused, or a StepMania addict, or both. Not like I'll miss anything if I get rid of my collection.

[JukuGuy]

Why is One Step at a Time NOT on DDR X2? :/ At least So What is...

Especially for THAT song, I was quite bummed out as well. Even RickRoll, to be really honest... And yet, we get most of the Latin songs, seeing as it could attract the Latin audience. Hmm, why is it so anyways that their trying to target that particular culture? Is it because Ozomatli is influencing them? or..

[will-i-am]

lol I guess this is all a difference in tastes.

I think it's pretty unfair to compare NAOKI's work from 7 years ago in MAX2 to his work now. Artists naturally change their styles, just as all of us change our simfile making styles, and you can't keep holding back to the past.

I do agree that NAOKI's newer songs aren't anything near as spectacular as his older songs, but that's just the way it is. It's like asking Sota Fujimori to make a comeback with another masterpiece like Look To The Sky, when you would already know that wouldn't work because of his obsession with the same hard bass beat and snare pattern he uses so often nowadays.

Sota can't nail traditional trance anymore, just like NAOKI can't pump out classic rave-house tunes one after another anymore. I guess it's sad if you think of it that way, but looking at both of their new, transformed styles, it really isn't much of a disapointment. Sota's new stuff is a little different, but refreshing and still fantastic, and NAOKI's stuff is way different, but still unique and each song has it's merits (although he seriously needs to get some better vocalists, sheesh).

About DMM, I finally got into a rut with that mode. It was fun for a lot of it, until the final board where all the songs were Level 9+ and one of them was yet another dreaded "FULL MARVELOUS COMBO!!" mission, or in otherwords, a "Go screw yourself and find another hobby!!" mission. Seriously, did Konami really expect their top consumers of the game to be robots when they focused so hard on trying to make this game as popular to the youngin's as possible with songs like Just Dance and Disturbia? It's just ridiculous.

One day....One day, I will get my first "FULL MARVELOUS COMBO!!", even if it ends up being Shine on Beginner. That I swear to. lol

[Oni-91]

About DMM, I finally got into a rut with that mode. It was fun for a lot of it, until the final board where all the songs were Level 9+ and one of them was yet another dreaded "FULL MARVELOUS COMBO!!" mission, or in otherwords, a "Go screw yourself and find another hobby!!" mission. Seriously, did Konami really expect their top consumers of the game to be robots when they focused so hard on trying to make this game as popular to the youngin's as possible with songs like Just Dance and Disturbia? It's just ridiculous.

LEVEL 5, What Will Come of Me, BASIC, Get 98 MARVELOUS!! or more, there are only 103 steps in the chart. NO, KONAMI. JUST NO.
And a LEVEL 6 mission is FC When I Grow Up Expert on 1x Dark. Nice consistency there.

[AaronRoberts]

geeeh, i couldnt do TIERRA BUENA =_=; the game's full of fail imo.
Konami need to get better step authors~ go back to a max - extreme type theme & bring back random movies, or have like EX2 had with all songs having their own videos.

[will-i-am]

omg I actually passed that What Will Come Of Me mission tho! But it took me like... 5 tries lol.

I'm just having an awful time trying to beat Alice's un deux trois Level 6 mission that requires at least 115 MARVELOUS!!. The only problem is there's only 121 combo and the song isn't perfectly onbeat! >.<

They really don't understand how hard it is to get MARVELOUS!!'s in that game. Stupid Konami.. D:

btw, why is every step chart full of freeze arrows?? I understand some of the charts are from Hottest Party and they seemed to really like freeze arrows in those games, but seriously it's giving me a headache to have to "hold down" little 8th note long freezes.

[Juub005]

About DMM, I finally got into a rut with that mode. It was fun for a lot of it, until the final board where all the songs were Level 9+ and one of them was yet another dreaded "FULL MARVELOUS COMBO!!" mission, or in otherwords, a "Go screw yourself and find another hobby!!" mission. Seriously, did Konami really expect their top consumers of the game to be robots when they focused so hard on trying to make this game as popular to the youngin's as possible with songs like Just Dance and Disturbia? It's just ridiculous.

LEVEL 5, What Will Come of Me, BASIC, Get 98 MARVELOUS!! or more, there are only 103 steps in the chart. NO, KONAMI. JUST NO.
And a LEVEL 6 mission is FC When I Grow Up Expert on 1x Dark. Nice consistency there.

I think the level 6 difficulty there comes from being forced to listen to the song.

[Rage*]

It does look good. SO want to play it.
They should put these licences in an arcade game ASAP.

[Juub005]

Hey, can anyone answer whether 2-player is possible in the Dice Master Mode in X2, and whatever the mission mode is in X? (It was in Supernova...)