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-Konami (2006) -played on a Motorola Slvr
Summary Tap your fingers to the non-beat of tinny music.
Now let’s see if this really makes sense. Let’s take the hugely popular Dance Dance Revolution series that you play with your feet and port it to a cell phone. On the consoles, the DDR games can be played via a dance mat or with a controller. In the controller respect it makes a little more sense, but only for those that play the game with a controller, and most people don’t. DDR games contain dozens of songs, sometimes going well over a hundred with lots of dance, trance, pop, and generally any electronica that has a good beat. The selection of songs in the mobile version is pitiful. There are only eleven “songs” to choose from and they are the blandest music I’ve heard in a DDR game. Granted, it’s on a cell phone, but the songs could have had, I dunno, something of a beat at least. They all sound like a few notes drawn out in different patterns. All the songs sound like they’re missing the other half of the music. While I played I had to make my own beat in my head just so I could get into timing the button presses. If you’re going to do a game almost entirely based on music, then you had better do it right. At least the game has a Silent Hill song, but that isn’t saying much when it sounds just as bad as all the others. To go along with the enormously weak music selection there are a total of three backgrounds to set behind your moving arrows. Only three. This means you’ll get to look at the exact same island, DDR logo, and "break down" shirt person over and over. The responsiveness of the key presses is actually pretty good. You can use the directional pad or the 2, 4, 6, and 8 keys. The arrows are all the same ones from the games with the straight press arrows, doubles, and the hold arrows. To spice things up there are also a few arrow modes such as sudden and stealth. You can also change the difficulty if you somehow really get into playing a glorified Simon Says on your phone. Unless you are the biggest DDR fan and can bust out hot moves while tapping buttons on your phone avoid this. Unlike the arcade and console DDRs, the mobile version is neither fun to play or watch others play it.
-Shawn
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