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Dance Dance Revolution Supernova

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I have all the other DDR and DDR-type games for PS2, and am enjoying this one so far, though I really hate the Stellar Master Mode, which you are forced to play to unlock new songs. You can get points to purchase new songs from playing the normal way, but you unlock songs to purchase by playing the Stellar Master Mode, which features all sorts of odd challenges, like strange arrows or arrows that move in odd ways. I play DDR by freshening up my instinct and so retraining my instinct to follow odd arrows is not any fun for me.

Then a lot of the songs are a bit too easy for me. I am not a great player by any means, so when I can get an A on Heavy (or Expert as they call it now) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun on my first try it is a bit disappointing. I'd like to have something to work towards!

Still, if you are a fan of the series this will give you some fun new songs to play! But if you are new to the series I'd get DDR Extreme 2 or DDR Max 2 - those are my favorites.

The following are the fresh out of the box songs that you get, and the rest you have to unlock:

Battle Without Honor or Humanity - Tomoyasu Hotei
Centerfold (130BPM Move It Remix) - Captain Jack
Come Clean - MM feat. Susan Z
Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
Freckles (KCP Re-Edit) - Tiggy
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Heaven is a Place on Earth (German Election Mix) - Julia
Jerk It Out - Caesars
L.E.F. (Loud Eletronic Ferocious) - Ferry Corsten
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Mr. Dabada (Groove Wonder Remix) - Carlos Jean
Robogirl - The Crystal Method
Shivers (Radio Edit) - Armin Van Buuren
Shout - Lulu
Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson)
The Other Side (Radio Mix) - Paul van Dyk feat. Wayne Jackson
Turn On the Music (Axwell Radio Edit) - Roger Sanchez
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
Flow (True Style) - Scotty D. revisits U1
Fly Away - Chiyotia
My Only Shining Star - Naoki feat. Becky Lucinda
Peace (^^)V - BeForU
Star Gate Heaven - SySF. feat. Donna Burke
True {heart} Love - Jun
Curus - D-Crew
Mugen - TERRA
No. 13 - Taka respect for J.S.B.
Xepher - Tatsh
DoLL - TERRA
Hit 'n' Slap - Asletics

DDR Supernova is the best installment out for new players. Its version of "Dance master" mode is well geared towards teaching people who have never played quickly learn the basics.

The game includes roughly 70 songs. There is an increased emphasis on licensed songs that anyone would recognize - Shout, Centerfold, and Funkytown are but a few of the older ones. More modern include a trance rendition of "Heaven is a place on Earth" and Hillary Duff's "Come Clean". There are about 20 of these. Noticeably absent are the "repeats" that were present in other DDR games. There is also a lot less emphasis on trance/techno songs than in other versions.

The step-charting is greatly improved over prior versions. 7 and 8 feet songs can be challenging without using long sprints of 16 or 32 notes - there are more "irregular patterns" that still go with the beat, but are not just endless streams of 4/8 notes. Nearly every hard song (now called expert) includes a jump in the middle of a short quarter-note stream.

My biggest complaint about this version is that you cannot unlock songs by normal play - you must use its Superstar mode. This requires that you play many songs on "beginner" and do many unusual drills which are often instructional for new players. The later challenges are interesting and challenging, but I dislike being forced to do these in order to unlock songs.

My second minor complaint is regarding its "Save game" feature. Past versions of DDR save automatically. Supernova offers to save each time you go to the main menu, requiring you to select "Yes". Then you must select "Yes" to overwrite the old saved data. This new feature wastes my time.

*Minor spoiler for unlocking songs quickly*
Each venue has a list of "tasks" to complete. If you complete 1/3 of these tasks, you can attempt a "showdown". Beating the showdown unlocks all the songs from that venue. If you want to unlock songs as fast as possible, pick songs that meet multiple tasks - many venues can be surpassed by just doing a few songs. While there are 3 showdowns per venue (with each successive one becoming available as you complete more and more tasks), just doing the first unlocks all the songs.

Being a fan of DDR, I'm always compelled to get the latest Dance Dance Revolution game whenever it comes out. After playing this, I was happy that I had more fun than the other version of DDR that I've played.

The main thing that caught my attention was the amount of original music from old songs, like Cyndy Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, to new songs, like Paul Van Dyk's The Other Side, that was put into this mix. Alongside that, they kept some of their videos too. The range of music is definately better than any of the previous mixes in DDR history.

The way to unlock the mixes is to travel planet to planet and complete tasks and challenges. While it's fun and will help you get better at the game, some tasks and challenges are downright evil and, without a little creativity, could take forever to try and pass. This being said, to unlock everything you must pass all the challenges, which will take a long time to do.

One of the main beefs is the addition of new red songs, which are the hardest songs in the DDR game. While previous mixes have kept their songs challenging, to the beat of the song, and still fun to try and beat, these songs are not even close. The steps created are too challenging and don't even have a beat associated with the steps. While I do like a challenge, this isn't even worth trying.

But, more than likely, you won't be playing those songs. I really suggest this version of DDR as opposed to the others. You'll definately have more fun with it.

DDR has certainly changed over the years. With the latest installment (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova) one can see the change dramatically. Stellar Dance Mode is for most a complete waste of time as it requires us to play songs we do not want to and in modes we do not want to just to unlock songs in the game. Some of the licensed songs are remixed versions that are below par to the original versions while other licensed songs are thrown on here just because they are already in other bemani games (Karaoke Revolution, Beatmania USA). There are many Japanese songs on this mix as well as instrumentals that seem out of place in DDR.

We get songs from the arcade version (not the best ones in my opinion) and some new licenses (some which came out of nowhere it seems)but the feel of DDR has totally changed now and I miss what it used to be.

The Double steps are quite good in this game.

This is a great way to have fun and loose weight without even trying to hard. I have lost 10 lbs just doing 15 songs a day for 2 weeks, not bad!!!I would recommend this for anyone who would like to get in shape very easily. My daughter and I compete to get the highest score and we are both loosing extra winter lbs to boot!

I have been playing DDR Extreme 2 for almost a year as a form of exercise. I was excited to hear that a new title, DDR Supernova, was coming out, and I preordered it. I am really quite disappointed in the game. I hate the method of unlocking songs, it doesn't seem to make any sense, and I am not an idiot. The Workout Mode is lousy, the menu is not intuitive and I can't set it the way I want. Some of the new songs are great, but since I can't seem to unlock any new ones I am pretty frustrated. I had no problem unlocking songs etc. with the previous version I own.

I have all of the DDRs that there are for Play Station 2. This is my favorite version yet. Here are a list of my favorite songs-
~True Love
~Since You've Been Gone
~Curus
~Video Killed the Radio Star

There are lots of good songs, so if you're planning on getting DDR and don't know which version to buy, get this one!

A couple of really good songs, but mostly just crap. Unlock mode is really, really, really confusing, so you basically have the same songs the whole time unless you want to spend 5 or 6 hours playing beginner songs in "Stellar Master mode." It starts you out with about 6 or 7 good songs, and the rest are really just mediocre. Great step patterns. Recommend buying in the groove or an older version, instead of this. Over-priced and just alright, overall.

This game rocks! The only thing though is my mats. Thats not the games fault(the mats fault). I'm getting so good. The songs sounds live and there are some music videos like Dance Dance. The only thing is each levels are totally different. I did Mugan on basic, it was so easy difficult, and I failed, even my sister ( who's so so good at the game). But still that didn't stop me. I'm only nine and this game seems easy alot (basic not difficult). If you get this game don't be suprised if your kid is addicted I know I am! Tip ( if your going to a different level do funkytown it's the easiest song in the whole game). I guess what I'm trying to say is this game is so good it's scary ( in a good way). Failing a song will get you so mad you just want to scream. But don't let that get to you. When you get a better score then you ever did you will feel amazing. Well I guess I said way way to much I don't want to boared you but still, PLEASE BY THIS GAME IT ROCKS!

Unlike the first four installments of DDR for the PS2, this one seems to be aimed at the hardcore players.

Veterans will like the inclusion of five 10-footers, which is almost as many as the first four games combined had. There's also a large number of J-pop songs, which tend to be the favorites of long-time DDR players but not so much for newbies, who like the "exclusive" junk like Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone."

That said, the exclusives are well done, too, and some of them pretty difficult.

The best thing about this game, however, is that it's the closest thing we've gotten in the U.S. to a direct arcade translation. There are a lot, A LOT, of songs on here from the arcade version of SuperNOVA, including the best songs such as No. 13, DoLL, Zephyr, Chaos, Ki-Se-Ki and many more.

That also might be the game's weak point, though, since it sticks with the lame backgrounds and interface of the arcade version as well. The cell-shaded dancers of DDR Extreme 2 looked much better, and that game had neat, custom-made videos for almost every song. Here, a few songs have videos, but most just have a dancer on a stage throughout the entire song.

As others have mentioned, the unlocking method is no fun at all. I'm not sure why game companies feel compelled not to let us play the game how we want to play it, even after we've paid $40 for it. If they insist on having unlocks, at least give us a code to override it or something... not everyone has hours and hours to devote to playing rudimentary levels over and over just to unlock the good stuff.

Overall, though, the base game of Dance Dance Revolution is the best game concept to come along in years, and it boils down to the question of, "Is it still fun to stomp on arrows in time to music?" The answer is yes, it still is, and this game provides the expected annual song update.

But my advice would be to scrap the home games altogether, and get out there and play in the arcade. It's a lot more satisfying.