It's here! In the Groove, the new "cousin of DDR" game for PS2, was released this week. I picked up my copy last night (thanks for the GC, Tom and Kathy!), and am already stepping away to a brand new selection of songs, blissfully devoid of J-Pop. Huzzah!
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I just got it too, and I was reading through the rulebook last night.
What's this about three arrow combos? You have to use your hand to get the third arrow?!?
Don't they know some of us are pregnant and can't lean over like that? :)
Yes, there are parts that have three and even four arrows at the same time, and to get them, you have to essentially play Twister. The concession they've made to the pregnant, though, is that for every song they show exactly how many jumps, holds, mines, and hands are in each song.
Oh yes... mines. If you are standing on an arrow when a mine scrolls by for that arrow, it blows up and you lose points. Mines are used to force you to get off and arrow you'd probably otherwise stand on and use to shift your weight for something else. Diabolical. :-)
On top of those interesting features, they've added something that the computer version, StepMania has had all along -- battle mode. Two players (or you vs. the computer) dance head to head, and your relative success causes the opponent's arrows to distort in funky ways. They can vanish, pulse, move, rotate... all sorts of distracting stuff. That one is incredibly fun, and I really wish the old "dance troop" was nearby for me to play with.
I don't think I've seen this one, but I've seen that MC Groove thing for the GameCube. Long songs (some over 8 minutes) and 8 arrows in the cardinal directions. Kinda neat, but not DDR. This one sounds a little better.
Bishop
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