STsung’s Blog

KONAMI stands are usually white with nothing special and nothing that would catch the
eye. This year at GC nothing has changed. On the first day of GC there was a preview of
Rock Revolution (imagine Guitar Hero stage and people from KONAMI on the stage showing
their new cool game). Rock Revolution is a KONAMI US game similar to Rock Band. How the
game will look like/feel like is yet up to see.

DS Supernova 2
At KONAMI stand we could play Dancing Stage Supernova 2 which was supposed to be
already released in August but was delayed. They say that the game is still not
finished. But I don’t see anything unfinished about the game except for example the
fact that after an extra stage all the modifiers you set are reset. (at least you don’t
end up with Beginner difficulty). Well, DS SN2 is same as DDR US. It is easier in game
play with more licensed songs with nothing special to offer. Should be released in September this year.

DS Supernova 2 box art is more red/pink than anything. It has a red female dancer (which is not even attractive) in the middle of the box art. Also this color can be seen on all the Dancing Stage t-shirts you could get at KONAMI stand. (pink….why pink???)

DS Hottest Party
The second dance game at the stand was DS Hottest Party 1. Yeah, you see it correctly
1. Not 2 as promised. I better not comment on this game. This game is played on a dance
pad, but you are also forced to use nunchuk for left nunchuk notes and wiimote for
right wiimote notes. There are also other items like step/hand mines which are moving
objects that scroll up to the targets and if you DON’T step on them it will take some
of your life from the life bar. Thus “oh, this is a mine I should avoid it will make
you fail.” The game is targeted at beginners and people who will hardly play any other
DDR game….

DS Universe 2
The last game at their “enlarged” dancing stage stand was DS Universe 2. I’ve never
played the previous games on this console but I have to say I was disgusted with it.
The songlist is bad for a CS version. The game was far more offsync than Hottest Party
and Supernova so I suppose that even on lag free TV it would be offsync. The
animations are quite nice. But who needs big and “nice” note judgements? Who needs
different colored target arrows? Seems like bright pink is now popular at KONAMI.
Empress and now DS Universe? I just can’t write anything objective about this game. The
whole feel of the game is like “KONAMI US just made another bad DDR game…”.