STsung’s Blog

Few days ago new GFDM game was at test location in Japan and we have news about the game. Unlike last time were it was more about new songs and difficulties this time there’s something “revolutionary”.

So here it goes:

Guitar Freaks XG and Drummania XG are the new titles for the upcoming series (not V something thus)

The arcade machines use a wide LCD monitor (looks the same as the DDRX one)

Radar Chart is removed (I don’t get it why because that’s how I was picking songs to play *sniff*)

Difficulties aren’t 1 to 99 anymore but rather one digit followed by two decimals. Thus 1.00 is the easiest and 9.99 should be the most difficult one.

It also seems that in order to clear a song your bar needs to be above a certain percentage like in IIDX, PNM etc

There are 5 buttons instead of 3 on the neck of the guitar

BSC and ADV use only 4 buttons, EXT uses all of them

Long notes have been added

When wailing (that can be done either up and down horizontally) there’s a vibration (can be turned off)

There are huge speakers next to each cabinet side!

Left cymbal, hi-hat pedal and floor tom have been added so the line looks like => left cymbal, hi-hat, hi-hat pedal, snare, high tom, bass, low tom, floor tom and right cymbal.

Machine now features a stage platform with support frames around the machine which means that you are kind of “inside” and not in the open.

In game you’ve got most of the screen showing the column in which the notes scroll. Under the target line you can see all the drums and cymbals depicted. It takes quite a lot of space and is actually quite needed as there are new things for you to catch up. (left cymbal, 2 hi-hats, 2 toms)
In the back you’ve got some real drums showing (animated). On the left side you’ve got stuff like difficulty and such. On the right side you see your combo in HUGE digits.
All this is done in 3d “high tech” version.
The songwheel reminds me of PIU NX style. You scroll to left or right and it shows the song/album cover
The judgements are WAY TOO flashy.