Gameplay Arrows rise up from the bottom and you step on which direction it is facing. Graphics Decent. Nothing flashy but nothing bad either. Sound OK. This is my main review this time: the music. As you can see, DDR U2 contains a wide spectrum of music: It has the best and the worst tracks. .59 Remix This is very nice. It kind of sounds like a James Bond theme song near the end. 10/10 19, November Despite the misleading sample, it is actually good. But some of the lyrics are hard to understand and sound like gibberish. 8/10 321 Stars The ULTIMATE party song. This even defeats "We Like to Party" is sheer fun factor. 10/10 A If I had to pick one favorite DDR song, it would be this one. It has everything a good song needs: speed changes, a ton of arrows, and a great beat. A masterpiece. 10/10 After All Svenson and Geilen Remix The steps do not follow the music on Heavy, making this a very nice song with poor steps. 7/10 air If you like Caribbian... 6/10 Altitude Drum and Bass. It can be noisy at times, but it has a lot of bass, and I mean A LOT OF BASS. Only, what is with those 2 characters chasing each other in the background? 7/10 B4U This is one of those "this is truly DDR music!" tracks. Pretty good. 8/10 Baile la Samba Eh. Puts too much emphasis on 16th arrows. 6/10 Brick House You've heard of this, right? 10/10 Burn for You That stupid keyboard loop ruins the entire song. Don't bother. 4/10 C2 Very nice. Gotta love those robotic vocals! 10/10 Catch it! It sounds like the name should be switched with the title. It's way too noisy to recommend. 5/10 Close your Eyes Radio Edit Why is that woman sleeping in the middle of the road in the title screen? GET OUT OF THE WAY! Didn't like it. 3/10 Dam Dariram One of the first great DDR cuts! 9/10 (what is up with that name?) Dead End One of the hardest tracks in DDR. Sounds like a prison escape. 10/10 Disco Break Ugh. WAY too quiet! 4/10 Don't Stop Good if you like VR DJ music. 8/10 Dream a Dream Miami Booty Mix I'd rather have the original version. 7/10 Drop Out Attention! This is NOT THE ORIGINAL! It sounds like someone is changing the volume during the track. Disappointing version of an amazing song. 5/10 Eyespy This cut would be a good chillout track if it wasn't for that "bee buzzing toward you" sound. Very annoying. 5/10 Flashdance What a Feeling Decent. 7/10 Fly Through the Night Beautiful. Love that piano! 10/10 G2 I love that cat in the title screen! The song itself is very hard and mysterious. 10/10 Gyruss Full Tilt This is actually based on another video game! 10/10 Hit 'N' Slap Cool song, man! MC style! 10/10 I Feel T.O.Y. Remix It's a big beat version of the original. Pretty good, albeit a bit noisy at times. 7/10 I'm in Heaven Radio Edit Oy......another one of those "why do we need this song here anyway" deals. 3/10 Istanbul Cafe Should have been called Arabian Cafe if you ask me, but still a nice music track over all. 9/10 Jam on it Unbelieveable. The absolute worst song on DDR, period. Annoying beat. Confusing steps that try to follow the music. I could go on and on about this disaster of a song. 1/10 La Cucaracha This is not the original! It's still ok if you like techno-rock remixes. 7/10 Leading Cyber I was hooked on this song the first time I played it in the arcade, and now it gets to go to a console system? You'll love this Leading Cyber as well! 10/10 Life is a Game Too quiet to recommend. 5/10 Lookin for You This is actually pretty good; has great guitar patterns and nice steps. 8/10 Love Love Shine Perfect! The best J-Pop DDR cut ever! 10/10 I'll take a break from the main song list and go to the songpacks now; I want to get them out of the way. #11 Decent is the word for this songpack. All the tracks are around the same length, with no really hard or really easy ones. Helpless Eh. Sounds good, then the singing ruins it, but then the middle part really brings it back to life. 7/10 Open the P.A. This is your basic J-Techno track: repetitive with very minimal changes. It does sound very good, though, and should satisfy most people. 9/10 Guilty It actually sounds like a remix of Open the P.A., and I expected it to be longer (it's from DJ Setup, who also made the 2:07 long Nemesis). 7/10 Diamond Jealousy AGH! Forget, O Jiya, Regret, Jam on it, and Waverer Slide Mix. THIS "song" is the absolute WORST thing in DDR history. You want an idea of how it goes? @*$*(@$*()#@$&*)(#&%)&#)&%)UR)#HFHFBBG(*C V(@HEHF)EBHC(VIEWFHGF)HG)G*G#*GREUIFHEFHOQEHOIUWHQ)W*(. Translate that to guitar form and you get this disaster. Akira Yamaoka really needs to go back to the "I Feel" era of his music. Once again, I WANT MAX. PERIOD! (sure, Max. period is also noisecore, but it's at least good noise) -1/10 My ears were hurting after this "music" at a low volume. Hold on me The best track on this song pack. Really good replay value. 10/10 #10 This is much better than songpack 9, but still has some bad ones on here. Hack Sounds very good. It combines the techno sound with glitch-style fizz. But it repeats too much and gets boring. 6/10 Love This Feelin' Ok, we've got a heavy metal rap funk crunk electro song on here. Actually, it works out pretty well, but the vocals are playing nonstop and some of them can get to be very grating. 8/10 R5 This one sounds COMPLETLY diffrent from R10K and even more than R3. While R3 stuck with big beat/lounge, and R10K became a MIDI-beep track, R5 sounds more like a chillout track with just the right amount of drum n bass. You'll love this one! 10/10 Real The absolute best song on any songpack, so far. Even more than Nemesis. It's a 200 bpm journey through house, glitch, and samples. You'll be playing this one over and over again! 10/10 Bug: It only shows Real's stepchart for Light. Waverer Slide Mix This is by Akira Yamaoka? Why did we get this? It's got a bassline that's "supposed" to be a beat, while this woman is murmuring gibberish as the song repeats three times. How come we're not getting Twinbee Generation X or MAX period on the song packs? (I'm going to keep typing "I want MAX period!" until I get it on songpack 11, or 12, or 100....) 0/10 #9 Some people think this is the best songpack, but trust me: it is not. Disabled the FLAW I loved this song so much.......until it ended at 1:10! This song is so short it makes Jam and Marmalade seem as long as Nemesis! I expected much more out this cut.....5/10 Forever Sunshine The only ok song on here. Pretty decent, but the vocals can get cheesy at certain points. 7/10 jelly kiss A mess. Sounds like a house track put into a blender with the highest setting. Has no rhythym. Too bad, because it sounds pretty interesting. (How come the game is still rated E with this track on there? It's the most provocative song in the entire game. 4/10 O Jiya Forget Jam on it! Listen to the vocals. They absolutely ruin this already silly sounding track. Trust me. It sounds like an O-Zone understudy. I can't belive the songs that are on this song pack when we should be getting MAX. period instead. 0/10 Regret Listening to the sample, I immediately thought of Miyazaki's animated masterpieces like Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service. It's got an anime feel to it. So I tried it out. I could not have been more wrong. The vocals. Oh my goodness. They are even worse than O Jiya's. This guy is trying to sing but ends up having to tune his voice from high to low. What were they thinking? 2/10(at least the piano solos are good) #8 This song pack is better than #9, but still isn't even close to songpacks 1, 2, and 3. Bailalaika, Carried with the Wind Well, if you are folk kind of person, this is your song. Well I like techno, and I like this song as well. Extend your musical tastes! 9/10 Bug: if you look on the song select screen, this track only shows the groove radar for Light. Weird, huh? To be continued. Just let me tell you something: Why is the game rated E? It should be rated T. I'll explain why. First there's the fan-service-esque main cover. Secondly, 2 of the 4 dancers (Emi and Lady) have some of the most suggestive dance moves in DDR history. Don't forget some of the tracks! On Route 80's, there's this one section where the singer raps the words "**** the beats" over and over again And jelly kiss, Leading Cyber, and Superstar all have some suggestive sound or sample in it. Why is this game rated E?
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