A So-So DDR
posted by Kashabo (MIDLAND, MI) Feb 16, 2007
Member since Aug 2006
Yeah, it's DDR. You know the drill. There are songs. You dance to them. It's my main source of exercise. It's all good. But Extreme 2 is not all that good.
I was unimpressed by the song selection. Most songs were just not that danceable, either by being not upbeat enough or not outstanding enough that you could actually recognize it by its title. Personally, I thought "Copa de la Vida" and "Wonderful Night" were the only licensed songs I found enjoyable enough to be noteworthy, as well as a very small portion of the songs more typical of DDR (You know, the saccharine Japanese poppy stuff.)
The dancing characters still look PS1-level polygonal, and even though your focus should be on the arrows, they're so ugly and outdated you can't help but be distracted.
The predominant way of unlocking songs, the "Stellar Master Mode" is not very fun. It forces you to start playing songs at the easiest level and work your way up, giving you meager handfuls of points with which you buy new songs. For more advanced DDR players, this get annoying annoying annoying. By the time you get up to your level of play, you've become so sick of playing these songs that you want to punch the screen. And it's not like most of the songs you're unlocking are such a great incentive to keep going, either.
If you're going to play a DDR, I highly recommend SuperNOVA instead of Extreme 2.
5 out of 10.
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