I played SuperNOVA

For the three people who still read this forum:

I finally got around to playing DDR SuperNOVA. There's one at GameWorks in Columbus, in addition to the three at Cedar Point. It costs $2.60 per play at GameWorks, but at least you get four songs.

I can't remember all the songs I liked, but I really, really, really like No. 13. Also enjoyed Flowers, AA, Red Zone, Under the Sky (lol 6-footer... the ending will kill any unsuspecting n00bs who think they can manage it), Mondo Street, Stars***, DoLL (challenge steps are awesome), and Matsuri Japan J-Summer mix. Tino's White Horse is OK, too; reminds me of Hardcore of the North from In the Groove.

I hated Seduction Vocal Mix, Konoko... (really long Japanese title) and Monkey Punk. MP might be the stupidest DDR song of all time.

Interface blows. I hate how it reverts to default sort after each song, I hate how you have to hit the buttons at *exactly* the same time to activate the sort, I hate how it takes forever to scroll through the difficulty levels.

Also, the flak about some songs being off-sync is definitely deserved. First song I played was Tomorrow, which I know pretty much by heart because it's one of my favorite songs from the home versions. But I ended up with 30 perfects, more than 100 greats and something like 40 goods. Not kidding.

I did end up with two new AA's, Nos. 233 and 234.

Two more observations: One song, I forget which, says the tempo changes from 140 to 280. I kept waiting for it but it never came. Also, it seems like a lot of songs start up right away... caught me off guard a few times. And the flat screen is sweet.

The biggest disappointment for me is the missed opportunity to include songs from older mixes, such as Flash in the Night, Lupin the 3rd, Theme from Enter the Dragon, Ghosts, etc. Seems like they also dropped a lot of the best songs that were on Extreme (Rhythm and Police, So Deep, Cartoon Heroes) while keeping the worst (Cutie Chaser, Daikenkai).

The reason that the Extreme songs you mentioned were dropped is because they are all licesned Dancemania songs that Konami has to pay the rights to use in each DDR game. Cuite Chaser and Daikenkai are Konami originals that they created so there are no fees involved with those songs.

I also would have liked to see some of the older songs you mentioned and would have liked to see the songs that were never released on any home version included like More Than I Needed To Know, Senorita, Petit Love etc.

So, in all does it suck as much as people say?

I don't think it's a great mix but any new arcade mix is welcome to me because I am sick of Extreme and how in the past few years every arcade in my area upgraded from older mixes to Extreme. It seems like there aren't enough new songs. I can see it getting boring after a few months but I'll probably pick up the likely Japanese PS2 release (figuring a US release for PS2 will have some of the licensed songs cut)