Platform: Windows/Mac
Developer: Digital Praise
Publisher: Digital Praise
Genre: Rhythm/Action
Number of Players: 1-4 Players
Release Date: October 31st, 2007 Dance Praise.
Yes, it is a Christian game. A Christian
Dance game. It does one thing different from all the other Christian games though. What does it do different?
It doesn't totally suck.
Gameplay:
DP2:RMX is, naturally, a very similar game to DDR, ITG, whatever. However, it does have some different things going for it. For some reason (probably so Konami won't sue) the game is forced Reverse. I was never a huge fan of Reverse to begin with, but it's bearable here. Also, no mods. I didn't expect the game to have mods, but someone might, so just a heads-up. DP2 also has a type of Freeze Arrow. It's a...rather odd type of arrow. In DP2 it's called a "Hold Arrow". Now, the Hold Arrow functions very much like a Freeze, but in my experience I got misses unless I hit the last part of the Hold (i.e, Step-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-STEP!). The Life Gauge is called the Power Bar in DP2. Unlike DDR, the higher the Power Bar goes, the higher your points go. As in, Once you break past a certain point on the bar, every step will be worth 2x the normal amount. If the bar fills, every step is worth 4x the original amount.
But what about the steps, Ty?
The steps in the game are...fairly easy. The game was defaulted onto Medium difficulty, however I've played harder Beginner-level songs on DDR...
However, Expert level is decently hard. Not OMGWTF hard, just like 7-footers and the like. There is an overt abuse of L-U-R and R-U-L though. How bad is it? Well, take Boomin' by tobyMac. Most of the verse is composed of a single repeating pattern of L-U-R. It got rather annoying after awhile. The step ratings are a tad different from DDR/ITG too. The scale is 1 arrow (easiest) to 5 arrows (hardest). There was also an option to change from dedicated patterns to computer-generated steps, but for obvious reasons I avoided this. There was also a slight problem with syncing. It didn't happen all the time, but sometimes the songs would float in and out of sync, but as I said previous it didn't happen every time, and it didn't happen very often.
7/10 Graphics:
The graphics are okay, not amazing. You get a simple repeating background video that is in all the screens. If you get tired of it you can change it, there's like 15 other videos. The CD art serves as the "banner" for the songs, and in gameplay you get some funky little iPod dancers in the corner. Arrows are Flat arrows (i.e, they don't change according to the beat/offbeat/whatever thing). The menus are Ultramixy in a somewhat cheap kind of way. So yeah, they're okay, not "WOW!".
6.5/10 Sound/Music:
Ehhhhhh...There's some tracks on here I like, some I don't. Some should have never even been stepped for the game, the worst offenders being "How Can I Keep From Singing" by Chris Tomlin and "Blessed Be Your Name" by Tree63. Good songs, horrible choices for a dance game. There's 52 songs on the game in total, which isn't a bad number. Less than most recent DDRs, more than other lesser dance games. Only about 5-9 of the songs are unlockable though, which isn't really all that great. Pretty good songlist, however Digital Praise really needs to rethink putting soft rock in a dance game though.
7.5/10 Replay Value: Get 4 mats and this is
the Christian party game. Other than that once you unlock all the songs you could play them or Dancetris.
8/10 Overall: The game is pretty easy, yeah, but it can be alot of fun as well. Also, Tetris on a dancemat is actually pretty cool. One more thing:
THE MAT WORKS PERFECTLY WITH STEPMANIA. You don't need to download any extra drivers or anything, just Plug and Play!
Gameplay:
7/10
Graphics:
6.5/10
Sound/Music:
7.5/10
Replay Value:
8/10
Average Rating:
7.25/10
Final Rating:
7.25/10 B
Dance Praise 2: the ReMiX (PC) + DP Mat 
