The Triad: X, Hottest Party 2, and Universe 3 | X PRERELEASE

[Reenee]

PRELIMINARY SONGLIST FOR DDR X US PS2:

(Song name - Artist)

Licenses
Butterfly (2008 X-edit) - SMiLE.dk
DUB-I-DUB (2008 X-edit) - Me & My
Get Up'N Move (2008 X-edit) - S&K
Hero (2008 X-edit) - Papaya
30 Lives - (DDR Song Contest Winner)
Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
Boy (DJ Irene Rockstar Mix) - Book of Love
Feel - Neuropa
Ghetto Blasta Deluxe - Audio Magnetics
Happy - Fischerspooner
Here It Goes Again - OK Go
Here We Go - Ozomatli (with video)
Put 'Em Up - Edun
Open - Dub Pistols
Sound of Freedom - Bob Sinclair ft. Cutie B., Bary Pine, and Dollarman
Synthesized - The Epoxies
Till the Lonely's Gone - (DDR song Contest Winner)
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Wine Red (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Retouch) - The Hush Sound

KONAMI ORIGINALS
Dance Celebration - Bill Hamel
Dance Floor - neuras feat. Yurai
Flight of the Phoenix - Jena Rose
Flourish - sonic-coll. feat. Frances Maya
GIRIGILI Burning 24H! - Cheki-ROWS
Inspiration - DKC Crew
On the Break - Darwin
Party Lights - Tommie Sunshine
Poseidon - NAOKI Underground
puzzle - 日本少年
S-A-G-A - Veeton
SABER WING - TAG
Slip Out - Harmony Machine
SOUL CRASH - nc. ft. HARDCORE NATION
stealh - Daisuke Asakura
Tah He Spitz - DKC Crew
Ticket to Bombay - Jena Rose
TimeHollow - Masanori Akita
Tracers (4Beat Remix) - Ruffage & Size
Trust -DanceDanceRevolution mix- (from the Gurren Lagann anime)

Summary:
Expect the "standard" features set in place in SuperNOVA and SuperNOVA 2. Revised visuals, 8-player LAN mode, and Xmixes are new features to expect. Xmixes take after 3rd Mix Nonstop Megamixes or, if you prefer a more recent example, Power Mixes from Ultramix 4/Universe games.

That list of licenses looks a bit small. That's 40 songs already. Might be a couple more songs to squeeze out. It'd really suck if that's all the old songs Konami is putting in here.

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PRELIMINARY SONGLIST FOR DDR HOTTEST PARTY 2 US

(Artist - Song [origin])

Licenses

Originally Posted by tora

Bill Hamel - All Good Things (Come To An End) (Originally by Nelly Furtado)
Jenn Cuneta - Come Rain Come Shine
Mickey Disco - Feel Together (Originally by Ben MacKlin Feat. Tiger Lily)
Kim English - My Destiny
Haley Hunt - Umbrella (Originally by Rihanna)
♪♪♪♪♪ - Makes Me Wonder (Originally by Maroon 5)
Tommie Sunshine - Everybody Dance (Originally by Chic)
Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Prince Royal - Black Or White (Originally by Michael Jackson)
♪♪♪♪♪ - Can't Help Falling In Love With You (Originally by Elvis Presley)
The Block Brothers - Tootsee Roll (Originally by 69 Boys)
♪♪♪♪♪ - Walking On Sunshine (Originally by Katrina and the Waves)
♪♪♪♪♪ - We Got The Beat (Originally by The GO-GOs)
Pop n' Fresh - I Want Candy (Originally by The Strangeloves)
Young MC - Bust A Move
♪♪♪♪♪ Don't You (Forget About Me) (Originally by Simple Minds)
Spacebar, Naught G & Bill Hamel - I Ran (Originally by A Flock of Seagulls)
Brooklyn Fire Obsession (Originally by ??)
♪♪♪♪♪ - You're The One That I Want (Originally from Grease)
System 7 - Scramble
♪♪♪♪♪ - 5 O'Clock (Originally by The Perceptionists)
♪♪♪♪♪ - Call On Me (Originally by Eric Prydz)
FRAZ - Night Runner (Originally by Duran Duran feat. Justin Timberlake)
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

KONAMI ORIGINALS (presumably)

(Song - Artist)

Closer to my Heart (jun remix) - NM feat. Heather Elmer
Desert Journey - dj TAKA
Dreamin' - TOMOSUKE feat. Adreana
escape - U1 & Krystal B
Habibe (Antuh muhleke) - Wendy Parr
I WANT YOUR LOVE (Darwin remix) - GAV
INTO YOUR HEART (Ruffage Remix) - NAOKI feat. YASMINE
KYOKA-SUIGETSU-ROW (DDR EDITION) - ＴЁЯＲＡ feat. Uchusentai NOIZ
LOVING YOU (Epidemik remix) - TONI LEO
My Love - NM feat. Melissa Petty
No Matter What - jun feat. Rita Boudreau
Open Your Eyes - NM feat. JaY_bEe
Racing with Time（NAOKI's 999 remix) - jun feat. Godis
REACH THE SKY (Orbit1 remix) - TAYA
Settin' the Scene - U1 night style
Somehow You Found Me - DIGI-SEQ-BAND2000
STAY (Joey Riot remix) - DANNY D
SUPER HERO - DJ YOSHITAKA feat. Michaela Thurlow
The Lonely Streets - DJ YOSHITAKA feat. Robert "RAab" Stevenson
Unity - The Remembers
We Can Win The Fight - D-crew feat. Matt Tucker

Summary:

Hottest Party 2 is bringing in another entirely new songlist to the DDR series. It seems that the devs are a bit more confident now since there are non-cover licenses present. Even better is another new round of original KOs present. In addition, HP2 is set to have features to resemble a more traditional DDR game, such as having a Course Mode and Training Mode. Game/Console-specific features include Mii integration, additional gimmicks, and more Wii Remote usage. For those who are not looking at the scrolling arrows, the dancers have all-new routines, now interact with each other, and the game's training mode also lets you observe the routines themselves for you to try!

[hyper kitten]

Taj He Spitz has some excellent artwork in my opinion.

Also , hello reworked DDR max 2 dance gauge.

[Reenee]

X looks like it's trying to be edgy and urban. And not to be nitpicky but the way the STAGE text looks on the lifebars has some more blur than it needs to is bothering me. And I dislike the reskins of the SuperNOVA stages. I'm getting hints it's trying to back to its roots in terms of graphical style though but in a modernized/reiterated manner.

Universe 3 looks BEAUTIFUL.
Enough said.

Hottest Party 2's characters look slightly tolerable for some reason. And the way the two avatars were interacting with each other give me hope that the quality of the first game is still present here. My most anticipated out of the three. And the way that it's a full-featured game like the PS2 versions is even better.

EDIT- Universe has Marvelous now. Hottest Party is using EXTREME-era videos in their stages. I see that spinning heart and the rising sparkles. Heh.

[Oni-91]

DDR X

OK, I'm probably being a bit stingy, and it probably is only a beta-ish thing, but I don't like the look of the interface at all. It looks like an amateurish SN2 recolour. And the 10th anniversary stage just looks plain wrong.

UNIVERSE 3

Senses!? AGAIN!? Damn, they really love that song. Anyway, loving the fact that they're using something other than Arial...until I realised how often they used it...and is that Less Than Three I spy!?

Hottest Party 2

What's that bottom meter supposed to represent? *strokes beard* Otherwise, same old, same old. But with Miis.

[Dream Traveler Klonoa]

It's great to see that we're getting all the songs from SN2 that we didn't get in SN2 US like TimeHollow and Poseidon.

[piepiepie75]

I like the DDR:X stages. At lease they're SOMETHING now, rather than just a platform with floating blocks. They really look better than the SN/SN2 stages imo. And the characters also look nice.

I reckon X might be a filler game until the next AC game is released, since it looks like SN2 US is gonna be unlocking stuff until November. They'll probably give us a heaping of all the stuff we missed in SN2, along with maybe 10 or so new Konami originals. T'would be nice anyways.

[Gosha]

I'm surprised no one is happy about a new Kors K song in Universe 3.

Gametrailers.com - DDR Universe 3 - Konami Gamers' Day 08: Debut Gameplay Trailer

I'm pretty happy about the end of that trailer!

[Riku]

X looks awesome, but if it follows the American trend of giving us a large percentage of the songs already found on SN2 Jp, I'll pass.

The Universe franchise appears to be taking yet another nosedive into what seems to be overly colorful graphics and constantly repeated songs (lets Senses go already). However, I do agree with Reenee. As overly colorful as the game looks, its pretty as hell. The Pump it Up like interface looks pretty cool. I just pray that the fix the the problems that have plague the series since Universe 1 was first released.

HP 2 looks interesting to say the very least. I'm not overly fond of some of the licenses they choose, but the KOs can definitely make up for it.

I'm anticipating X the most for the possibility of fresh new songs, the graphical overfall, and the possibility of a Japanese CS variation with a brand new song list.

[hyper kitten]

Originally Posted by Gosha

I'm surprised no one is happy about a new Kors K song in Universe 3.

Gametrailers.com - DDR Universe 3 - Konami Gamers' Day 08: Debut Gameplay Trailer

I'm pretty happy about the end of that trailer!

Congrats on another video of your making it ontoa DDR game.

Also , were those.. LYRICS on an American DDR ?

[TyTigeriku]

Is that Less Than Three?

Huh. Sweet. :3

EDIT: OH MY GOD IT'S VALENCIA

AND GUY

and fursuits

BUT VALENCIA IS BACK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[FFR4EVA_00]

The stages for DDR X are actually interesting. Hopefully it's a good sign. Also, Taj He Spitz looks like a somewhat harder standard chart than what we're used to with SN and SN2. Then again, it is slower.

[Cali]

That didnt just say Kors K, It said DM Ashura Ft Kors K. That could be cool.

[Chewphoria]

What is this song?

[FFR4EVA_00]

Universe 3 looks amazing. Graphics are amazing, DJ Mode sounds interesting, and most importantly, Your Angel. To me, "feat. kors k" means he might be doing vocals. Despite that, it's a good sign that there will be a fair amount of Konami Originals in this game, which Universe 2 had a serious lack of.
Also, @Chewphoria: gee i don't know i mean it's not like the title is right at the bottom of the picture

[Mantic]

I can't wait to hear the DM Ashura feat. kors k track...especially if kors k is doing vocals. It's quite nice to see some overseas collaborations going on here.