It's a 9. But a decent 9. Not a Cartoon Heroes, if you know what I mean. I just wish it could have more fast streams.

EDIT: Oh on Difficult.... it's a 6 on Difficult and a 9 on Expert. No Challenge step either :( At least DoLL on Challenge is really cool.

Well I've been playing mostly Xepher and Knock Out Regrets... haha those two are my most overplayed songs... I'd play Tino's White Horse if the steps didn't suck... but they do... so yeah...

Yeah, I'm gonna have to get used to the difficulties being called Basic, Difficult, and Expert. Oh, well, some things have to change.

Well they're still the same color as Standard/Heavy and the rest... so it's not like it's that different.

No, not really that different, but for me, I have to get used to it, jumping between DDR, Pump, and ITG like crazy. It was like this when we had 4th Mix at our arcade and I was already playing the PS2 games at home, getting the difficulty names mixed up (This was around 3 years ago, mind you).

I hate how around the first $10 I was unaware on how to get to the all music mode,

no wonder why I couldnt find Holic on the expert mode.....

All right, time for a revival update.

While I never gave my opinion on SuperNOVA yet, I'm gonna get to it in a sec. FIRST, I have an update for the US PS2 release coming out on 9/27.

It's got True Love. I'm happy. It's got Heaven Is A Place On Earth (German Election Mix). I'm happy. It's got songs I hate beyond belief like Since U Been Gone, VKTRS, and artists I hate, like Franz Ferdinand. Once I play those songs in Stellar Mode, I'll never have to play them again, and that's all I've got to say about that.

Okay, now for my SN AC review.

First, the song selection: SO HAPPY BUTTERFLY, COWGIRL, AND SPEED OVER BEETHOVEN ARE GONE!!! NOOBISTS IN HOUMA WILL SUFFER!! Thank you, Jesus!! Okay, that's outta the system.

The songs in Yellow (a.k.a., licenses) are not the best songs I've heard. In fact, I don't really care for any of them. The Speed Mix for DRM woulda sufficed instead of the original.

The Purples: very sweet add-ons to DDR. I don't recall hearing any of these anywhere before, but I gotta say they caught my attention really fast, including Flowers and True Love. Good job with these, Konami.

The Greens: Sounds like all of these were cross-overs from BM IIDX, and there's nothing wrong with that at all, especially since a good bit of them rock, such as AA, DRIVIN' (love that song), Nijiiro, and Red Zone. The others are awesome, too, but I forgot them all already.

The Aquas: All of which are CS cross-overs. You can't get any better than this, I'm afraid. The only thing that bugged me was that songs from Extreme 2 that were also on Strike, such as Polovtsian, Passion of Love, and Seduction, were considered Strike cross-overs, and not Extreme 2 cross-overs. I mean, come on. We exposed the songs first on our home consoles.

Now the rest.

Interface/Engine/whatever: I love what they've done to it. The techno-like space-like engine is a sweet add-on. It's so crisp and beautiful.

Gameplay: Well, it's DDR. It's not Pump it Up, it's not ITG (Especially not ITG), it's plain, old, better-than-everything-else DDR. Simple, easy, and FUN!!

Oh, and only a couple songs were off-sync, but they weren't songs I'm real big on, except Polovtsian Dance and Chorus. That was the only song I noticed sync-lag that pissed me off.

The Cabinet: Well, it's nothing really new. You have your standard coin/speaker cabinet, your standard monitor, the Marquee at the top with the 4 lights on each side. However, the light-color change is cool.

I guess that's pretty much it. My rating: 10/10. Sure, the only problem was a little off-syncing and almost all the licenses sucking ass, but there were plenty more songs to play, and one or two good songs with bad syncing won't stop me from having fun.

Now that we've had the game for a month and I've spent sometime with it I guess I'll write a full review...

Interface :

I still dislike the lack of many sorting options and having to choose all music... especially when it's all the way past the oni-course selection... Also I don't like the leveling system... you can't tell me Xepher or Sakura is in the same class as Paranoia Survivor Max... the levels need to go higher than 10 to give it more accuracy.
6/10

Steps :

~Concerning new content only~
Most of the step charts seem kind of dull or lacking but there are some that stand out... there are no choregraphed step charts so once again Konami gives freestyle the shaft :eyebrow:
5/10

Graphics :

Really depends on what song you play... I like the IIDX cross over videos and songs with animations or the music video to go to them... however not having the music video for older songs like True (which had it in PS2 Max) is unforgivable!!... The dancers just make me not want to look at the screen at all... they're rather annoying... and so is the fact that the setting is always on a cube or hexagon in a room full of those lights and polygons that spin around in the games menus... ugh
6/10

Music :

~Licensced~ 2/10
Most of these are crappy but hey... Surrender your love by Javine sounds nice and isn't one of those songs with a bad step chart.

~Konami Originals~ 7/10
Nothing out of the ordinary here... which is a good thing for some but a bad thing for me... I look for variety in music in my music games.

~Cross Overs~ 8/10
The songs from Pop'n Music, IIDX, GF&DM are all great... problem is some of them were poorly edited which brings this down to an 8 instead of a 10

Hardware :

What's basically here is a PS2 with a hard drive and some security features to prevent bootlegging. The pads feel just like the older DDR machines... which is a good thing to some and a bad thing to others... those others being anyone who has played on an Andamiro PIU SX, GX or AM-ITG2 cab. In otherwords the pad design has not been changed for DDR in anyway... of course if they did some people would be bitching about how responsive it is and how easy it is to get an AA as a result (like some did when ITG2 came around)
8/10

Sound :

The sound effects are purely annoying as hell... especially if the volume is loud... I mean like almost person scratching a board with finger nails bad...
1/10

Gameplay :

Gameplay is sometimes hindered by randomly loaded off sync step charts... guess this wasn't an apparent problem until they made the timing window tight as hell... which I don't like either. Also the game offers nothing outside of the standard gameplay modes... the battle mode is just a revived magic dance from Disney mix... you cannot control when you unleash an attack so it's about as relevant as having random mods on... This could have use the variety of play styles DDR Ultramix 2 introduced... the machine could have also used a 51" DLP monitor and 4 pads instead of two...
5/10


Overall :

This game wasn't complete when it got out the doors... but it's not a complete glitch tastic piece of crap either

7/10

(Will update when update disc is out and installed)

And this, my friends, is what the US SuperNOVA case image will look like.

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images...7658_front.jpg

Of course, this is the bundle picture, but it's damn near close enough.

Where's the darkness, Konami? Where is my dark background? SuperNOVA is supposed to be a dark, space-like, futuristic game. Why a white background?

Oh, and I checked the Gateway, and apparently SuperNOVA has a release date in Japan, somewhere, sometime, but I can't tell if it's posted or not, because it's all in Japanese.

Sorry for the double, but there's been an update.

The DDR SuperNOVA Limited Edition Music Sampler has been released, or, it's on its way to game stores right now, I don't know. All I know is, the songlist looks pretty damn decent.

Konami, where the fuck is RED ZONE??? I WANT RED ZONE!!!

Anyway, glue your eyes to this while I check on Japan's release date for SuperNOVA on PS2.... CRAP!!! Not until sometime next year!!!

ONE MORE THING!!! Update discs for DDR SuperNOVA AC have been shipped to arcades with SuperNOVA machines. Sync problems should be completely rectified. I wonder what song they mentioned adding to the disc....

It's called Facination ~Eternal Love Mix~... Just another remix of Facination Maxx. That's the new song...

A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07nYydU5ICg

Reminds me of Disconnected.

And I was looking at the UM4 list, I noticed DM Ashura's song... Anyone know what contest winner song is in this one?

so now the trend is to put stops everywhere (referring to the new song's stepchart). great.... NOT

Yeah, that chart does look kinda dull. I think Konami's getting scared of ITG, so they're making harder 10's, more retarded 10's.

I just got done listening to the sampler - it's pretty solid, just need to play the actual game now. Kinda torn though, I jsut played Guitar Hero for the first time at Wal-Mart, now I want that too. I now understand why people will pay 80 bucks for it...

Our machine gets the update patch installed tomorrow... I'm going to check out the update patch tomorrow.

I'm just waiting on my arcade to get the new SuperNOVA machine... Personally, I can't wait, but it better have the update disc when they get it.

I don't wanna say "don't count on it", but if the machine is being shipped straight from wherever the hell the HQ is, then chances are, you'll have the update disc.

Only 5 days left until the PS2 release. God, I'm getting edgyyyyy.

Personally, I am a HUGE fan of stops 'cause they feel awesome AND go with the music. I actually think that every time the music stops they should throw a stop into the step chart because then it would really follow the music like it should be followed. Seriously, it just feels awkward watching stuff fly by when there's no music (Can't Stop Falling In Love... one of the older mixes... prime example). Oh, and that new mix of Fascination is amazing... I can't wait to try it out!

Yay! I finally got the game. It's pretty damn good. Nice selection also.

The Extra Stages are as follows:

Easy - MAX 300 (Super-Max-Me-Mix)
Medium - Healing D-Vision
Hard - Facsination Maxx
All Music - Facsination ~eternal love mix~

At least we have the new one in here. HELL of alot easier than the original, but I still haven't passed it yet. Chaos is in this version also...

That stellar mode is pretty cool, there's alot of tasks you have to do... Some easy, some hard. Like specifically getting a song on Roulette mode and passing it. What are the odds of that happenening? It's like getting MAX 300 in DDRMAX.

Yeah, Stellar Master Mode is giving me a tough time. For some reason, some of the trials never activate when I go play a song. Other than that at this point in time, the game is insane.

You think they put enough 10's in this one?

Um...

Xepher (Oni)
Healing D-Vision
MAX 300 (Super-Max-Me-Mix)
Fascination Maxx
Fascination ~eternal love mix~

Yeah... Seems like enough. I'm gonna have hell with this game.

And Sim, some challenges only work if you play them on the diffuculties that are set to them. And some won't allow mod changes... Or at least I think so.

I haven't finished Popcorn... I'm halfway through Glow, and i'm already done with Urugasi. I have the next three stellar joints, but didn't have enough time to work on them.

This is probably one of the best home versions they've release in a while.

And who agrees with me that Dance, Dance has good heavy steps?

I will answer that when they're done with the stupid multilanguage booklet for Canadian market -_-

I found out about the option restriction on some missions sometime last night after my post.

The Dance, Dance steps are pretty good, I'll give them that. This song, and a few other licenses are not too bad, but then you've got the crappy ones, but oh, well.

I'm on the 7th Planet right now. If I'm not mistaken, there should be 10 planets, the last being some kinda BOSS Planet or something.

Oh, and why in God's name do they want you to end a song with a score "ENDING" in 70?? There's like a 1-in-infinite chance of that happening.

I read something on Gamespot that you should at least have 70% Perfects and 30% Greats to possibly land in 70...

Meaning, you have to intentionally suck.

Yeah that 70 thing is kinda pissing me off...and my luck with the whole get 2 female dancers in a row...IS JUST NOT HAPPENING FOR ME AT ALL...been playing for about 1 day now and i'm 10)% done with i think my 4th planet so far...I love the game honestly...

and Dance, Dance does have awesome steps