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Well, it was officially announced today that DDR will be coming to the Wii.

Because I'm feeling too lazy to retype it all, you can read more here.

can you attach the wiimote to your foot to play?

Only if you're standing on your hands to hit the arrows.

"Entirely new soundtrack"?

uh oh

The game will be using the Gamecube interface so anybody who has pads that support that or a PStwo/GC adapter will be able to play with no problems.

However there are two issues I have from what I've seen of the game.

1. They are trying to bring back the concept of using hands in the game again like they tried in Non-Extreme US with the eyetoy camera. My suggestion to Konami of America, stop being a bunch of retards and doing this stupid shit!
2. Brand New Soundtrack: Did they figure out that this doesn't work when they tried DDR Mario Mix? Why in the hell won't Konami of Japan step in and bitchslap KoA over this decision?

Amp Divorax wrote:2. Brand New Soundtrack: Did they figure out that this doesn't work when they tried DDR Mario Mix? Why in the hell won't Konami of Japan step in and bitchslap KoA over this decision?

Weren't we just raving over how awesome the music on DDRMAX AC was, albeit a somewhat small list thereof?

Amp Divorax wrote:2. Brand New Soundtrack: Did they figure out that this doesn't work when they tried DDR Mario Mix? Why in the hell won't Konami of Japan step in and bitchslap KoA over this decision?

Mario Mix was released in Japan also. And in that particular case, it was probably more of a Nintendo decision than KoJ or KoA. Besides, I actually really like Mario Mix.

Ho wrote:

Amp Divorax wrote:2. Brand New Soundtrack: Did they figure out that this doesn't work when they tried DDR Mario Mix? Why in the hell won't Konami of Japan step in and bitchslap KoA over this decision?

Mario Mix was released in Japan also. And in that particular case, it was probably more of a Nintendo decision than KoJ or KoA. Besides, I actually really like Mario Mix.

As long as its harder than mario mix...

Pheonixguy wrote:

Ho wrote:

Amp Divorax wrote:2. Brand New Soundtrack: Did they figure out that this doesn't work when they tried DDR Mario Mix? Why in the hell won't Konami of Japan step in and bitchslap KoA over this decision?

Mario Mix was released in Japan also. And in that particular case, it was probably more of a Nintendo decision than KoJ or KoA. Besides, I actually really like Mario Mix.

As long as its harder than mario mix...

My affinity for Mario Mix was not related to its challenge. It derived its fun factor from a very different place for me. I found it quite entertaining for its ability to make me smile and laugh.

I thought they did a great job of blending the two franchises. It had all the basic elements of DDR with many fun tidbits that sparked fond memories of my past experiences with Mario. And this is coming from someone who has never owned a Nintendo console before the Wii! (Though I did have an original Game Boy and currently own a DS Lite.)

Ho wrote:

Pheonixguy wrote:

Ho wrote: Mario Mix was released in Japan also. And in that particular case, it was probably more of a Nintendo decision than KoJ or KoA. Besides, I actually really like Mario Mix.

As long as its harder than mario mix...

My affinity for Mario Mix was not related to its challenge. It derived its fun factor from a very different place for me. I found it quite entertaining for its ability to make me smile and laugh.

I thought they did a great job of blending the two franchises. It had all the basic elements of DDR with many fun tidbits that sparked fond memories of my past experiences with Mario. And this is coming from someone who has never owned a Nintendo console before the Wii! (Though I did have an original Game Boy and currently own a DS Lite.)

I looked on YouTube, and the 'hardest song' looks like its not even entertaining... lol i guess they werent aiming for people who are already ddr fans though

Just as long as this isnt the same since i plan on getting a wii

I don't get any indication that Hottest Party is targeted to be a Nintendo and/or Mario tie-in game. It looks to be more like Ultramix on the Xbox. That's not to say that it will be anything like Ultramix, only that it is sort of a "parallel" to the mainline DDR series and therefore has some unique and different characteristics not found in the 1st-Extreme+SuperNOVA track.

Konami's official page for the game is now up.

http://www.konami.com/Konami/ctl3810/cp ... test_party

I should also mention that this has screenshots of the game up. Unfortunately, they are using the new BG Dancer system they introduced in Supernova. 4 player gameplay has been confirmed, but the pics are 4:3 so I have to wonder if this game will support the 16:9 and 480p capabilities of the Wii. (Universe was widescreen so I see no excuses on this one.)

In the first screenshot, why is the rightmost arrow coming in UNDER the arrow outline? In the other ones it's normal.

From what I've seen of the pics, I have reason to believe that they may be fabricated and just representations of what they are doing on the Wii. This isn't the first time Konami has done this with a bemani game as I remember some of the BMUS screenshots being off.

Bumped and with good reason.

http://www.konami.jp/bemani/ddr/na/gs/hp/ has a trailer for the game on it which shows how gameplay will work. Also, as shown in the trailer, this game will use a different announcer. (Personally speaking, he doesn't sound too good so if I do end up with this game I'm turning the announcer off immediately.) There will be only 50 songs, with 25 Konami Originals and the following licenses are confirmed:

Disco Inferno - ??? (artist unknown; as made famous by The Trammps)
Temperature - Sean Paul (You gotta be fucking kidding me! Why is this douchebag back in DDR?)
Unappreciated - as made by Cherish

I hope the Japanese version of Hottest Party has a better songlist.

Oh, something that's not shown in the video, this release will have mines! Unless I can turn that gay shit off this release has completely jumped the shark!