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The characters radiate personality thanks to their high-res rendered appearances and their super-smooth motion-captured dance moves. That's not to say the graphics aren't mind blowing. Sure, It's great to watch your character pull off moves that would make Janet Jackson jealous, but it's the memorable music that keeps you coming back. Of course, the music is integral and really sets up Groove to conquer. Boogie Knightsīust-A-Groove's easy controls make slipping into the game and grooving a snap.
The free-roaming camera is the best indicator of how well you're doing: It focuses on the best dancer, sometimes leaving the other character off the screen completely.
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When you string together a series of steps, you create combos that boost your rating. The control consists of moving the directional pad to match the onscreen arrows, hitting the appropriate button on the all-important fourth beat of the measure. By keeping the beat, you bust some serious moves lose the beat, though, and you're toast. Disco Infernoīust-A-Grooves premise is a series of dance-offs that lead you to increasingly intense opponents. This year, Bust-A-Groove takes the genre to the next level with a high-energy dance game that blows away PaRappa. Last year, PaRappa the Rapper introduced challenging non-violent non-puzzle gameplay to the PlayStation. With 10 regular characters and four hidden ones, each with its own endings, Bust A Groove will pack in plenty of playing time. This preservation is understandable since much of the appeal of PaRappa were the offbeat songs that had a touch of pop/rap to them. There is actually only four or five songs that had Japanese lyrics (all raps were done in English) so the change is fairly minimal. version features all the same music with lyrics redone in English.
The music is perhaps the biggest draw with new tunes provided by Avex Trax which is currently the hottest record label in Japan. The main thing to avoid are routines that end prematurely resulting in only two to three combo moves instead of a five combo or word ratings like "Chillin'!" To accomplish these, you'll need to work out a routine that starts small and continues on to more complicated button combos. There are tons of possible combinations, but only a few will yield impressive dance displays. In this way it's almost like a fighting game because each character has set combinations that can be linked together. In fact, you can turn off the onscreen button indicators if you like. The emphasis is on timing the buttons to the rhythm (every fourth beat) instead of following preset button commands. Taken on its own, Bust A Groove features excellent character designs coupled with exciting motion-captured dance moves. However, it is true that it wasn't until PaRappa that Groove finally took a more similar approach to dance simulation. In development for more than three years, the dance rhythm game was originally set to start the genre itself. It would be easy to classify Bust A Groove as a gimmicky game that wants to ride the coattails of PaRappa the Rapper, but that isn't quite true. The only thing I recommend is that you make sure you like the songs because you'll be hearing them a lot. It's pretty cool when you have two good players going at it without the on-screen buttons, because you're not sure what kind of move one guy (or gal) will bust out against the other. Each character has a set routine that has its own separate branches and possible combo combinations which require some timing and a good memory. Advanced players have the option of playing without the buttons displayed on the screen which is really the way to go. Each character has an ending and there are several hidden characters to unlock. The nice thing about Bust A Groove is that it has lots of replay value both as a one-player game and a two-player game. Fortunately, the majority of the music was already in English or had no words at all, so the tunes are still infectious. The words just don't seem to fit the music too well. One of the things I have to say right off the bat is that the translation of Japanese lyrics into English is pretty sad. Bust A Groove has excellent dancing animation and some great music. Lucky for us it happens to be a good one. It was only a matter of time before we saw another title that capitalized off of the rhythm genre PaRappa pioneered.
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