If anything, MC Groovz will only make you a worse Bemani (Dancing Game) player.
User Rating: 1.9 | MC Groovz Dance Craze GC
Why review MC Groovz Dance Craze now? When no one in their right mind would buy it? Mario DDR is hitting shelves soon and in case cubers think they should pick up this game along with with Mario DDR, they are wrong. Dead wrong. MC Groovz is not a DDR clone. MC Groovz is unlike any dancing game you'll ever play... There's no techno... No sync with the song and steps... the up and down arrows are reversed from 99% of the other dancing games... and the songs are atrocious... - - - - - Mini Review - - - - - Put simply, you won't like MC Groovz Dance Craze and if you play it for a considerable amount of time, the fact that the up and down arrows are reversed will haunt you for the rest of your dancing game career. If you ever decide to spring for a real dancing game, don't be surprised if you mess up the arrows occasionally. In regard to how the game is on its own... its still very poor. The steps have almost nothing to do with the songs and seem very random. A song might only have 10-20 repeating steps. The songs are much too long, there's no variety, and the game is very, very easy. Theres too many things wrong with this game to list... Just skip it and get a real Bemani game. - - - - - Gameplay 2/10 - - - - - The whole idea of Dance Dance Revolution is to dance to some slower songs at first and build your way up to frantic techno that makes your mind explode. The idea behind MC Groovz seems to be dance slowly to old music. I don't know where to start. I guess I should say that there isn't really a point to MC Groovz. You can only play single songs and try to best your high score. Theres no "stages" or anything. The Music... There are 29 songs on MC Groovz. Most of them are 4+ minutes long, some as long as 7. Throughout this miserable time in your life, you'll be repeating the same arrows, over... and over... and.... over..... Regardless of how the music changes. The arrows are almost randomly placed and to top it off, they continue after the song ends sometimes. The arrows are spaced throughout the entire screen (When you're playing it like normal DDR, i'll explain in the next paragraph). Meaning instead of looking at 1/3 of the screen like you would playing normal DDR, you're looking at about 3/4 of it. This normally could pose an issue but... this game is extraordinarily easy. Even on the highest difficulty levels you can destroy any song without breaking a sweat, thanks to slow songs, repeating arrows, and a lack of any need for "fancy footwork." Do you get a nice score screen at the end of each song giving you a grade, and statistics of how you "danced?" Of course not. You get a number... thats it. Bad Songs, Bad Tempo, Bad Steps, Bad Length, Bad Score System, Horribly Easy Difficulty... why did this game even get a 2 instead of a 1? Whenever theres a jump, the arrows are a different color. This is mildly helpful. Also the circular arrow mode is kind of original (unlike everything else in the game) even though its horrible. There is a way of playing MC Groovz where the arrows are arranged in a circle and the steps kind of "float up to you." You've played 4-arrow DDR, you've played solo mode (6 arrows), but this has 8 arrows. Its very hard to keep track of 8 arrows. You can't really tell when to step because the arrows are getting bigger and you have to know just the right size they should be when you step on them. Unlike the 4-arrow (Scroll-Mode) part of the game, the circular mode is impossibly hard unless you have absolutely uncanny judegement of when to step on the arrow. Its more frustrating than fun, like most parts about the game, but it's mildly original and it's an attempt at being infintismally different. I should mention that in the circle mode, the Z-button (located right above the up-left arrow) is very easy to accidentally press. If you hold it for 3-seconds you reset the song. Oops. - - - - - Graphics 3/10 - - - - - Every song has the same background. Its a purplish backround with almost nothing going on. There is a silhouette of a girl dancing. Thats it. Nothing fancy at all. Every single song is the same. You'll be very sick of the color purple after playing this a while... What else can I say. I prefer DDR's arrows to MC Groovz if you wan't my personal opinion. The menu's are rather bland, very bland compared to DDR. The logo isn't very exciting either... - - - - - Sound 2/10 - - - - - I'm sure someone who played this game loves the soundtrack. I'm telling you it's NOT for a dancing game. What we need is some furious techno songs. I don't want to talk to my friends about their latest "I'm Walking on Sunshine" scores. The songs are much to slow to dance to. And while it's not really the fault of the music, the steps don't always relate to the songs too well. - - - - - Value 2/10 - - - - - Theres nothing here. Only 29 songs, boring multiplayer, boring single player for that matter, songs you don't like, steps that aren't enjoyable, repetitive gameplay, nothing really redeems this game from sitting at the bottom of the gaming abyss. I hope this game doesn't last as long for you as it did for me (Maybe 4 days). - - - - - Other Notes - - - - - Difficulty: Laughably easy. Your grandma could play this game and AA... I mean get high scores on every song Dance Pad: The Mad Catz pad that comes with this game is pretty bad. It doesn't matter consdiering you won't pick this game up since you know how bad it is and you won't really be furiously stomping on it like you would in other rhythm games. Don't get this game. Please. Just get Mario DDR if you have a cube. And for god's sake get real DDR games if you have Xbox or PS2. Stay away from this abysmal game.
