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DJ MAX PORTABLE (Korean Version) PSP

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DJ MAX PORTABLE (Korean Version)

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Product Title: DJ MAX PORTABLE (Korean Version) DJ MAX PORTABLE (韓國版) DJ MAX PORTABLE (韩国版) DJ MAX PORTABLE (韓国版) DJ MAX PORTABLE (Korean Version)
Manufacturer Name(s): Pentavision
Release Date: 2006-02-08
Language: English, Korean
Disc Format(s): PSP
Other Information: Korean Version
Package Weight: 150 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004117388

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DJing and Bemani fans listen up!

From the Korean game maker Pentavision comes a special PSP™ version of the web-based and mobile music mixing game DJ Max. The game resembles Konami's popular beatmania series: You take the position as DJ and are challenged to hit the correct button(s) on your PSP™ handheld at the right time to complete the song.

As expected from a music game, most parts are completely in English and make DJ Max easy to understand and to pick up for persons without any Korean knowledge. With more than 50 tracks to choose from (including K-Pop, Techno, Breakbeat, Hip Hop, Rock and other popular genres), every music game fan will find a tune of his taste. Lyrics of all songs are included in the game's manual as bonus.

Prior song selection, you will have several options available, such as speed & fader adjustment, mirror mode selection and more. After completion of a song, you will receive a summary of your performance, including a combo & break counter, rating and score.

Your achievements are saved into a Ranking Chart. Additionally, you can unlock new tracks and items in the Gallery Mode.

Depending on the difficulty level, DJ Max can be played in either 4 button (left, up, triangle, circle) or 6 button mode (left, up, right, square, triangle, circle). You can further manually increase the speed with the L/R buttons.

DJ Max contains a number of game modes and extras as listed up below. Be warned that rookies might have their difficulties in the beginning; DJ Max's difficulty level is adjusted to experienced gamers.

Portable Game Mode



Rookie DJing: Easy difficulty 4 button mode. 10 tracks are selectable from the start.

Pro DJing: Normal difficulty 6 button mode. 11 tracks are selectable from the start.

Club DJing: Expert difficulty 4/6 button mode. Select a music theme and unlock new genres.

Unlimited Mixing Stage: Choose from 40 tracks from the start in either 4 or 6 button mode.

Gallery: Shows your disc collection and a number of images and videos once you have completed parts of the game.

Ranking Chart: Your high scores are saved here.

Options: Adjust settings such as Gear Display (left/center/right), Sound (speaker/earphone), Control Settings & Save Settings
Additional Information may be provided by the manufacturer, supplier, or a third party, and may be in its original language

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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10 (1)

kndy
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April 5, 2006
2 people found this review helpful

 A rhythm based music game that will bring new life Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
Konami’s “Beatmania” music-based rhythm games have been very popular in Japan and in the United States “Dance Dance Revolution” has been a popular title and for some, each title getting better and better in the arcades and for the PS2. But those who craved for more challenging gameplay and something different found that from South Korea especially from Amuseworld’s “EZ2DJ”.

In the US, many years after the first release of Beatmania, it’s coming stateside to the PS2 but at the same time in Japan, Beatmania V with Guitar Freaks V is getting a release in Japan but what about the PSP? Nothing from Konami?

Well, if you are a fan of music rhythm games, PSP owners…DJ MAX PORTABLE is available and all I can say is…AWESOME!

First, where most imports are from Japan, DJ MAX PORTABLE is from South Korea, developed by Pentavision.

Upon starting the game, you are treated by an awesome animated intro showing you a glimpse of the game. If you are an anime fan or just dig Asian inspired animation, you are going to have a smile on your face immediately with the combination of music and animation.

When beginning the game you are greeted with the following selections in the menu:

* PORTABLE (The Main Selections of the game: ROOKIE DJING – Easy Mode-4 buttons, PRO DJING – Normal Mode-6 buttons, MASTER DJING – HARD MODE – 8 buttons, CLUB DJING – EXPERT MODE – Repertory Play, UNLIMITED MIXING STATE – FREESTYLE, GALLERY – artwork earned, RANKING CHART – Your scores, OPTION)
* OST – Listen to the Original Soundtrack of the many songs in the game
* M/V CLIPS – Watch the music videos of the tracks that are opened and ones you have earned.

GAMEPLAY:
Have you ever seen or played DDR or Beatmania? Similar situation in DJ MAX PORTABLE. Using easy mode as an example, starting your game you will start out with 14 songs to choose from. Even though its 4 buttons, some are easy and some are challenging. In the bottom you will see a bar and four segments underneath. Left arrow, Up arrow, triangle and circle. When you see the bars following and landing towards the bar, you need to press the corresponding buttons. When press correctly, you are in beat and it goes right along with the music. Mess up and you can tell by the ugly sound you made but most of all, mess up a few times and the game is unforgiving and you have to start over again.

When you are playing, the screen is divided into two sections. 35% of the screen for what you are going to be focused on and the other 65% on the music video.

After beating that song, you open up a more challenging version of the song (there are 10 difficulties you can open up) and also you add more songs to the lineup. Also, you can open up more skins and instead of bars, you can get different types of objects or characters that can replace the regular bars and there are a lot of these you can open.

Upon beating the song, you are scored ala MAX, BREAK and COMBO and you get a letter grade.

You can also adjust the speed of the song by 0.5-x5 but if you make it too slow, the bars come down faster.

Now here is what I find so special about DJ MAX, you hear about the DS “Electroplankton” being the artistic game/non-game but for the PSP, each music video was done by different artists, animators thus each music video that you see is designed differently. Some music videos resemble cutesy anime to dark anime, some look like it’s created in Flash or ala South Park style and for the most part, there are over 50 music videos. But that’s not it…

Go to CLUB SELECT mode and you have a club section featuring 18 clubs with their own styles of music offering more songs w/ videos.

In other words…this game is jam packed and will challenge you and keep you busy.

GRAPHICS:

While your eyes will be fixated on your section with falling blocks and trying to hit the right notes, part of you just wants to watch the artistic music videos that play. Fortunately, you can watch these in the M/V section. As for art, the art is awesome. If you bought a video game art book such as SNK or CAPCOM, you get really cool art that you can check out.

SOUND:

Now many people may be wondering if all the songs are K-POP music and the answer is that there is K-POP and also JPOP but there is other music. From techno, pop, rap, hard rock, r&b, slow jams, fusion, etc. Some with vocals, some without. A good balance. There is so much music crammed into the UMD, you’ll dig it!

USER-FRIENDLINESS TO NON-KOREAN READERS/SPEAKERS:

Good news is that it’s very user friendly. The only Korean you’ll get pretty much is the opening screen when it asks you if you want auto-save to be on. Like most imports, just remember that in the US, we typically use X button to select things. Imports is usually the circle button. First block is yes and second block is no.

So, very user-friendly!

DJ MAX PORTABLE has given some life to my PSP. I enjoy rhythm based music games but I also am into art and the fact that this game features animated music videos created for the game by different artists as well as art created by different artists is awesome. It’s a game that will attract both guys and girls and with a good balance of music and art/music videos, it’s simple awesome.

But does it deserve a perfect ranking?

The game deserves a high rating but remember…many people who went to the Korean music-based rhythm games did so because they want more difficulty and more challenge (As if the harder difficulty for DDR or Beatmania wasn’t hard enough). This game even though in 4-button and level 1 easy mode is challenging. Some songs, you can fly through but some…what seems easy at first…near the end of the so
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