But that's not relevant to the issue at hand! The issue at hand being...video game thoughts.

I recently bought DDR Supernova 2, because I'd been playing Extreme 2 for years, and wanted something new. (I didn't get Supernova; I heard it wasn't that great.) I'm still trying to unlock all of the songs, which I may or may not manage, but thoughts so far:
- The background graphics are not nearly as flashy and annoying as in some earlier DDR games. A nice improvement. In fact, they're a little boring.
- However, I can't figure out how to turn off the crowd cheering. I scoured the options menus and turned off Annoying Announcer Dude, Booing, Annoying Dancer Dude, and Rainbow Brite Arrow Color...but I can't seem to turn off the crowd. D:
- Songs are okay as far as I can tell. Nothing that's really grabbing me or becoming a fast favorite; just a pretty half-and-half mix of snappy Japanese pop songs and songs that I suppose are popular in America but I could really care less about. Actually, my main complaint is that a lot of the songs are too slow. Maybe it's just because I haven't unlocked the harder ones yet, but Extreme 2's songs seemed to be a lot more challenging than Supernova 2's.
- They changed around some things: Light, Standard and Heavy songs have now become "Basic," "Difficult" and "Expert." Which is kind of funny, considering the songs that used to be 'standard' and are now 'difficult' are even less difficult than standard songs on earlier versions. :/ Again, maybe I just need to play harder songs on harder settings or something.
- They've also made the "marvelous" rating a part of normal dance modes. I...am liking this less than I thought. Because of this extra rating, they now score songs differently, to the point where even getting a full combo doesn't net you an "AA" grade...because if you get to many "Greats", it bumps your score down as opposed to getting more "Perfects" and "Marvelous...es". So all these songs that I would've gotten AA grades on no problem are now just A grades, because I still tend to get a lot of "Greats" when playing. Urk. :/
- The new Dance Master Mode (i.e. do this stupid mission crap in order to unlock everything in this game, including all the good songs) is even more of a pain in the butt than it was in Extreme 2. D: I guess in order to make up for the fact that the steps really aren't that difficult, almost every mission requires doing a song with an unheard of number of modifications, such as having the arrows going backwards and each at different speeds while you balance an egg on a spoon and sing "I am the very model of a modern major general" in Portugese. (And this is barely an exaggeration!) The missions are ridiculous.
- And I suppose in order to counter the fact that many of the missions are full of stupid crap that has very little to do with actually keeping the beat with a song, there's this other different feature than I can only describe as GUMMI SHIPS FOR DDR. It's like...you earn these little robot-machine parts than you assemble into an assistant, and the assistant does things like up your max combo, take out some arrows, make the dance meter drop slower, etc. It's kind of weird, but hey, it helped me pass one of the boss songs.
- ....LOL, BOSS SONGS. I'm so not kidding.


...And yeah, that's my thoughts on Supernova 2. XD We finish off this somewhat pointless entry with a meme, ganked from yamikonumber7:

1. Comment with any subject that you would like me to rant on, with possible probable swearing involved. Any subject - I don't even have to agree with it.

2. Watch my journal for your rant. (Unless I just can't muster up a rant for your subject)

3. Post this in your own journal, so that you may rant for others. The end.

This Should be an interesting one. Opinions will be splattered across the internets! Flisters will be shocked! :OO

Drawing: Gonna go work on LG pages now, as well as something else.

Writing: Sad parts of LG script.