DDR Song Contest Winners

Snapps50 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Dec 2004

So DM, I guess I didn't need to talk to Naoki about you after all.
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act deft · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

Go, DM Ashura, GO!

Seriously, congrats to the winners.

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Apu · Trick Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Plant City, FL

Liked them all, can't wait to see wht the steps will be like.
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ColorOfSakura · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject:

Am I the only one who sat there and thought about how awesome "Go!" would be in IIDX...?
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Synaesthesia · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject:

When I hear GO! I hear Sakura+Setsugekka for the first half, and then like a mix of Sandstorm and Maxx Attaxx.
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Catastrophe · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Location: Worcester, MA

I'd actually say that any of these songs could be Beatmania songs. Race Against Time would be an 11 on another. (On the arcade scale out of a possible 12. On Beatmania USA that's a 9.) I like all 4 of these songs quite a bit! I can't pick a favorite yet. Maybe in a week.

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wolf2ktd (DDRaHolic) · Trick Member Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Location: Baton Rouge, LA

Race Against Time sounds too much like a midi-composed song that would be on an In the Groove game, Grandolin struck me in the same way, it sounds more fitted to be a song for an epic RPG, or a Twin Amadeus song, whichever you'd prefer.
Go is very exciting, and I like the spiritual style the song has, though comparisons to Sakura and Setsugekka will undoubtably be made. There's a Rhythm; now there's a song. I'm sure you could put sixteenth note runs in for a fun 10 or 11 footer ITG-style chart, but that isn't what Konami does. They put eighth note spurt 7 footer steps to songs like this, and everyone wants to freestyle it.
But when you think about it, that's what DDR is all about. Playing the game however you want. That would be interesting, to see that song get an 10 footer Maniac chart, and also a very freestyleable Basic chart. A great song should be able to be played by all styles of players, and that is the only one of the bunch that seemed to be truly dance-able and freestyleable (though there could be some interesting ethnic-style freestyles to Go, like I've seen people do to Sakura or Solitary from Pump It Up).
So, that one gets my pick.
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Be_Without_You · Trick Member Joined: 23 Feb 2006

go rock and roll

Ryu_Hirakashi · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

My pick of the 4 had to go Grandolin. That song really stuck to me because I love music that has an soft ambience to it. An atmosphere that evelopes your mind and body. Takes you to some deep dark place and sooths your soul.

I'll be listening to it a lot.

ColorOfSakura · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

You honestly need to listen to more than a few seconds of a song to like it.

If you only listened to a few seconds, you might not like it. Remember, just like in DDR, the small snippets you hear may actually be the worst part of the song.
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Ryu_Hirakashi · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject:

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Hero_of_dance · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

just what is GO! (if you say it a song you die)
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Tyrgannus · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject:

Pakwan Kenobi · Maniac Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002

Congratulations to the winners. I also think it's awesome that Konami is letting these songs appear in future versions of DDR while letting the original composers retain 100% of the rights to their respective songs.

Without telling my girlfriend the context concerning these four songs, I let her listen to the four songs.

She said that GO! and Grandolin were DDR-sounding songs that would only be popular because they'll have 9-foot or 10-foot charts.

The third song was weird.

Her favorite is the last one.

I agree with her assessments on Grandolin, GO!, and There's a Rhythm. Race Against Time sounds interesting, but I think that the only one I could convince newcomers to the series to play would be the R&B song, because it's the only one that's danceable.
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Ryu_Hirakashi · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject:

No R & B should ever be on DDR.

But everything else should be 10s. We most certainly need more of thsoe. And for once they aren't 37389273758576^2 bpm.

It would make a lot of us happy.

Edit: I'd rather see these songs on ITG, because they seem to fit in Roxxor's music a lot better. They'd treat these songs right as far as the note charts are concerned.

Hirakashi Ryu
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P-Chan · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

IÂ´m oficially hooked with ThereÂ´s a rythm...

definetely the first songs are very DDR-like... much like, the same but new... which is not a bad thing at all

and the Race Against Time theme was pretty much like... huh... fits in, but itÂ´s quite different

congrats to the winners... great talent on all of them
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