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Boogie DS video reveals a much more traditional rhythm game

On the Wii, Boogie was half karaoke game, half waggle-dance game. Obviously the DS version doesn't allow you to wave your arms around to dance, which means that the game had to be adapted for the handheld format.

Luckily for us, it's been adapted into what looks like a much more familiar rhythm game. For each motion or instrument (headbanging, tambourine, etc.) you touch the screen in a different manner, but always in response to onscreen cues, and always in a location indicated by an icon. The different icons are just window dressing, basically, since you're now tapping the screen to the rhythm. It's less whatever-you-want-to-call-Boogie and a little more Ouendan. This short video shows some of the motions involved in playing Boogie on the go, accompanied by a Commodores cover.

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Parker1

9-05-2007 @ 7:29PM

Parker said...

Hmmm... a little more Ouendan is never a bad thing. And the game looks pretty enough. But I'm going to call it right now -- the gameplay looks atrocious.

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Kefka2

9-06-2007 @ 9:30PM

Kefka said...

Yeah, the gameplay does look kinda simple so far... Hopefully the video was just there to demonstrate the basic mechanics, otherwise it's looking like a gimmick game...

The other gripe I've got with it is that it tries to have animations keeping time with individual note-hits... This doesn't work. for the animation to be on time, it must reach its apex/key point at the same time as you hit the note - and since obviously the game doesn't know if you WILL hit the note, it can't start the animation beforehand...

The result is what you see in the video - animations that seem to zip from prone to action shot in a couple of frames.

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