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Friday 8 February, 2008
GAMEPLAY 2:
The more I play this game, the more addicted I get!! The main reason for that is because you can level up once you build up enough experience. I'm not exactly sure what the advantage is to being a higher level, but I do know that it makes you look cooler if you have the number 11 above your name rather than the number 2. Sometimes I play against my sister or my friends, which also adds to the fun. Audition definitely gives you lots of feelings of satisfaction, because a lot of the time there are heated battles for 1st and 2nd place, and when you get 1st you feel so good about yourself. The scoring system is pretty simple. You can get perfect, great, cool, bad, or miss. The more perfects you get, the higher your score goes. If you make combos of perfects, the you get even more points. If you miss, you get no points. It's pretty easy for the outcome of the game to change. First you think that this one guy is gonna win, but then he happens to miss one wave of arrows and then all of a sudden another person takes over his spot.
There is a wide selection of songs in the game, which is also a plus. Some of them I have never heard of, but they are all catchy dancing songs. Audition is really a great game, because it is innovative and has no game exhaustion. You could play it to infinity and beyond because it goes on forever! Although I guess if you got bored of it, that would be a form of exhaustion...haha. Anyway, everything in the game is very vibrant and exciting. You can change the kind of room that you dance in to whatever you want; from a Halloween themed school classroom to the middle of a Japanese city to a sunny, beach-side stage. Some of the stages, however, are really bright so it makes the arrows harder to see.
DESIGN:
I think that Audition is very uniquely designed. It takes the concept of arrows and twists in a whole new way. While being rhythm based, it also adds in the competition factor and the leveling up. Not only that, but it throws a lot of challenges at you. But first I should describe the different channels. There is a beginner channel that you can enter when you first start out, and all the songs are pretty easy and not too fast. But if you go into the free, intermediate or expert channels, you will be faced with much more difficult songs. In addition to songs being more challenging by their bpm (beats per minute), there is also a mode called "chance mode." This causes red arrows to appear in each of your combinations of arrows. Whatever the red arrow says, you are supposed to press the opposite. So a red arrow pointing to the left would indicate that you must press the right arrow. Chance mode is optional, but many people enjoy doing it because it adds an extra challenge to their gameplay experience.
The reward structure, as I explained earlier, is quite simple. Every time you complete a song, you are awarded a certain amount of experience and beats. It all depends on how you place. Obviously 1st place will receive the most exp and beats, then 2nd place, etc. Having two kinds of rewards is cool because then you have two things to look forward to. When you get beats, you can shop around in the fashion mall and decide what you want to buy with them. The more beats you have, the better stuff that you can buy. Right now I am saving them to get an awesome hairstyle that costs 100000 beats...so it is going to take me a while. But that is what keeps me playing! Then there is experience, which levels you up and shows the Audition world how pro you are. I just really like this game because it is a pretty simple concept to grasp, but it is difficult to master. That is what all games should be about!
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