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Finally,
Konami have made a Dance game for the GameCube - with a classic
Nintendo twist of course. Dance, Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
is pretty similar to Konami’s other dancing games. For those not
familiar with the Dance Revolution franchise there are four
pads on a dance mat; forwards, backwards, left and right. You have
to press these in the order they appear when they reach the marker,
in time to the music. If you miss them it knocks down your beat
meter, if that reaches zero its game over.
For
this version there are several different Mario characters you can
choose from, (Mario, Luigi, Toad, Waluigi, Wario and Bowser)
dancing around the screen with you, which can be changed at the
touch of a button to add a bit of variety, rather than a
silhouetted non-descript person players have become accustomed to.
This works as a double edged sword as watching shake Luigi shake
his thang is so funny it proves quite distracting.
It
has five different difficulty settings for you to choose from;
easy, normal, hard, very hard and super hard as well as the now
well established work out mode - aimed at burning calories.  It
wasn’t playable at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) so its
unsure whether it includes features such as a calorie counter but
any game which exercises more than your thumbs has got to be better
then none at least.
One
disappointment experienced on the E3 Demo was that all the songs
available to play were Nintendo themed songs; although it has been
confirmed there will be over 25 songs, some of which will be
familiar, which can be unlocked as you progress through the game.
This
game isn’t anything revolutionary; it’s basically - as the name
suggests - a dancing game with Mario in it. But it is the only
dancing game with a confirmed European release date available for
the GameCube, so really, it’s better than nothing!
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