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REVIEW DANCING STAGE UNIVERSE
PUBLISHER
KONAMI
DEVELOPER
IN-HOUSE
GENRE
BEMANI
PLAYERS
1-2
PRICE
£39.99
HD
720p,1080i
RELEASE DATE
OUT NOW
VERDICT
Don’t put a lot of credence in this score – it’s there to represent what the game does. You either love shaking your booty on a dance mat or you don’t. Buy it if you do, don’t if you don’t.
SCORE
06/DEC/07
Reviews like this put the X360 team in an awkward position. It’s a dancing game and we can’t dance. And that, dear friends, makes us slightly biased towards the whole experience. Being that bias is not a quality we will allow to be associated with the mag, we’re therefore stuck in a rather awkward corner.

Why should we actually worry about that, though? After all, if you already have a Dancing Stage title or you’re just a huge fan of twee Japanese Bemani games with oversized peripherals and the propensity to make the player look like – simply put – a flaming idiot, then what we have to say about Dancing Stage Universe is going to make little lasting impression on you.

However, if you’re not a 12-year-old girl and are highly sceptical of this kind of fluffy, dancey, semi-masochistic test of patience, then you are best off steering well clear. But then, you know that already, don’t you? Redundant is an… interesting word.

Dan Howdle
 
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