Have you ever played Pop'n Music? This Konami Bemani game has a following in Japan, where nimble fingered gamers mash buttons in arcades to the beat of insanely fast music (shown above). But not so much in the US, where we'd rather be at home playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero. American "poppers" are usually stuck importing the Japanese Pop'n games, but Bemanistyle has some news on an upcoming console version.
It seems that a US version will be called Beat'n Groovy, and will be a Konami published Xbox Live Arcade game. An anonymous source tells Bemanistyle that this new game plays like Pop'n, but will use the Xbox 360 controller instead. Think Boom Boom Rocket, except a bit more Japanese and kawaii.
There will be three modes of play: Arcade, Versus and Endless. There will be both 3-button and 5-button modes, with nine levels of difficulty. The game starts with nine songs, but others may be unlockable. Use of the Xbox 360 Camera was also mentioned.
Are you a "popper" or not? Is this something you're looking forward to? Will this make for a good XBLA game?
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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10:19 AM on 08.14.2008
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On topic, finally.
Shrimp poppers are disgusting.
Numbers of buttons seems a bit odd though - could imagine a 4 button and a 6 button (4 + 2 triggers) versions but 3 and 5? Curious...
I'm guessing the analog triggers are a hindrance to a more logical button setting. The PS2 versions use every button for the Dual Shock setup for their nine-button modes.
/minirant
PORRRRR QUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEE
...that goes for all their other Bemani games they phailed to push outside of DDR.
Hopefully this will end up a little better than Konami's previous effort with Beatmania IIDX in the US.
I never played Pop'n, but I've been a bemani lover for many years now. It breaks my heart to see them fail with just about everything they try to do here in the North American market, at least with everything except DDR. The one Beatmania release they tried here was so sad.