Superstar Dance Club: #1 Hits (PS1) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
486A playthrough of XS Games' 2002 rhythm music game for the Sony Playstation, Superstar Dance Club: #1 Hits.
Played through the main game mode to get the ending and final credits.
Originally released under the name Love Para: Lovely Tokyo Para-Para Musume (as part of the Fukyuuban 1500 series of budget-priced games) in Japan in 2001. It was also released on Steam in 2015.
Despite the ultra-generic title and its status as a $10 budget game at release, Superstar Dance Club: #1 Hits is a surprisingly competent and entertaining game. It follows the same basic idea as any of the Konami/Bemani music games that were popular at the time, just without scrolling arrows. It all boils down to timing specific button presses in-time with the music, and the patterns get progressively harder with each pass at each venue.
The graphics are nice and bright and fairly appealing. There isn't much at all in the way of animation, but there are cheesy big boob shots, some amusingly odd things going on in the backgrounds of later stages, and it's undeniably Japanese in every aspect of its presentation. So, if you taste vomit at anything those creepy and obsessive Japanophiles (read: 30 year-old, 250lb men wearing teenage-girl anime outfits that they just starched for some convention while atonally mumbling nonsense sounds - probably approximating something they think resembles Japanese - over their "Now! That's What I Call Desperation! Shoujo Anime Favorites Vol. 12" CD at their "pad", aka Mom's basement) might scream 'kawaii!' at, avoid the game at all costs. Wow, that was a weirdly detailed rant. My bad.
The music was the real surprise here. Nothing is licensed and it's all chip-generated (think midi), but the synths are all played back with good quality samples that are pretty effective at hitting that in-your-face hyper-energetic style that was typically of most dance music from the era.
If you find it in a budget bin for a couple bucks, give it a shot! It's competely unambitious and shallow, but you'll probably be pleasantly surprised at just how good it is for what it is.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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