The characters out of focus are additionally placed in out-of-the-way locations so that they're as far from the action as possible, such as hiding characters behind the bleachers at Queen's Highschool or moving the action to the rafters of Hanazono for a solo while the rest of the team is stuck down on the dance floor. Depending on the pairings, the camera will either focus on everyone in a quartet, focus on two people in a duo, shift focus between two pairs for a tag combo, focus on one person in a solo, or just remain static and unfocused on anyone if everybody picks something different. Dance Summit uses a simplified version of this for its team-up system. It's not uncommon for the camera to end up wildly flipping back and forth between the players in a heated battle where both players are able to only momentarily top each other. In the first two games, as the song progresses, the camera will begin focusing on whoever is ahead score-wise, zooming in closer and closer as the gap grows wider until the winning player hogs ALL of the screen, with the losing opponent, at best, being barely visible in the background. Camera Screw: Turned into a gameplay mechanic.Butt-Monkey: Dancing Heroes' host, James Suneoka.God forbid you get a phone call or have to answer the doorbell in the middle of a song. The only options on the pause menu is 'Retry' or 'Quit'. Bladder of Steel: The game lets you pause, but you can't continue where you left off.Frida's song is also still in Japanese for.some reason.Heat (at least in the first game) and Shorty still speak in Japanese. Bilingual Dialogue: Doesn't matter which region you're playing.Big Fancy Castle: Tsutomu's stage, complete with big fancy dragon.Big Boo's Haunt: Bi-O's stage, appropriate for the zombie who dances like Michael Jackson.He used to be a svelte dancer, but his insatiable appetite for fast food drove him into obesity. Big Applesauce: Kelly's stage in Bust a Groove 2.Berserk Button: Gas-O's berserk button is being asked to take off his gas mask.Bare Your Midriff: Frida, Pinky, Hamm, Strike in the first game, Kelly in the second game, Candy, Betty, Olive, Kei, Me, Miranda, and Imawa.He attacked his father Bi-O with an axe, lodging it into his skull. Line 'em up, and something freaky/cool happens in the stage you're dancing in. Awesomeness Meter: The Groove Bars in Bust a Groove 2.Averted for the other characters in the other modes, where his stage isn't accessible outside of his personal Practice and Dance View modes in the first game, and the second player is required to select Robo-Z in order to play on his stage in versus mode. Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The bossfights against Robo-Z at the end of the game have him at his true Kaiju size.The AI messes up quite a bit, though it has no problem reflecting your attacks. Particularly in Bust a Groove 2 and Dance Summit 2001. ![]() Artificial Stupidity: All three games have their moments.Of course, it helps that it's on the PS2. Animation Bump: The motion capture moves were always impressive, but whether fans love it or hate it, they all seem to agree that Dance Summit 2001 has some of the best motion capture graphics the series has ever seen. ![]()
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