Try Audition 2) Its a lot more fun and looks waaaaay better)

It’s like if you took the heads of the Azumanga Daioh girls & plopped them onto Chou Gals bodies.

Hehe, Puzzle Bubble Bobble just flows right off the tongue.

Uh, the girly way the boys dace is giving me the weirdest girl boner.

OMG, I actually guessed the right MMO he’d do this time! I wouldn’t have thought that’d happen.

I used to play Audition back in the Nexon days and then briefly after it moved over to RedBana. I have to say, RedBana has done a much better job of presenting the game, even if the community hasn’t changed much through the move. I did like some of the music from Nexon’s collection, but at least these are actual songs you can dance to and not just music tracks so you can hear the downbeat. And as a former player, I have to admit, you do suck, man. I was a much better dancer than you, and *I* could never complete the level 6 exit license game. Speaking of, does Audition still have license challenges for the levels, or is it just a matter of earning experience as fast as possible.

For those who are curious, it used to be that, at least in the Nexon days, that you could earn experience just by showing up and playing various modes… until you reached level 5. After you reached level 5 and maxed out the XP you could earn, you either had to complete a license challenge or suffer down as a level 5 poser; at least you could earn beats as much as you wanted. In the license challenges, you enter a special solo room with one of audition’s own tracks and had to earn a certain number of points and/or complete certain tasks within the restraint of the song. For instance, you might have had to earn 200,000 points and completed at least one finishing move (which is an elaborate level 9 dance move; you only get one bar to finish it or it counts as a miss), or perhaps achieve 5 Perfects with at least 3 in a row. Complete this, and you level up; fail, and you got to try the dance again. The nice thing is that you get unlimited tries and practices as the game, even if you get no bonuses for failures.

Other game mechanics you failed to mention (and these aren’t level specific, fyi):
1) If you manage to chain perfects together, you can cause problems for your rival dancers. You can tell you unlocked it or are targeted because the circle around your feet has changed. If you are being targeted, you have to achieve a Perfect move (or perhaps a Great at best, been a while) to prevent your score from being nullified for that move. Succeed at fending off the “attack”, and you’ll see a green face appear over your head while a yellow one comes from the attacker; fail, and you see a red face over yours and a blue over the attackers. This only occurs in dance modes where everyone is competing at once, either choreography more or normal/freestyle mostly.
2) It’s not really important, but each move pattern always generates the same dance move from your avatar. Want to see a certain dance from your avatar, be certain to type in that pattern. I thought it was neat, at least.
3) 4-key mode verses 8-key mode. You were struggling with 4-key so I can understand why you left it out. If you pressed Insert on a freestyle mode, or selected certain options in the various dance modes, you have the option of performing moves that use the outer 8 keys of the keypad that score more points but are harder to pull off, especially in the faster songs. The dances also get considerably more impressive for those who can pull it off.
4) You didn’t really talk much about the timing issue. You can type in your dance move as fast as possible, but you have to wait until the beat before “entering” it. Pressing space when the beat bar is in the dead center of the flashing zone, and you’re on the downbeat of the first beat in the bar; the closer you get to there, the better your score and more in-time with the song your dance is. Hit it outside the zone, and it counts as a miss, even if you entered all the right moves, you get lowered in rank and have to wait for the next bar to start dancing again.

Wow, that was a lot longer than I expected. Maybe I should start doing MMO reviews. … Nah, I don’t have a camera and I’m slightly camera shy. I could stick to just text, but who would want to read that?

Here’s some fun nightmare fuel for you:

That daughter you talked about, with the creepy mask? Well, that’s a legitimate (supposedly) style of cosplay over in Japan, called Kigurumi. It was pretty much the extreme level of cosplay where instead of JUST the costume, one would also wear a mask that looked like the character’s face. I think it originated from stage shows that were put on based on certain sentai or magical girl series, and people thought it was a good idea *shiver* to utilize it.

You’d pretty much see this sort of thing at conventions and whatnot. It was also customary not to talk while wearing the get-up, as it would break the illusion that you were that character. So you’d just have these people walking about, never speaking (unless necessary I’m sure), but they would be the life of cons.

My sources are I used to be one of those people that just never knew when to NOT click on links or search for nonsense. I’ve seen some things, man… I wouldn’t recommend it! (herp-derp, Family Guy reference!)