Superstar Dance Club

Superstar Dance Club is a rhythm game originally released as a budget title on PlayStation in the early '00s. There's quite a bit of interesting history surrounding it that Wikipedia won't tell you, actually. In Japan it was originally a Simple 1500 game known as "Love Para: Lovely Tokyo Para-Para Musume", developed by Warashi and published by Media Rings in 2001, with XS games localising and releasing it in North America in 2002, and Europe in 2003. It's existence is mainly to cash in on the Para-Para dancing fad in Japan at the time. A lot of that cultural significance was understandably lost in XS Games' localisation, which is what this Steam version is based on, but you can still see elements of early '00s Japanese culture in the game's visuals. Youtuber Vysethedetermined2 explains this game's history in more detail in this video's description. You can also see what the game looks like running on original hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2dHnvkOtq4 But as for the game...

I FIGURED IT OUT, THE CONTROLS ARE ON THE NUMPAD! 5 = X 4 = Square 6 = O 8 = Triangle After playing through nearly the whole game, I must say this game is TIGHT. IT'S SO TIGHT. HIGHLIGHT: http://www.twitch.tv/p_tog/v/9759351

IT DOESN'T HAVE A TUTORIAL SO HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY IT

This game is my childhood in a nutshell! I remember playing this game as a child on the PlayStation 1 and spending so much time playing through each level over and over again. Although this game feels shorter than i remember, I'll take that as a sign that my skills have improved massively. No tutorial but a great button pressing rhythm game.

WARNING: THE GAME IS RIDICULOUSLY DIFFICULT! PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT MAY BREAK YOUR KEYBOARD AND/OR CONTROLLER. (Oh, and good luck earning the achievements in this game)

The timing is so off it's nigh-unplayable.

great rhythm game with good music!

Achievements: All possible. Frankly, they're quite easy. They don't even require beating the whole game. Pros/Cons: + The art is adorable and wacky. It's got a lot of charm. + The songs are good. They're all catchy with good rhythm. + Even to get an S rank, there was an allowance for mistakes, which was nice. It was a little forgiving. + It's only $4.99. While I didn't get a ton of playtime out of it, it is a rhythm game and replayability is a huge factor. It's not a bad deal. +/- This is the sort of rhythm game that's very metronomic. Button presses never stray away from the underlying beat, nevermind what the rest of the music is doing. +/- Much of the game's difficulty came from distractions thrown in to disrupt the player's concentration on the button prompts. I, personally, don't enjoy that type of challenge in a rhythm game, but others might. - It's really short. There's only seven stages. - There's no tutorial to speak of. The game just plops you into a l...

Frickin fun. 10/10

those button config are terrible omg.. atleast make the the button customizable holy dam.. hell i can't even make it work with my controller LMAO...