Jubeat on ipad

Gamescom - Vierpfeile stand
When I was at Gamescom I visited Vierpfeile's booth located at hall 10.1. They had an ITG Dedicab there, pop'n music 14 with DJ Dao controller, Jukebeat and some other rhythm games. Even though I felt terrible I step on the dedicab and played few songs (as that usually gives me energy for the rest of any convention, fair etc). Well, it wasn't the case this time but I managed to get some full combos, FECs and 96+ on level 10 songs. I wasn't really proud of my results but I was surprised that I could go for a ITG Xuxa full combo. It was ages ago when I played this song on anything four panel^_^.

After that I went to check PNM 14. First shock was that it was actually a CS version so I was like WTF I should do with the game. But then I managed to get back to the options, select nine buttons and play some of the songs I haven't played in a while - Balalaika and Shamshir no mai. When playing the first song I realized that the controller seemed smaller to Rodent's one. I remembered that I already had this problem before (as I own DJ Dao and at cons there were usually Rodent's controllers). Anyway it was fun.

After some time I came back to the stand and was called by NX to try some song. It was from a new song pack - a song by Donk Terrorist. It was set to level 9 difficulty. I played the song, it was too easy. Schmichel was there and showed me Your Own Destiny. I tried the song (difficulty 12 o_O) and managed to fail it quite early. But well I made an impression as it seems. I was told to try again and managed to get much more further that time. I managed to fail few more times at the very same place (where you have to hit two triples fast after each other). Then I was shown some other hardcore song and I managed to fail it as well, but I wasn't doing bad^_^.

I had to try more 11 level songs after that and I cleared them. None of them were so extreme as Your Own Destiny and Hookie Mammoth.

And now we are getting to the epic fail of the day. I asked someone if I can try jubeat. I found out that it is called Jukebeat in Europe (and that is why I was unable to find it anywhere). I know I'm like 2 years or more behind everybody else so for me this is new^_^. I picked some random song on some random difficulty (4) and failed. I just couldn't manage to find out when I'm supposed to hit the notes. The blue lines that were used as marker for this game weren't really helping me. I was trying to figure out when is the right time (as I can't play according to music) to hit the notes but I just failed at that. I decided to try Jubeat when I get back from Gamescom.

EDIT: I tried.

Jubeat
Today was the day. I downloaded the game for free and tried the songs that were there for free. I failed them on on advanced difficulty but this time I was getting lots of blue judgments, some flashy yellow and less misses. I was wondering where the problem was. I changed the marker and found out that I can't figure out when to hit the notes. I switched back to the original one and everything was fine once again. It was probably due to the fact that I already got used to the default one (played on arcade already).

There are KONAMI packs you can purchase with Japanese songs and other song packs featuring western stuff. There's Cindy Lauper pack or Lady Gaga's one for example. I downloaded the first and some KONAMI pack featuring SigSig. And then I was struggling with the blue/yellow pixelated cubes.

When I first played Jubeat on the arcade I remember that I was capable of full comboing a level 6 song (on advanced) but still fail according to the machine. I remember that I had a hard time synchronizing with the game but I know that I managed to get better scores than C and managed to A something like Take on Me. I could clear level 7 songs. So when I tried Jukebeat and failed more or less everything I was surprised. This game has to be played a bit differently when played on a smaller area as it seems. Anyway here's my first attempt at playing Jukebeat. It's not the best video ever, nor score but it was fun^^. I have to say that it is quite challenging to come up with n idea how to shoot the video ^_~.