Amazon.co.uk Review
Featuring over 50 songs this time around, including contributions from high-profile acts such as Kylie Minogue, Chaka Khan and S Club,
Dancing Stage Party Edition is a welcome and expansive addition to the popular dance-game franchise. The game works by throwing up symbols on screen, which indicate where you need to move your feet on the Logic 3 dance mat included in this bundle. Effectively it's as simple as that. Consistently have your feet where they're supposed to be, when they're supposed to be there, and your score will be high. Keep messing it up, and your boogie will have a habit of ending prematurely.
The complications are injected when the tempo is upped, and the game demands that you simply move quicker to keep up. But even when the game's sheer novelty factor is exhausted, there's plenty of reason to keep going thanks to the gradually increasing challenge that it presents. And frankly, Dancing Stage Party Mix is as compulsively entertaining as its predecessors. It particularly hits top gear when two players can dance head to head--though this requires two dance mats. Even the fitness-tailored single-player Workout mode works well.
The game's only real limit comes when you've worked your way through all the songs, and even then it's going to take some time to do that. Aside from that, this is polished, very enjoyable fun that virtually all gamers can warm to. And as an added bonus, it's ample evidence to point under the nose of the next snide git who declares they don't make good games for the PSone any more. --Simon Brew
Product Description
Dancing Stage Party Edition is part of Konami's family-orientated Bemani range of music titles. Using the Spectravideo dance mat included (or any other dance mat, or indeed a standard controller) players must press the relevant buttons as they appear on the screen. Bonuses are awarded for free-style moves, with additional tracks and hidden items unlocked as the game progresses.
Four main gameplay modes allow the user to play a straight conversion of the arcade game, practise with certain tracks, master the basics via a tutorial mode or even lose weight with the Workout mode, assisted by the on-screen calorie counter). Players can also compete against each other using two mats or a separate controller, with each aiming to accrue more points than their rival.
Dancing Stage Party Edition features 51 songs, among them Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head", "Don't Stop Movin'" by S Club 7, Rufus and Chaka Khan's "You Got the Love" and contributions from the Cardigans and the Bloodhound Gang plus original tracks from Konami Japan.
Both game and dance mat are compatible with both PSone and PlayStation 2.