Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix
Mario Mix features several of Nintendo's popular characters, including Mario, Luigi, Toad, Toadette, Waluigi, Wario, and Bowser. According to the story, Waluigi has stolen the "Music Keys", unleashing their music upon the Mushroom Kingdom and causing chaos. Mario must restore peace to the land by recovering the Music Keys.
Publisher: Nintendo
Features
The game is divided into several "worlds", each of which has a corresponding set of songs. The game features 29 songs, including some classic Nintendo themes. Each song has 5 difficulty levels - Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, and Super Hard. A workout mode is also available for use in Story Mode and Free Mode. The player must clear each song to earn the Music Key belonging to that world. Songs are played in typical DDR fashion, by pressing arrows on the dance pad (the Nintendo GameCube dance pad is officially called an action pad) that correspond to the music and the arrows displayed on-screen. Mario-themed gameplay elements are also incorporated, such as the ability to jump on enemies by hitting enemy icons in place of certain arrows. Clearing songs also unlocks higher difficulty levels, hidden songs, and minigames. Like all DDR games, each step in a song is judged for accuracy. The possible ratings in Mario Mix are "Perfect", "Great", "Early/Late", and "Miss".
"Freeze" arrows (arrows which require the player to keep their foot on the button until a certain amount of time has elapsed) are absent from this game, as are several modes of play such as "challenge" and "edit". Also, the total number of songs is very low compared to other DDR games, though this likely has to do with the fact that the majority of the music is inspired by the Mario series.
Classical tracks such as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" can be traced back to their original usage in Mario Paint (1992), and "Fishing Frenzy from Csikos Post" can be traced back to Yoshi's Cookie (1993). "Underground Mozart from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" was originally used as the main title theme of the original Mario Bros. arcade game in 1983. Other classic Mario songs are prevalent throughout the game.
Either Mario or Luigi will be featured in the game based on who the player chooses as their character. Also, there is an extra mode that one can play after he or she completes the story mode that replaces some songs with new ones.
This game is the first and only game thus far to feature Waluigi as a main antagonist (without Wario).
"Freeze" arrows (arrows which require the player to keep their foot on the button until a certain amount of time has elapsed) are absent from this game, as are several modes of play such as "challenge" and "edit". Also, the total number of songs is very low compared to other DDR games, though this likely has to do with the fact that the majority of the music is inspired by the Mario series.
Classical tracks such as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" can be traced back to their original usage in Mario Paint (1992), and "Fishing Frenzy from Csikos Post" can be traced back to Yoshi's Cookie (1993). "Underground Mozart from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" was originally used as the main title theme of the original Mario Bros. arcade game in 1983. Other classic Mario songs are prevalent throughout the game.
Either Mario or Luigi will be featured in the game based on who the player chooses as their character. Also, there is an extra mode that one can play after he or she completes the story mode that replaces some songs with new ones.
This game is the first and only game thus far to feature Waluigi as a main antagonist (without Wario).
