It'll take time to get accustomed to Tune's touch-based gameplay, but if you progress through the difficulties in order, by the time you get to Club, you'll feel like a DJ already. Club Mixing is a true challenge as you're tasked to clear four songs (three of your choosing and one mystery song) on one single health bar. Star only tasks you to tap and to drag notes, while Pop introduces the other types of notes right from the get go. Thankfully the game splits the game up into three separate difficulties, Star Mixing, Pop Mixing and Club Mixing. What's more, it also utilizes the rear touchpad which makes the game much harder, but for those looking to ease into the game, can turn this feature off. Sometimes you'll have to hold down the note, tap on the same note multiple times, drag the note across a specific path, and on the harder difficulties, do these at the same time. A line slides across each lane to the beat and prompts you to push any of the buttons. So how exactly do you make sweet, sweet music with Tune? The top and bottom half of the screen are split up with the top half displaying notes going to the right, while the bottom displays them going left. Aside from the Start button which pauses the song, the entire game, right down to the menus, is controlled with the touchscreen.

Tune focuses solely on touch based controls. Think of it as Guitar Hero with the Vita being a multipurpose instrument, rather than just focusing on a single one. A series of button presses can then become the songs drum track, the vocals in a chorus, a piano and much more.

The DJ Max series tasks players to 'complete' various songs by correctly timed button presses to trigger various instruments or vocals. Since the Vita also boasts an impressively sized touch screen, it only made sense for the series to continue here with DJ Max Technika Tune.

DJ Max Fever and DJ Max Portable 3 were both stellar entries for the music game enthusiast.Īrcades however already have DJ Max's next iteration, Technika, which features touch-screen enabled gameplay. The PSP however saw a resurgence in these Beatmania type games with DJ MAX, a korean take on the popular japanese Bemani series. The Beatmania series never really kicked off here, since we never got a sequel to the PS2 game of the same name.

Bemani-style games have certainly been in decline over the past few years, at least in the US.

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