DJ Max: Portable (PSP)

19/8/10

Hi, can I get ACE for doing the Dead Poet's Society since not many people did it =D Anyway today I will be reviewing about DJ Max.

Well DJ Max: Portable is just like Tap Tap Revenge. Notes come down from the top of the screen. As they pass by the red bar at the bottom in time with the music, hit the corresponding button. Harder songs has "Holds" which require you to keep a key pressed for a certain amount of time and a certain type of note where you rotate the analog stick. Each consecutive successful hit you make will contribute to your "combo", which will increase the amount of points you get when you reach a certain amount of combo hits. Essentially what you're doing is filling in notes over the background tune as indicated by markers and the end-result is what the fully-instrumented song should sound like.



DJ Max Portable introduces different note-skins and "gears" which change the look of the playing field. Respectively, they can also give you a "MAX multiplier" or extra "HP". MAX is the "currency" of the game and is determined by your accuracy in hitting all of the notes in a song. Obviously, the more accurate you are, the more MAX you'll make. HP represents the amount of "life" you have which will be depleted by missing notes and regained by maintaining your combo. Different gears will either decrease or increase your maximum HP. Both gears and note-skins, as mentioned above, will change the look of your playing field, though sometimes it makes it harder to see the notes.

Some of the songs are really hard (for me) but I found out that you can keep pressing all the buttons at once to hit the notes without any reduction in your score, so I believe this is quite a major flaw in the game. I played this game quite long ago so I can't really remember everything about it.

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Rating:
Graphics: 7/10 (Just videos playing at the back of your playing field.)
Sound: 10/10 (Its a musical game, so of course it has good music.)
Content: 10/10 (A lot of features/difficulty to choose from, you can play with 4 buttons, 6 buttons or even 8 buttons.