Have you ever playedPop’n Music? This Konami Bemani game has a following in Japan, where nimble fingered gamers mash buttons in arcades to the beat of insanely fast music (shown above). But not so much in the US, where we’d rather be at home playingRock BandorGuitar Hero. American “poppers” are usually stuck importing the JapanesePop’ngames, butBemanistylehas some news on an upcoming console version.
It seems that a US version will be calledBeat’n Groovy, and will be a Konami published Xbox Live Arcade game. An anonymous source tells Bemanistyle that this new game plays likePop’n, but will use the Xbox 360 controller instead. ThinkBoom Boom Rocket, except a bit more Japanese andkawaii.
There will be three modes of play: Arcade, Versus and Endless. There will be both 3-button and 5-button modes, with nine levels of difficulty. The game starts with nine songs, but others may be unlockable. Use of the Xbox 360 Camera was also mentioned.
Are you a “popper” or not? Is this something you’re looking forward to? Will this make for a good XBLA game?
