Beat'n Groovy
Beat'n Groovy is a music video game developed by Japanese studio Voltex and distributed over Xbox Live Arcade. It was released on October 8, 2008. The game is based on Pop'n Music, a similarly styled arcade/PlayStation 2 game series that, at the time, had not been released officially outside Japan.
Beat'n Groovy
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Konami
- Genre
- music video game
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Beat'n Groovy is a music video game developed by Japanese studio Voltex and distributed over Xbox Live Arcade. It was released on October 8, 2008. The game is based on Pop'n Music, a similarly styled arcade/PlayStation 2 game series that, at the time, had not been released officially outside Japan.
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• Title — Beat'n Groovy • Developer — Voltex • Publisher — Konami • Released — October 8, 2008 • Genre — Rhythm game • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Xbox 360 (XBLA)
Gameplay
Gameplay
As scrolling notes scroll down the screen, the player is to press the corresponding button on the controller, which plays a keysound which fills in part of the selected song. Players are judged on the accuracy of their hits, and a life bar on the side of the screen increases or decreases depending on their performance. The life bar must be at or over 60% at the end of the song in order to pass. The game features nine songs (ranked on a difficulty level of 1 to 9, although the hardest song is only a 3), and seven playable characters. 3-key and 5-key modes are available, with online multiplayer modes using 3-key only. An additional play mode using the Xbox Live Vision camera is also available.
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Beat'n Groovy published.
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Beat'n Groovy is recorded as published in 2008.
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Beat'n Groovy is associated with Japan.
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Reception
IGNs Hilary Goldstien gave Beat'n Groovy a 2.0/10, critiquing the game as "poorly designed and poorly executed", and dubbing the song list as being "horrendous".
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4876900: Beat'n Groovy
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