DJMAX RESPECT V

Honestly, the game is far more fun than I assumed it would be. It's just like guitar hero, but with much more customization, more diverse music, and the overdrive is used automatically instead of requiring you to use it. The options on hand are insane, you can choose between four different button options, you can complete customize your track, you can even choose the sounds your beats make. The amount of content on offer here is staggering, but it comes with a price. The elephant in the room is the atrocious monetization. This is even more egregious then Cytus 2 got in it's later years. So first of all, the game itself is 50 dollars, which is very expensive for a rhythm game even with the content on offer here. Then, there is almost 800 dollars of dlc. Yes you heard me right, 800 dollars worth of tracks, skins, skips, and sound effects. Assuming you don't want that other junk, what about the songs alone? Well just 20 songs will set you back 30 dollars. Yep, around 60% of the base asking price of the game. It's kind of ridiculous, luckily stuff goes on sale for cheap but the entire concept is out of this world to me. Also on top of the absurd amounts of paid dlc, there's a fortnite-esque item shop??? The shop uses a premium currency you can also buy in game which is just nuts on top of everything I already said. Speaking of Fortnite this game also has a paid battlepass! Pretty much anything that can be monetized is in this game. There's a decent amount of content to start, but the amount of stuff to buy is overwhelming even when it's all on sale. tl;dr: Only ever look at this game or it's dlc on sales. Do not ever pay full price for this, it's just ridiculous all around. Plus you can't mod the game, plus it's only online, plus the game by itself is almost 100gb. Lots of stipulations but if you can grab the game on heavy sale it's a steal. In terms of music quality and how it functions as a game, I'd give it a cool 8/10. If I didn't get it on sale it would probably be a different story. Also as a side note, I'm not sure if this only happens to me, but the quit game button in this game doesn't even quit the game properly the game stays stuck running in the background of my computer refusing to close unless I literally shut Steam down, so there's that as well.

I grew up playing dj max portable 2 on psp. the game is great. The number 1 rhythm game for me. This should have OFFLINE mode.