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The touchpad antics can actually be turned off via the menu (simply turning the rear notes to normal front-screen ones), but once past the initial learning curve, the additional challenge is thoroughly enjoyable, especially as tougher songs tend to cluster mixed note types from both inputs, making for a level of physical involvement just short of a dancing- or plastic-instrument-based rhythm game. The touchpad notes are thankfully simpler, requiring only proper timing rather than precision aim as with the front-screen notes, but having them in play ups the level of concentration and coordination required considerably. The rear touchpad is used to bring yet more note types into play, tapping or holding. So far, so standard…until Technika Tune starts involving its party piece: the Vita’s rear touchpad. When full, the Fever power can be triggered to grant maximum score to every note hit so long as it’s not missed completely. Successful hits feed into a “Fever” gauge.

The notes themselves are either to be tapped on cue or dragged along a specific path. The screen is split into two horizontal halves, and the sync bar crosses them in turn, first left-to-right on the top half, then in the opposite direction on the bottom half. The closer to the bar they hit, the better the score. Players will tap notes as a sync bar passes over them. The mechanics are as might be expected for a rhythm game (the relative novelty of a touch screen aside). Smudge-averse players should keep a cloth handy to clean up every so often. Besides pushing the Start button to skip the opening movie, nearly every game action from tapping notes to navigating menus is done on the touch screen. In fact, the game is almost exclusively touch-based. That makes the Vita a natural (if smaller) fit for the series, and Pentavision has fully committed to making their touch-based game work with the Vita’s own touch wizardry.

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Whether or not that’s true, however, I did have quite a lot of fun playing a great rhythm game, and perhaps the first title yet to make the PS Vita’s primary gimmicks fun to use.Īs implied by the title, DJMAX Technika Tune is an extension of the DJMAX Technika line, an arcade series known for using a massive 22-inch touch screen as its main interface. To some, that would make me only slightly more qualified to review this Korean-born rhythm game than say, a chimpanzee, or a person without hands, or even someone who is vision- or hearing-impaired. Prior to playing DJMAX Technika Tune for this review, I could count the number of times I had listened to K-Pop music on one hand, one of those being PSY’s “Gangnam Style.”