So after a few months’ hiatus, I’ve been getting back into DJMAX Trilogy, which isn’t really the revival of DJMAX Online so much as it is a PC port of DJMAX Portable. Go go recursive ports.

As before I use 6 key. 4 key feels too simple for me, 5 key is stupid (there’s 2 keys for it like DJMP, hence my mini-rant about this game being a recursive port), and 7 key with autocorrect is too idiotic to learn, and I have yet to unlock 8 key (which will probably be slightly less bogus than 7K). It’s certainly less stressful playing on a keyboard with six fingers than with my thumbs.

I’d bother with Fever if it weren’t for the silly way it was implemented in Trilogy; it now drains over notes rather than time, which means it’s easier to keep a fever chain going on easier sections instead of the other way around. While I like that this system encourages accuracy, it does it in a rather harsh way; get to a cluster of notes that you can’t 100% handle and you’ll lose your fever chain. Thus, I care not for score or the score-based grading system; I am a percent player.

I really hope that if Pentavision makes yet another DJMAX game, that they remove autocorrect or at least make it optional. If its implementation is over copyright crap, that’s a pretty stupid reason to implement it; making the game register a press of any key as correct as long as a note is hit doesn’t change the fact that it still looks a lot like Beatmania. Also, I’ve seen countless newbies and professional reviewers get thrown off by this feature when they got DJMAX Fever, thinking that now they don’t need to hit the right buttons. Way to be, Pentavision. I bet DJMAX Technika 2, if there ever is one, is gonna have this feature too.