DJ Max Fever

released on Feb 27, 2009

Based on DJMax Portable 2 but mixing elements from all the games, DJMax Fever features a brand new mix of music tracks, a re-balanced difficulty curve, new visual elements and more! The title packs in more than 100 songs for you to tap through, as well as a Freestyle Mode, Extreme challenges, five difficulty levels, Network Battle Mode and a collection gallery to house the music videos, soundtracks, and images you unlock.


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One of my first hyper obsessions

DJ Max is a huge rhythm game hit in Korea that uses a DDR type gameplay style. There is obviously no dance mat so you have to use the face buttons and this works out just fine. There are 4 button, 5, 6, and 8 button modes. While 4 is the easiest 8 can be damn near impossible. You select a song for each of the four stages and each stage has harder and harder songs.

The game has some RPG elements such as leveling up to unlock more gear, images, songs, etc. Notes, Gear (the whole box in which the notes fall), and your character can have certain attributes that earn you more exp, gold etc. There is even a speed modifier for people who want more of a challenge or if the game is going too fast for you. This can be changed during the song or before it.


After you get a certain score on a song you can play a harder version of that song on the same stage by pressing left or right. During play, you must hit each note when it hits the bottom. Depending on your accuracy a number percentage will appear. If you miss a note you will break your combo, but if you fill your Fever bar and use it your combo will double for a short amount of time. You don’t just hit single notes, however; there are held notes and even “scratched notes” that require you to spin the analog stick.

Once you finish a song you are scored on how well you performed and given a grade, some experience, and gold. Gold is used to buy more gear. There are 50 songs and each one has a wonderfully illustrated music video that streams in the background. If you get bored with the main mode you can complete challenges which have set goals. Reach this score, don’t break more than this many times etc. If you really love the music in here you can even listen to the OST or watch the videos. There are dozens of images to unlock and lots of goodies for fans to keep playing.

The game may sound perfect, but it has flaws. There are already four other DJ Max games (including Clazziqai and Black Square Edition) and this is exactly the same as those. Fever takes some of the more popular songs from those games, but it is still missing some key gems. Playing more than 4 buttons will frustrate most players, there’s no way to transfer the OST to your memory stick, and you can’t transfer songs from the other versions like you can within those. Other than this newcomers won’t know a difference and will have a blasty blast with DJ Max Fever.

A game I never thought I would find myself playing, I had never even heard of the DJ Max series, in fact it was the cover that caught my attention. Turns out it is a very good game, nice visuals, great electropop, techno, dance, j-pop, k-pop, and so so much more for music, the concept is simple, push the button that represents the color shown, the music videos visuals are awesome, and the songs are great. Good game to pass the time with.