Electronic Symphony is better purely by virtue of the soundtrack selection despite all of the extra modes and goodies on offer here, but there's a certain era-specific charm to having your intense streak stop dead in its tracks so that the UMD drive can struggle to load the entire unedited and hyper-compressed (but censored) music video for Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl", upon which the game comes back up to normal speed right around the time Gwen goes "AWWWH, SU-PAH KUH-WAH-EE". Ain't nothin' like mid-2000s pop culture, baby!

Reviewed on Oct 31, 2022


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