Product Description

Get ready to groove with your favorite Disney characters! The magical world of Disney hits the dance floor with an entirely new DanceDanceRevolution game on the Wii. Leveraging classic Disney characters and 40 Disney songs that we all know and love DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves combines the mega-popular DanceDanceRevolution dancing phenomenon with content that is cool and relevant with today¿s youth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1882 in Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Model: 25091
• Published on: 2009-04
• Released on: 2009-04-02
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.70" h x 11.50" w x 13.20" l, 6.00 pounds

Features

• New modes include: My Studio, where players can take pictures of their customized characters; Dressing Room, where players can customize their character with 60 different outfits.
• Two DDR dance mats included, encouraging multiplayer fun right out of the box.
• Multiplayer support of 2-4 players.
• Features 40 classic family-friendly songs and remixes from your favorite Disney movies and classic Disney characters including: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Pluto, etc.
• Utilize your Mii - Take your Mii to the dance floor and customize your Mii using Disney outfits and accessories.

Amazon.com Product Description

The magical world of Disney hits the dance floor with an entirely new DanceDanceRevolution game for Wii designed for multiplayer fun right out of the box. Leveraging classic Disney characters, 40 Disney songs that we all know and love and bundled with two DDR dance mats, DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves combines the mega-popular DanceDanceRevolution dancing phenomenon with content that is cool and relevant with today's youth. Dance along with classic Disney characters. View larger. 40 family-friendly songs. View larger. Customizable characters. View larger. Multiple play modes. View larger. Gameplay DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves features some of the most beloved Disney characters of all-time including Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy, all brought to life with enhanced graphics. But where this version of DDR really sets itself apart is in its wealth of new play modes. For a more personalized experience, DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves allows players to customize their very own Miis with special Disney costumes in its Dressing Room mode. In Groove World, players achieve goals to unlock cool new costumes, stages and songs. Workout Mode, Training Mode and Advanced Mode will challenge the physical limits of experienced players. The game also feature My Studio mode, which enables players to take pictures of their customized characters or strike a pose with classic Disney characters. Together with the two included DDR dance mats this makes DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves the most unique DDR release to date Song List A Dream is a Wish a Heart Makes A Pirate's Life Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo Chim Chim Cher-ee Circle of Life Colonel Hathi's March Cruella De Vil D.J. Goof Ice Ice Mickey It's a Small World M.C. Mickey Mickey's Magic Land Step in Time Streets Of Gold The Ballad Of Davy Crockett The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah I Just Can't Wait To Be King Thomas O'Malley Cat Disney's Carnival Following the Leader Makuna Matata You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly A Spoonful Of Sugar Crazy 'Bout The Mouse Ducks In The Hood He Mele No Lilo He's A Tramp I Wan'na Be Like You Little Red Rappinghood Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Everybody Wants To Be A Cat Jungle Beat The Bare Necessities Can You Feel The Love Tonight Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride Mickey Mouse Club Mix Magical House Cleaning/Blue Or Pink Mickey Mouse Club March Turkey In The Straw Key Features Two DDR Dance Mats Included - Designed to encourage multiplayer fun right out of the box DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves includes two DDR dance mats. Multiplayer support - Game supports 2-4 players. Extensive Song List - Game includes 40 classic family-friendly songs and remixes from your favorite Disney movies. Disney Characters - Features classic Disney characters we all know and love including: Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Pluto and others. Utilize your Mii - Take your Mii to the dance floor and customize your Mii using Disney outfits and accessories. In-game Environments - Players can choose from over 35 new venues. Brand new modes include: My Studio - Mode where players can take pictures of their customized characters or strike a pose with classic Disney characters. Dressing Room - Mode where players can customize their character with 60 different outfits.

Customer Reviews

Awesome Game for Any Age!
I purchased DDR Disney Grooves this weekend, so I've had it less than a week. That said, I feel very comfortable recommending this game to anybody who's thinking about getting it. My reasons for this are simple:

1) Value! It comes with a game AND two dance pads for just a little more than the price of most Wii games. And, once you've got the pads, you can pick up other Wii DDR games and keep on dancin'! Also, 40+ songs and several "stages" as well as many different "Audience Request" challenges ensures that you can get many hours of gameplay out of this before you've seen and done everything in this game.

2) Great for kids! The various difficulty levels allow for very young children to play and still get decent scores. Beyond that, there's a "Friendship" mode which only counts the best score on each move so if the little one has yet to develop rhythm, an older sibling or parent's score will help out and the kid will never know that he wasn't doing so well. Of course, being a Disney licensed product, this game is definitely geared to be friendly to the younger set. All your favorite characters (or at least their "costumes") are here and, even when you aren't doing so well, the voice-over "announcer" is very supportive and the "audience" never boos like in other versions of DDR.

3) It's great for adults, too! Bear with me on this one. I'm in my late 20's as are my two friends who played this with me. We can tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this game is not easy! More importantly to adults, the music is actually pretty good. Just unlock the remix of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and you'll know what I'm talking about (although double-stomping with the bass beat every fourth measure or so makes me feel a little like a Backstreet Boy).

4) The music is good! (I know, this is somewhat covered in #3, but I can't emphasize enough how good it is!) To recognize all of it, you would have to be a major Disney fan, but most of it will be familiar to you, regardless. These ain't your daddy's Disney, though. These are very high quality REMIXES of the songs you know and love. Everything from Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo to Hakuna Matata and even stuff from the Disney Parks such as the Tiki Room song!

5) There is just one negative aspect of this game: doing gestures with the Wii-mote and Nunchuck is EXTREMELY innacurate. This a pretty important point because I found it to be very frustrating (and, if I thought it was bad, it could be enough to make some kids cry). The things really rarely seem to pick up my movements. How can I be getting "perfect" with my feet but be constantly missing beats with my hands? This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that you can turn off the hand gestures, but there are some challenges where you MUST use them. I'm very concerned that I may not be able to unlock everything without being able to make the hand gestures work better.

All in all, I find the game to be very enjoyable and highly recommend it to anyone who is thinking about picking it up. I took off one star on my overall score for the hand-movements issue. Even in light of that issue, though, I think this is a great pack for anyone with kids or any adults who just really like Disney! Have fun and keep groovin'!

All in the wrists
I have always liked DDR but never enough to buy it. However, when I saw there was a Disney version I couldn't resist.

Let me start by talking about the hand motions since it seems to be an issue for most people! Like the other reviewers, I was at first frustrated by the lack of accuracy when shaking the remote and/or nunchuck as instructed. Then my husband made a wonderful discovery: hold your arms close to your body, elbows at your sides and bent at 90 degree angles so that your forearms (and, by extension, hands and remote/nunchuck) are parallel to the floor; when it's time to shake your right or left hand, just make a quick flick of the wrist instead of shaking your whole arm around. Since I started playing this way, I've been getting mostly "perfect" ratings for the hand motions. Hooray!

Now for the rest of the game: I agree with what most people have said--there's a good mix of music. Some of the remixes are better than others. I recommend doing the lessons with the DJ (in the song list) a few times to practice if you haven't played DDR before or haven't played in a while (also good for practicing the hand motions). You can change the difficulty for each song as you select it, so it's nice that certain songs aren't just difficult or easy. I like that you can play against or with someone, and I admit that I like the encouraging rating system better than the regular DDR system. So what if I'm 20-something and it's for kids? Workout mode is pretty neat (that's not specific to this version, but worth mentioning). Also, I think it's pretty awesome that it comes with 2 mats and that you can make use of your Mii.

I'm giving this a solid 5 stars. It would be nice if the hand motions could be a little more free (like shaking maracas in the air instead of flicking dough off a spoon) but that's really the only complaint I have--not enough to deduct a star.

Very fun DDR game!
I was skeptical of the Disney Groove DDR game for the Wii because many recent DDR games have been, at best, a little hokey.

This is the perfect DDR game for the family and the Wii. There is enough variety in the songs that you don't find yourself only enjoying a single song from the beginning list (songs are unlocked via gameplay). Well, that is unless you dislike all Disney songs.

And we're not talking Hannah Montana or other tween fodder - but songs from classic Disney movies and theme parks. Some songs are the original song, like Thomas O'Malley Cat (Aristocats) and He's a Tramp (Lady and the tramp) while others are up-tempo dance variations. There's a good mix.

The costumes are a nice touch and you can be anything from a mermaid to a princess to a dwarf to Piglet (I unlocked that shortly after getting the game) as well as playing as your own Mii character in those various costumes (one of the first unlocks.)

The level backgrounds/stages are fanciful and draw inspiration from Disney films - thus far I've seen Hercules, Aladdin, and Alice in Wonderland themed stages to name a few.

Some of my friends, who are DDR junkies, worried this would an easy DDR title for kids. It can be set very easy, but it can be just as hard as any other DDR game.

A single negative I've run across is that you cannot disable hand-movements in a head-to-head dance-off challenges. It's a Wii DDR creation that you have to swing the controller or nunchuck on the beat. It can be shut off for every other part of the game though.

Overall, great DDR game if you're a Disney fan or just want some happy upbeat songs to dance to.