This is going to be my first real entry, the last I used as my Bio basically.

Well I got probably about 2 hours in last night for Pop’n. I decided to see exactly what I cannot complete of the songs yet. I went through free training and took on a few songs that I had either 1) not played yet, or 2) had not beat last time I played them. My list is currently down to 8:

ENKA - Remix*
Special Ending 2*
Des - REGGAE*
01 Punk
Surf Rock
Miracle
Pump
Classic 4

* - At a higher level than practice will complete. I will need to learn new skills for these.

That is not a whole lot. There are 5 songs that I have not opened yet, but I have no idea how/where to open them. I should look over the FAQ and see how to open them with codes. I am pretty sure they are just EX versions or long versions of currently open songs. So out of a total of 97 songs I can complete 84. Not bad at all in under a month.

Actually after checking back my Gaming Journal says that I started to play 9 line mode on the 7th. So after about 14 days of practice I can beat 84 songs. Ha! I impress myself.

Where am I left? Well I have many routes to take. I can keep advancing and go onto Hyper. If I take this route I may be cheating myself. I cannot get over 75K on most songs and not more than 85K on any. I could go back and learn the songs that I really like and try to get the 95K+ on them, which will most likely take a while. I have only fully comboed one song in 9-line (Radio - Bitter Sweet Samba) it was really cool to do so I may pursue this route.

I also have not really tried Expert mode. This would really go hand in hand with the scoring principle. The only difference is that I just need to not get any “bad” notes, where in scoring I need to get “fever” or “cool” notes. I am thinking that this will probably be the next course of action for me.

My wife, Sara, has taken up 9-line mode over the past few days. She is making really quick progress. She can beat a level 11 song already. I should mention that she has never played a rhythm game before although they have interested her. She gets so damn furious with me when all I try to do is help her. I don’t get it. If she screws up she gets this venomous tone with me when I hand out tips for improvement. Ahh F’ it. She just needs to learn how to work a rotation properly so that I can play too. It is no fun sitting on the couch for an hour watching her freetrain that 80’s song.