DDR Hottest Party 3 Brilliant 2U Expert PFC AAA with gimmicks on.

Said my piece on the song beforehand, so I'm not gonna bore you with that.

Yes, this is one of those songs where you have to play it with gimmicks for the AAA to count.

The gimmick here is double stomp, and for the most part it doesn't intrude into the chart too much. (you do have to watch for hidden jumps though) The big fear, however, is the ending stream. I hope you're good at reading double stomps really fast in the middle of a stream, because the entire last few notes is a backturn crossover stream that is pretty much nothing but them one after the other. Good luck to you.

This marks one of the LAST remaining 9 foot and below AAAs left to get in the game. Two of the remaining three songs are PFC'd but with a gold crown AA (This Night, You Are A Star). Only one song remains un-PFCd and that's What Will Come Of Me. What makes that so bad is that aside from a pad miss, I've ACTUALLY gotten this one before.

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[darknight068]

On another note with HP1, I now understand why some Gimmick and hands AAAs counted as a new record even though I've AAAd it beforehand foot only. There's technically more notes to hit individually.

[darknight068]

However, that game wasn't programmed to penalize you for not having gimmicks on as the score will even out irregardless of whether you have them on or not. The decision to do this on HP2 and 3 had to be intentional, as there's no way they would've done the same thing for two games if it was a mistake.

The only thing funny about the Love Again situation is that it doesn't take points away from the total score for hitting one of those. With HP1/MM it did.

[darknight068]

As for HP1 and DDRDG not having these requirements, my best guess is that it's because HP2 uses a completely different scoring setup and HP3 just uses what remains of that after hands are gone.

HP1/DDRDG is still largely using an enhanced version of the Mario Mix engine, scoring and all. Mario Mix had separate scores for gimmicks and no gimmicks and counted every jump as 2 notes. HP1 counts a gimmick note within a jump as being 2 notes as well, but regular jumps are one.

[darknight068]

On Walking on Sunshine, yep that would be a AAA simply due to everything being on, and my guess as to why is because when you think about it that's the default setting of the game. Concerning score requirements, what constitutes that is still a mystery.

As for Love Again, that should be fairly obvious why that's a AA. You stepped on a minimizer, which in turn counts as a miss. Irregardless of the score, that's still technically a miss meaning instant AA.

[darknight068]

They're feet, which when put together counts as a one note jump.

[blueapple128]

Scratch that, I just did it.

Love Again Basic (Friendship Mode), with a final result of 84 Perfects and 1 Miss.

Final Score: 24 million exactly

Grade: AA

Note that there are only 84 steps in the song.

This means that you can pretty much have the maximum score yet not AAA it.

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[blueapple128]

"...where it actually counted _sans gimmicks_..."

Does that mean Walking On Sunshine PFC hands+gimmicks _without_ 70M points = AAA?

Any idea why score requirements are necessary for some songs like this? I don't understand it.

[blueapple128]

How come HP1/DG never requires hands or gimmicks for a PFC?

[blueapple128]

Something I just found out:

It *might* be possible to get an AAA without a true PFC, if and only if:

- Gimmicks are on, and there are Minimizers

- The only Misses/Boos are Minimizer hits

I haven't actually done that, but I went to Training Mode and played 1 measure (3 notes) from a song with Minimizers in.

Attempt 1: 3 Perfects, 0 Misses

Attempt 2: 3 Perfects, 12 Misses from Minimizers only

I got the same score both times, so it could be possible to get max score even by hitting Minimizers.

[blueapple128]

If Gimmicks are Off and Hands are On, do Wild Cards show up as feet or hands?