You'll hustle with one Maraca between the top two positions (as with the rest of the game, it doesn't matter which Maraca you use to pull off the move). So what's missing? How about a move that requires you to rapidly sway the Maracas between two of the positions? That, in a single sentence, is what it means to hustle in Samba De Amigo 2000. The normal Samba play requires that you do one of the following: shake your maracas in one of six positions relative to your body (sometimes fast, sometimes slow), or sustain an extended goofball looking pose with the maracas. New to the game is the Hustle maneuver, which complements the rest of the gameplay perfectly. But boy is it worth the price, even for gamers who already own the original! The new Version 2000 of the game, which was just released to Japan (and didn't even make an appearance on the top ten - ugh) and will be released to America in the form of Samba De Amigo 2001 in the Summer of 2001, takes the basics from the original, adds a few new songs and a few new ideas, and charges you 60 bucks for the whole she-bang. I bend lower than I need to for the low shakes, I leap up from a crouch to get the high shakes, I shake the maracas more than necessary - not because I'm cheating, but because I just can't help it. I'm not sure if I'm "Sambaing" per se, but when I play Samba De Amigo, I can't help but get into it. They're dancing, just as the title suggests, and with Samba De Amigo, the same holds true. The best peripheral-based music games encourage players to actually dance as they play, and if you observe the Dance Dance Revolution masters, you'll observe that they're doing a whole lot more with their body than just tapping sections on a pad. Sure, in the few times she played the game's training mode, she rarely got a beat right, but she was having a blast. She sees that I deal with games for a living, and she's just baffled And yet, she decided to give Samba De Amigo a try, without my even forcing her to it. ![]() She has a very unfortunate belief that games are diversions made exclusively for kids.
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