Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME2 Song List

0:00- Intro

1:00- Default Songs

3:04- New Songs

6:05- Returning Songs

6:39- Challenge-Only Remixes

7:06- Boss Songs

Release Date: September 27, 2005

Here's some fun trivia: in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days movie, there's an SN2 arcade cabinet that's actually running this game on it!

This game feels like a huge upgrade to the previous title in damn near every way. The clunkier interface got overhauled into something that still feels familiar, yet unique. Marvelous timing can now be enabled in the menu settings. Songs now all have their own, completely unique, background videos, many of which will be integrated in SN.

The song list itself is fantastic. Besides the usual mainstream licenses, EXT2 also brings in some really good Dancemania licenses, including the only E-ROTIC song that got in the US games(admittedly, its their "tamest" one). As for the core list, it's mostly made up of MAX2, and EXTREME, and many of the CS songs seen in SuperNOVA. A really cool detail is that some songs from Ultramix 1 also have their Festival charts tacked on for their Challenge difficulty. I'm a sucker for the Challenge remixes in any capacity, so you know my opinion there. I'd say the only real letdown for this list is that both boss slots are taken up by Paranoia Survivor. Would it have been that hard to keep MAX and put anything else instead of the original?

With all my praises, I still can't help but imagine if Konami had combined the list between both games while keeping the original Extreme's UI. Now THAT would've been a hell of a port! But we all know what happened, and I still love this mix to death. It's right behind JP MAX2 for my favorite PS2 DDR game.