this is not a sponsored review, i am doing this because i love games

Lucas and i are always looking for new games that we can play together. i’m always trying to drag him into the newest free mmo that i can find and usually he’s not very willing, but recently i was able to get him to look at mmos with me and to my surprise he agreed to play this with me.

5street is not a normal MMORPG. instead of fighting monsters, joining guilds and winning against a common evil, you uh… dance! yes that’s right… 5street is a dance mmo. its sort of like dance dance revolution but for the PC. you make an avatar, and you proceed to beat the crap out of your arrow keys to dance

i love games like these. you may recall my earlier twotms where i wrote about typemania and tap tap revenge 3… i am a big fan of music games! my poor keyboard takes a lot of punishment from games like this. the special thing about 5street is that it is very couple oriented. you can get married, and do all kinds of cute dance moves together. sadly i have not been able to wrangle lucas into playing long enough for us to be dance partners, but from the pictures i saw, it is disgustingly cute.

i won’t lie, i havne’t spent much time in this game. i’ve been busy with other stuff and it is so very couple oriented that i don’t really want to play it without lucas. the american version of the game plays mostly american pop and hip hop music but i have noticed a few songs in other languages. for some reason they are also still celebrating xmas there… not sure what that’s about.. since its may, and xmas was like… 6 months ago O_o

some things i didn’t enjoy about the game:

• you cannot change your hair colour unless you buy coins. ok i understand the purpose of having a free mmo with purchasable extras, however it kinda sucks that i am stuck as a blond with no way to change my hair to a colour i prefer.
• clothing has time limits. this kinda sucked. want something cute to wear on your avatar? well you can pick 7 days or 30 days for them to own the item. there is an option to own it with no limit but i was unable to select that option no matter what item i attempted to get.
• awkward hand placement. the game at one point wants you to hit the number keys at the top of the keyboard. i had a hard time smacking the right key while trying to pay attention to what i was doing.
• text is cut off in places. i’m not sure why there isn’t a scroll bar but during the tutorial i was unable to read half of the instructions because it just sorta cuts off and gives you no way to continue reading what was left off. this also occurs in other areas as well.

even with these problems i did enjoy the game. it was cute and fun and a music game which i love. i want lucas to play it with me more though and have a goofy cute anime wedding

you can check out 5street for yourself by clicking here!