Space Channel 5 (Dreamcast)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 06/02/2000
• Updated on: 05/17/2006
• Released on: 06/04/2000
• Originally published on GameSpot: Space Channel 5 (Dreamcast) Review

If there were a GameSpot rating score for style, Space Channel 5 would be off the chart. Space Channel 5 absolutely oozes with style from beginning to end, and even though a bit of the game's charm has been lost in the translation from Japanese to English, it's still an interesting, yet criminally simplistic game.

Ulala is a reporter for the TV station Space Channel 5. Using her own brand of gonzo journalism, she'll broadcast her show, Ulala's Swinging Report Show, to the universe while trying to stop an invasion of dancing aliens known as the Morolians. In order to succeed, you'll have to outdance the Morolians (not to mention a few of your broadcast-journalist competition) in the most complex-looking clone of Simon you'll ever see.

The game basically boils down to Ulala walking from level to level, dancing against the little aliens in order to free humans from the Morolian's hypnotic grasp. As she does this, she rounds up an enormous dance posse. The size of your posse depends on how well you do. While larger dance posses caused a great deal of dropped frames in the Japanese release, this isn't nearly as much of an issue in the US version of the game. At the end of every level you'll encounter some huge boss, but this usually doesn't change the gameplay very much, if at all.

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