Walt Disney's Dance Central

Walt Disney's Dance Central is a music-and-rhythm video game, and a spin-off title of the Dance Central series. The game's concept, characters and soundtrack is completely based on songs from Walt Disney productions, films, shows and other media. It is created by TheConservativeYoshi and developed by Harmonix Music Systems in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios. It's released exclusively for the Xbox One Kinect.

Gameplay
Similar to the concept of the original Dance Central games, players must follow and copy their character's movements in various venues; doing so successfully will grant them points and stars. On the right side of the screen are flashcards that ascend, displaying moves that the character is performing. A television-like frame that hangs in the middle of the right side represents the current move that they are enacting. Just like the original games, there are types of critiques for every move via the ring on the ground that surrounds the character. Instead of the usual "X", "Almost", "Nice!" and "Flawless!!!", it is now "Miss...", Almost", "Great!", and "Amazing!!"; when successfully earning a consecutive amount of Amazings, the entire venue will dim down while flashing lights and boundaries surround the character(s) signifying a "peak mode" that cannot be interrupted as long as the player can score consecutive Greats and Amazings. Earning an Almost or a Miss during the peak mode will have the venue return back to normal while a slight audio muffle occurs. Receiving positive critiques during the venue's dull state can return its vividness back to normal. A maximum of 5 stars can be obtained during a routine; if a player performs well enough past that mark, the stars can be turned into gold, signifying an excellent performance.

Story
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Characters
The on-disc roster has a total of 30 characters that vary between 19 different Walt Disney franchises, three times the amount of characters that were on the original Dance Central. Fourteen characters are already obtained at the start (four being original Disney franchise representatives, while the other ten range from different franchises), while the other characters can be unlocked either by clearing the level that they're on in Story Mode, or by obtaining enough stars per cycle in Perform It! with the available tracks. Unlike all of the original Dance Central titles, however, every character does not have alternate outfits for the player to choose from. Due to certain difficulties between certain franchises because of canonical restraints (i.e. humans not being allowed in the Monsters ' world, Toy Story characters not being allowed to be sentient in front of humans, etc.), each venue gives a character a pre-selected appearance/outfit to their liking to fit within the venue's atmosphere to add leniency to the selections. This can be changed in the Options, whether or not the player wants to allow that to happen or have the characters keep their default outfits. Selecting the latter will not only have them lose access to characters' alternate appearances, but also limit the choices of certain venues when selecting specific characters to stay in line with canonical boundaries. Only a handful of characters have only one outfit by default and barely/don't change appearance no matter the venue.

Secret Characters
The remaining two characters are deemed as secrets; they can be unlocked in certain ways, both of them must be completed on either difficulty of Medium or Hard: the former can be unlocked by clearing the entire Story Mode, while the latter can be unlocked by either obtaining 5 stars on every song on the on-disc soundtrack or gold stars on 30 (Hard)/40 (Medium) tracks, whichever achievement is reached first.

DLC
There are a total of 16 characters that can be purchased and downloaded. This entry in the Dance Central series is the first to involve characters as a part of its downloadable content. Overall, the roster features 46 playable characters through numerous Disney franchises when entirely obtained. Just like the characters that are available on disc, the majority of the DLC roster's wardrobes change depending on the venue, and only a handful of characters will not be able to. † These specific dancers, fiction portrayal or nonfiction, are included as tributes to events concerning their real-life deaths.

Venues
There are a total of 21 on-disc venues that characters can perform in. Ten are available from the start while the other 11 venues are unlocked either by clearing the level that the venue takes place on in Story Mode, or by obtaining enough stars per cycle in either Perform It! or Story Mode with the available tracks.

Soundtrack
There are a total of 60 songs in the original build of the game, a rather lengthly step up from previous entries in the Dance Central series.

DLC
Players also have the opportunity to purchase additional songs as DLC, or downloadable content. There are 11 DLC packs in total; unlike the other DLC packs, the first one is a free Bonus Pack that contains an extension to an already featured Disney franchise. Each of the first seven packs feature two songs and a venue from and inspired by original Disney movies and pictures, while each of the final three special packs feature three hit songs from prominent pop artists who were amongst the most popular features in Radio Disney history. Overall, there are 25 downloadable songs in total, bringing the grand total to 85 available songs in the entire game's soundtrack.

Reception
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Trivia
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