Most of the club stops don’t have special conditions like mission mode in DJ Max Portable 2. You can skip Club Tuto, but Club Cocoon still has two button missions you need to clear to unlock more clubs and eventually songs.

DJ Max Portable: Clazziquai Edition holds your hand through the basics while four mascot characters cheer you on.

Club Tour starts out in Club TuTo and “TuTo” is short for tutorial. I said mostly ignore two button mode because you’re going to see it pop up in Club Tour, DJ Max Portable: Clazziquai Edition’s mission mode equivalent. If you have played a rhythm game, more specifically another DJ Max game, you can mostly ignore two button mode and go straight to five, six, or four button FX which uses the shoulder buttons plus four face buttons. It feels like Pentavision designed two button mode to make DJ Max Portable: Clazziquai Edition accessible for people who haven’t played a rhythm game before. This difficulty level has less notes and less buttons to worry about. DJ Max Portable: Clazziquai Edition simplifies the series a step further with a newly created two button mode.

In general the DJ Max Portable games can get challenging, but if you start out in four button mode they aren’t too bad. It’s the intense stream of notes that gave the DJ Max series a reputation of being, for better or worse, difficult. You press buttons on beat to hit notes, get points, and clear songs. The concept of DJ Max Portable is similar to Guitar Hero and very close to Beatmania. Videos of players rocking six button mode and frantically hitting buttons makes the DJ Max Portable series look intimidating.

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