Story Mode

**Story Mode** is the main mode of Tekken: The Dance Game.

### The Main Story

The main story is the first story mode you encounter after completing the first three prologues, and as you progress in this story, you continue to unravel mysterious aspects, sometimes new characters come up. Completing chapter 7 will unlock the first sub-story.

### Sub-Stories

Sub-Stories, despite their name, are a series of chapters that take place between chapters. There are currently two sub-stories, the first one focuses on Akuma going through various opponents and challenges in order to get to his now-grotesque-evil counterpart, GOUKI-8383H, while the second sub-story focuses on the events during the first seven chapters raided by the Syn-Drones.

#### Sub-Story 1 - Akuma's Destiny

In this Sub-Story, the player follows Akuma (from Tekken 7) into a challenge of many defects, some of them can result in his doom if not timed correctly. This sub-story is unlocked after finishing chapter 7; and it takes place right after chapter 7 of the main Story. Completing sub-chapter 5 in this sub-story unlocks the second sub-story, the Syndromes on Powerups Saga.

#### Sub-Story 2 - The Syndromes on Powerups Saga (The Syndrome Saga)

In this Sub-Story, the player reunites the friends he/she encountered in the first seven chapters of the main story, only to be revealed by the Syn-Drones raiding the first 7 chapters. This sub-story starts after the first sub-story's fifth sub-chapter, and serves as the continuation between the two. After completing the first seven sub-chapters, the story continues the main story chapter 8.

### Nightmare Mode

In Nightmare Mode, the player will follow 100 chapters

## Trivia

* Upon completion of the 10th and final chapter of Akuma's Destiny, "Final Escape or the 17th and final chapter of *The Syndrome Saga"*, the instrumental version of "Your Gift To Me" by Poppin' Party will be heard.
* *Hatred: The Dark Side* / *Project Cross Time Remix* is used on all three story modes.
* The full version of *Hatred: The Dark Side / Project Cross Time Remix* was released on February 21, 2021, and this replaces the 6-minute version that was used for *Akuma's Destiny* and *Syndrome Saga*.
* When the player loads Chapter 20 of the main story, the theme for Kazuya's ending from Tekken 5 will be played. When the player heads straight to the credits, the instrumental version of *You Are The Reason* by Calum Scott and *Dark Matter Suite* by 1f1n1ty will be played.
* The first 7 chapters were used on the main story and *The Syndrome Saga*.
* Dark Matter Suite and By Day, By Night don't appear in all of the Story Modes, because both of those songs are used as in the staff roll credits.
* Completing the Final Boss Mix in *The Main Story* or watching The Final Boss Mix unlocks all PreCure characters.
	+ The end credits' songs in the original Final Boss Mix are listed in order: Sad Romance (Original Ver.), You Are The Reason (Calum Scott, instrumental), Sad Romance (Classical Ver., instrumental version) and Dark Matter Suite (1f1n1ty).
* Completing the Final Boss Mix in *The Nightmare Mode* or watching The Final Boss Mix 2 unlocks all locked characters immediately and the December 27, 2021 Concert.
	+ The end credits' songs are the same as the original version except that the original Sad Romance was replaced by the song, *By Day, By Night* by 1f1n1ty. It is used as the last song during the credits.
* The line, "so you can walk through this endless path" is a reference to the music video, "Twist of Fate" by Jehezukiel.
* The Pump It Up Prime 2 version of Cross Time appeared in Chapter 7 of The Main Story and The Syndrome Saga, while the O2Jam version appeared in Chapter 17 of The Nightmare Story Mode.
* The regular version of PoPiPo is absent in Story Mode, instead using the extended version on both Story Modes.
* The 74th chapter's tempo, when sped up 1.5 times faster, will reference Phase 2 of the final boss music for *New Super Mario Bros. U and U Deluxe*.
	+ Both of these music have the same 186 BPM (Northern Pattern's actual BPM is 124, so if you sped the music up by 1.5, then the resulting tempo will be 186).
* Chapter 98 is revealed to be "Aegleseeker" by Frums and Silentroom on October 15, 2022.
* Chapter 99 has three phases. The first one is the song, the second phase has New Super Mario Bros Wii's final boss phase 2 medley, and the third phase has New Super Mario Bros U's final boss phase 2 theme.
	+ During phase 2 of chapter 99, whenever the boss health is full, the final boss theme will be played at the normal pitch, when down to two-thirds of the healthbar, the theme will shift up one semitone; at one-third of the boss health, the theme will be shifted to one wholetone than the original.