I’ve been a DDR player for around 8 or 9 years now. I’m not one of those professional plays-on-two-arcade-machines-at-once kind of gals, but I’m certainly decent. If you’ve read my E3 hands-and-feet-on preview of the Wii version of the upcoming DDR game - you know my dilemma with how the series has changed over time. It’s gone from a tracklist of Eurobeat, hardcore, and Japanese-inspired songs to Britney Spears and Sean Paul songs slowly but surely. That’s when I left the scene… And waited ever so patiently for a return of the music that devoted DanceDanceRevolution players have been waiting for on current-gen consoles and arcades. We’re tired of tap dancing around on the PS2 if we want good music! Luckily I had a chance to try out the upcoming PS3 version of DDR at a Konami preview event in NYC this week which also utilizes the PlayStation Move hardware.

Sneak Preview: The music is back!

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I’ve been a LONG-time fan of the DDR franchise. For years and years my friend’s and I would practice and train rigorously for hours at home so we could play at the arcade every weekend. Good times were had with all the vibrant classic DDR beats from DJ Naoki, RevenG and dj TAKA, but the franchise took a huge wrong left turn and changed to reel in a new audience who weren’t as familiar or ecstatic about the Eurobeat flavor it was offering. Towards the latter end of the PS2 DDR cycle the games started having much less of the music that the hardcore fans were crazy about and instead were given a helping of Britney Spears and Sean Paul. I finally got a chance to give the newest Wii version a shot at E3 (titled merely: Dance Dance Revolution currently, as skeptical as I was about playing with arm movements, but came out impressed when I realized how fun it actually could be.

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