"A good old-school DDR game"

It's DDR. You know it, you love it (maybe), and if you don't, then why are you reading a review for one of the most obscure DDR games out there?

Anyways, this is basically a port of DDR 2nd ReMix for the Playstation, but with all the songs from DDR 1st Mix (minus Strictly Business), and a few extra preview songs from 3rd Mix.

The songs are all old DDR songs, which means more variety, which is definitely a good thing. Plus, a lot of these songs have never appeared on a home version again.

Since this is DDR 2nd Mix, it uses the old flat arrow style, which can be a little confusing to those used to newer DDR games.

The graphics in this game are massively improved over the Playstation version. You can clearly see that the characters are much more detailed than their Playstation counterparts.

One of the only bad things about this game is the confusing unlock system. Nobody's really bothered to figure it all out, so it's pretty much a matter of luck to unlock everything.

One awesome feature that didn't resurface in later DDR games is unlockable edit data. This version also has a bunch of Dreamcast exclusive edits. It's a shame, though, that all of the edits are ridiculously easy.

There are a couple of downsides to this version, though. One major one is that it's nearly impossible to find a Dreamcast dance pad. Also, they only make soft pads, so if you have a Cobalt Flux, you probably won't want to sacrifice a DC soft pad to make a control box.

Another downside is the lack of a paint mode. Paint mode was used to make custom arrow designs. There are alternate arrow designs, though, a feature that mysteriously disappeared for a while (it's beginning to resurface in the Ultramixes, the Dancing Stage Unleashed's, and, on the PS2, DDR Extreme 2 and DDR Strike), but the cool thing about paint mode was that you could save your custom arrow designs to a memory card and bring them to the arcade and use them there. Which brings us to our final downside...

...there are no arcade DDRs with VMU slots. So, you can't save your arcade scores onto your VMU, you need a Playstation version of the game to do that.

All in all, this is a pretty good DDR game. It has a few downsides, but it's a lot better than it's Playstation counterpart. It doesn't have the massive songlists of later DDR games, but it has a lot of songs that aren't on any other home version. I recommend this if you're really into DDR.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 07/10/06