There is no shortage of truly innovative products that could have been featured.Īfter all this, after the entire genre and its player base has fought long and hard to reach some sort of recognition outside of Japan, what did we get? A fan-produced simulator of DDR that no doubt is popular simply because you can download it and any content any random person created for free.įan-made offshoots like StepMania would never have even existed if not for the pioneers of the genre creating the gameplay design it shamelessly rips off in the first place. It's an incredible genre with huge diversity, with not only Konami (who still develop rhythm games despite having abandoned seemingly everything else) holding the torch but Sega, Taito, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Andamiro, and many others consistently contributing new titles every year. The most storied franchises had their start in the 1990s and are still going today. Rhythm games have an incredibly long and rich history in Japan. I wasn't going to say anything, but it keeps getting brought up and I don't feel any better about it after yesterday, so.Īs a long time rhythm game player, everything about the StepMania Showcase feels like a slap in the face.
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