DDR:MM contains many of the same trappings as previous DDR games. If you’ve played one, you’ve played them all, as ‘they’ say. The big and most obvious different with this one is of course the presentation and the story mode. DDR:MM features seven Mario game-based characters to dance as, with or against. It also features a plethora of Mario-based music with some public domain classical music mixed in as well. I never thought I would be playing DDR to a Mario song, and it feels weird to do so. Having Mario prancing about on screen as if he had been impaled by a giant rainbow and stuffed full of cotton candy and buttercups did not help to easy the uncomfortable feeling I had while dancing along.
Poor Waluigi. To date, this is the only Mario game that he has been placed front and center as the primary antagonist. If playing second fiddle to Wario isn’t bad enough, he has to act menacing in a DDR game? Geez. Next thing you know, he’ll be showing up as a villain in the next iteration of Nintendogs. The story mode in general is pretty thin, but really, it’s more than I expected. Anything more than ‘Pick song. Dance.’ Is more than I expected.
One thing I immediately noticed about this game in comparison to other DDR games is how easy it is. It might be a great starting place for people wanting to get into DDR if it weren’t so hard to find. As a result though, the hardcore DDR fans will find little to interest them here unless they just really want to dance to Mario songs.
Overall is it worth a recommendation? If you are into DDR or Mario then perhaps. Or you could always get a bunch of friends over and mock it.
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