Back in the day my family got me a PSOne that came bundled with a dancing mat but no DDR to be seen (that store really wanted to get rid of their ps1 accessory stock to make space for more PS2s lol), tho I eventually got my hands on 5thMIX. It was my introduction to rhythm games and a general aesthetic that I still think very highly of even 20+ years later, both ui design and character design (5thMIX Emi may have been my first videogame crush). I played it with my family all the time, my older brother also had a dancing mat so we could go at it together and it was great. I never got to play the arcade version so I could have been missing out on a lot of stuff and I'll never know, but honestly who cares, even as it is, the PS1 version of this game remains very important to me.

Reviewed on Nov 04, 2023


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