I'm thinking about perhaps taking a look-see at R1 today, if I can manage it after dinner (we'll see though, dance games and tonkotsu ramen maybe not the best combo).

I'm ostensibly mainly going there to hang out and meet people (hah!) but no, I mean really the pretense is going to check out Pump It Up and DDR.  I refreshed myself on the PIU interface / codes and noticed that the location seems to have "DDR World" so I looked it up and....oh god, what happened?

 

Unfortunately, we've got yet another game lost to the madness that is terrible overcomplicated UI.  Several threads have already been made on how unintuitive this is; I'm sure glad that I looked up the info/infographic on this beforehand because I'm not sure how I would ever decipher any of this on the fly in 50 seconds.  The UI literally seems as if it's designed with "traps" to foil you from getting where you want.

Select one of the "folders" of genred music?  Oops!  Now you can only play beginner or basic difficulties.  Want to see all of the music available in the game?  Well, picking the button labeled "ALL MUSIC"......doesn't show you all of the music.  Aiye..........

What was wrong with the interface that we had before.......?