It's good, but I guess overall it's a step down from 3rdmix. While I am glad to finally be playing an entirely fresh setlist after playing so many songs from 1-3 in best hits, US DDR1, the GB titles, ohasuta, etc, I noticed that the setlist is mostly songs I'm eh on with the occasional turbo banger here and there. I think it's telling that my favorite song in the setlist, Follow the Sun, was actually a song from 3rdmix that got a delayed home version. That being said those handful of other banger tracks do go hard, I just mostly found myself gravitating to the same handful of songs on my 100-song grind to unlock everything. Speaking of unlocks, whereas DDR 3rdmix had tons of song info, bonus gamemodes, and other nonsense to unlock, pretty much the only thing in this game to earn are more songs, which do feel like a step down. I do like the new UI though, Y2K hit DDR like a truck, love to see it. They did add a new challenge mode where you try to clear certain parts of songs under certain criteria, but I couldn't progress much in that some challenges are on the 6-panel mode, which my pad doesn't support. They also reportedly updated the diet mode but I don't really use that mode so I wouldn't know what they added or changed. Overall it's probably not as strong as 2nd or 3rdmix but DDR is still DDR which means it's a good time.

Alas, as spring/summer draw nearer, and the game room temperature rises to the uncomfortably high levels it normally does around that time, combined with the fact that my ol soft foam pad is also in need of some maintenance after so many months of jumping around on it, I might need to go into DDR hibernation soon. We shall see.