YMMV / StepManiaX

• Awesome Music: As of May 5, 2024, there are 409 free songs to choose from, and 28 optional premium songs. Some of the free songs include:
  • Many classic DanceDanceRevolution crossovers, mainly added to StepManiaX in 2020. A variety of songs from DDR arcade games appear:
    • Pre-Extreme One-Mix Wonders (like "My Generation (Fat Beat Mix), "Flash In The Night", "Bye Bye Baby Balloon", and "Stay")
    • Other pre-Extreme songs (like "Never Gonna Make" and "Young Forever")
    • Extreme exclusives (like "Señorita (Speedy Mix)" and "Speed Over Beethoven")
    • Pre-Extreme songs also available in Extreme (like "Dam Dariram", "Waka Laka", and "Get Up'n Move").
  • While the game took a break from reviving DanceDanceRevolution songs after adding "Get Up'n Move" on November 10, 2021, two DDR 4thMix songs have since appeared: "Night In Motion" on June 25, 2023, and "The 7 Jump" on September 5, 2023. The latter happens to be included with Update #42.
  • The October 2020 update adds "MAX 428", a version of a similarly-named song from the mobile rhythm game SEVEN's CODE, by Naoki. Yes, that Naoki.
  • Songs that appeared in Pump It Up make its way here. Banya's Yahpp appears to update the old classic songs.
• Clumsy Copyright Censorship: MDK's Press Start's video. Parts of the video is shown in the game. However, the removed parts of the original video contains direct references to a Minecraft character and Space Invader alien.
• Dancing Bear: While the game itself is widely regarded as a solid and worthy Spiritual Successor to In the Groove, it's the dance pads that are extremely popular thanks to their pretty lights, very high build quality, and versatility (they support USB and thus can be played with other games, and 5-panel conversion kits that are accurate to Pump It Up's layout, rectangular corner panels and all, are available), and there is an option to buy standalone pads without also having to buy the cabinet. Of course, this means good luck trying to buy the pads, because every time there's a new batch available for purchase, they sell out within minutes.
• Memetic Mutation: "This step artist!"^ExplanationWhen people view the step artist and make various reactions, from happy, laughing, to even angry. Taken up to eleven with step artist names that aren't named after one of the real-life step artsts, making people guess who wrote the chart or what reference it used; this was prominent when one of the step artist names was Zig Zag, a musician that still remains a mystery to the community since the In the Groove days nearly 2 decades ago.
• Pandering to the Base: A lot of songs added in post-launch updates are clearly targeted at fans of classic DanceDanceRevolution games, either being Dancemania licenses ("So Deep"), remasters/remakes thereof ("Music & Police", which is almost exactly like "Rhythm & Police (K.O.G. G3 Mix)"), or new songs by artists known for older DDR songs ("MAX428" by NAOKI).
• Self-Imposed Challenge:
  • Adding mods to make readability challenges or changes to the stepchart that could make the chart harder in patterns.
  • Bracketing (or heel-toe) in songs that have 2 panels that that were originally intended to be jumps. Good for practicing charts that may require bracketing, but not always necessary.
  • Freestyling, or coming up with full-fledged dance routines for the charts. This is even acknowledged by the step artists that even some of the dual charts were taken in account.
  • Playing harder charts without using the back bar, especially on doubles. Good luck with not destroying your body in the process.
• Shocking Moments:
  • Pretty much every DDR veteran had to pick up their jaw from the floor when Naoki Maeda and Paula Terry, the faces of early 2000's DanceDanceRevolution (Naoki being the former sound director who wrote the majority of Konami originals for DDR games up to EXTREME, and Paula providing vocals for his "Hyper Eurobeat" songs), contributed songs to the game. Furthering the shock factor is that Konami had previously sued Roxor (which Kyle Ward was part of) over this game's Spiritual Predecessor In the Groove, making this update feel rather cathartic for ITG fans who were nonplussed when ITG was Screwed by Konami's Lawyers.
  • Pump It Up Players finding out that Yahpp of Banya worked on a couple of re-updates of classic Pump It Up classics.
  • A sudden update that occurred in June, outside of schedule. It was for the song Kick It Man.
  • K-Pop would appear in an American dance game (PIXY) that is not backed by a big company like Konami or Ubisoft. Even better: The official video of the song was used.
• Spiritual Successor: To In the Groove, and Pump It Up Pro — Spin-Off of the franchise developed by Kyle and his team to target international markets as a successor to In the Groove.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Take Me Away by Fracus & Darwin sounds similar to Brain Power by Noma. Coincidentally at the same month, Pump it Up XX released an update that had Brain Power to continue the support of memes.
• That One Attack: Dr.M's slowdown, which is the bane for players wanting to full perfect the song.
• Unexpected Character: While the game was already using well-known Dancemania licenses as a nod to the NAOKI-era DDR games, nobody expected songs by NAOKI himself to be implemented.