I don't hate it but it's pretty boring for a top-100 game. Owned one for 4 years and after a while I only played it to hear the good music, see the lightshow and see if I could max the bonus for the cool countdown. Rules are worse than many solid-state games, let alone DMDs.

I agree.. give me hockey any day.. basically soccer sped-up and condensed down to the good parts, with more entropy and entertainment.

Okay I'm gonna have to defend jpop a little, at least on this game: it was DESIGNED FOR BEGINNERS. The rules are purposefully shallow and easy. The game flyer points this out. He designed the game WMS was asking for and did a reasonably competent job at it. The game is boring for experienced players by design.

There's certainly enough on the playfield for someone to PROC a much better ruleset.