honestly i remember when just dance 2015 came out, and the fact that it's now considered an "old just dance game" is insane to me

The thing that sucks about new just dance is the game modes being stripped

I actually love older songs in Just Dance, since in my opinion most popular songs nowadays are awful, so seeing songs like Temperature and Without Me get into 2021 made me very happy. Plus, having unknown artists in the series can help launch their careers. My only issue with the soundtracks nowadays is that there are hundreds of wonderful artists who still have yet to appear in the series, and for what? So Ariana or Blackpink can get their millionth song in the series? I don’t even like KPop and there are so many Kpop artists that haven’t even been given a chance to appear in the series! The soundtrack is really all I ever care about anymore for Just Dance, since the music used in a rhythm game is very important. If the song sucks you can’t really enjoy the level *cough* 7 rings *cough* Do I miss the other modes? Other than mashups, absolutely, and I do agree their absence drags the series down. But I will disagree with Party Master Mode since the Wii U isn’t used anymore, that probably would have gone away in 2020 anyway. As mentioned though, all I care about now is a good soundtrack, and nowadays for Just Dance, for every good song, there’s about 3 bad ones. I just hope they can turn that around with 2022, since what we have so far of the soundtrack looks promising.

Okay, I'm gonna be honest and comment all of the points here, so big text allert. 1- Songs The diversity of songs are actually something great! I know most of the time ppl never heard of any of them but f it, some of them became part of my playlist at the second I heard them! Like Adeyyo, Soy Yo and New World. It's important the diversity so we can diversify ourselfs, listen to new styles and artits. I mean, only after I heard China that I discover that I love Latin Music. I'd love to have more popular music? of course, but F it, we can have both! Diversy music AND United States Pop music. 2- Game modes I agree, I miss a lot mash ups and battles. 3- Childish Well, yeah, there is a lot of childish maps, but are actually just a few per game, and aren't even in the bests songs so we can just ignore them. And some times this can make a good map, like What Does The Fox Say, just like somebody mentioned bellow. So yeah, Some times (most of them) is bad, but some times is good. It's just a matter of the dev's choose carefully what thy're doing. 4- Nostalgia This one is actually not fair at all. Acording to my nostalgia JD 4 is the best JD ever, because it's were my first game EVER, and the one that got me my first Xbox. But I know for a fact that the JD 2014 is the best of the franchise for a lot of points. So this one is just not fair. 5- Boring Yeah, the lack of new features are something that works for the worst. And the dances itselfs were pretty repetitive for like 2017 until 2019, but now I really think that the new coreographies are really agitaded. Just the old game modes back and I'm sure it will not be a little boring anymore.

To be fair, there are a lot of DLC songs in the Just Dance 4 list in the beginning of the video. Also, there are a lot of pretty risqué songs in Just Dance 2021 (Say So is a great example of that) and the JD2022 trailers we have right now seem to indicate it will continue (Level Up and Run the World have pretty great, adult choreos).

Just Dance is like the NASCAR of video games. They're changing a lot of things to try to attract new players while catching the scorn of their most dedicated fans.

And this is why I’m never selling my old just dance games!

JD16 is the most underrated game. It served game-modes, good choreos, beautiful maps and a great song-list but everyone hates on it especially in tier list videos 9 times out of 10 it is in bottom 5. And I love the HUD/Menu I think the galaxy them is cute and I’m glad it is coming back in JD22.

I think that Ubisofts spends most of the budget on getting the rights to kpop songs. This is why they can’t afford to get the more popular songs. Ubisoft should just have 1 kpop song in the main game with an extreme and then 1 as an unlimited exclusive. Plus they paid extra to get the rights to use the official choreography for feel special extreme. It seems like they are focusing on kpop more than actual good songs

In my opinion, I like that they are doing more variety of songs than mainly popular ones since not everyone enjoys "popular" or "iconic" songs and they might not be popular in different areas around the world. Using a variety of songs from popular songs to old songs to hidden gems and more will make it so there is a higher chance to have at least one song suit or be enjoyed by a good amount of people. but I can also see why people can disagree with this

I’m afraid we will never get back these awesome things from the older just dance games: The clapping at the end of every song Dance mashups Extreme versions Solo Medleys Duet Medleys Dance Crew Medleys The floating speakers on the sides of the screen that say x, ok, good, perfect, and yeah

I like the fact that old just dance songs didn’t have a lot of camera movements and it was mostly still. When I try to dance to new ones, they make me dizzy due to the camera movements.

Best Just Dance Games Would be JD3, JD4, JD2014, JD2017

Honestly, I completely agree with your points. I think to tie it all up, JD is being completely individualized of learning dances instead of having the fun modes to learn them with your family. It feels like JD hasn’t become family-friendly to pick up and play anymore which kinda sucks.

I wish we had more variety in the songs, like more slow ones, and i wish choreos weren't always easy, something like Drum Go Dum is a very good example cz it's an extreme and doesn't have an alt, i wish we had more of that

Just dance 2014 is my first JD game and the first two songs I played were She wolf (falling into pieces) and Feel this moment

Just dance 4 was the best jd ever 😩

I agree. Specially with the variety of songs in the older versions. Now most games have in majority party songs, but we used to have songs that weren't so excitement-oriented before and it was just as fun. But I think my main issue is the backgrounds. Back then we have flashy backgrounds as well, but the dancer was definitely bolded no matter the animation. Now the background has so many animation and colors that it's difficult to concentrate on the dancer T.T

In the newer Just Dance games this is what I wanna see.. -maybe add dark mode and light mode -have more gamemodes -less childish songs -add songs ppl actually like and listen to and not some random ones

Hopefully they will suprise Just Dance 2022 with a better look and not disappoint us

THIS is why I didn't get JD2021. I recently took up playing JD again, and I started to like older games like 4 and 2014 the best (my other favorites are 2017 and 2016) and dislike games like 2019 and 2020. Even 2018 (which I used to love) got boring and repetitive. Also, I MISS HATSUNE MIKU. I have hope for 2022, but I'll just have to wait and see.

JD1&2 - The Start JD3-15 - The golden era of JD (imo i don’t like 15) JD16 - The start of the downfall (the game is good tho) JD17-21 - do i need to explain? JD22 - hopefully the start of good things since 22 is low key better than 17-21 (don’t come @ me!)

I have really good memories with Just Dance 2015, because me and my bff played it a lot when we were 7-8 years old. Our favorite dances was ofc Frozen, The man and cactus, The fox and Tetris😂

I have no opinions about the old Just Dance games cause I only got JD 2020 and 2021. But I do have some pros and cons of those 2 games. JD 2020- Pros: In the WDF, they have Song votes, Team Battles, Tournaments and Limited time boss battles which can be useful for unlocking more avatars and the All-Star mode is just like time travel back to the 1st game which I thought it was pretty cool Cons: Has 2 childish songs that I don't like 'Baby Shark' and 'Bassa Babba' and 'Fancy' by TWICE didn't use the move from actual choreography. JD 2021: They use moves from the actual choreography like "Feel Special" by TWICE, "Monster" by EXO and "Come Back Home" by 2NE1 and you can get all of the avatars in all of the main 2021 songs Cons: WDF is a massive let down for this game it just pure tournaments and that's it 😢 and Quick play mode only has 1 purpose and that is get an Alias, "Just one more dance" and that's it 😢 Let's just hope JD 2022 will have less cons and more pros.🤞

For the reasons you gave my favorite Just Dance is 2017, as it includes all the good things of the ancients (with the exception of a few things) and for me it was the last "good" game.

I think ubisoft saw that people liked more watching the dances in youtube than buying the games so they started to put low copyright songs in their games to safe money, it's my theory

I thought I was the only one that liked old JD games I’m glad people recognize they’re better too BRO THE KAPS CHARACTERS CHOREOGRAPHIES EVERYTHING THE MUSICC

4:19 Hey! But also jd1 and jd2 are great games! With a lot of great modes (Simon says, the lifes mode of jd1, sweat mode, this was added for the first time in jd2) and excellent coreos (toxic, sos, maniac, funplex, proud Mary, moving on up, jerk it out, cotton eye joe, ETC, ETC) They also have a lot of people that say that jd1 or jd2 are they favorite game Like me :)

For me, the biggest problem is the difficulty. I know that easy songs have to be easy, but easy ≠ repetitive. It's getting really boring. My biggest example of this is Fancy by TWICE. The song is great, but the same moves repeating for 8 times is not that great lmao. Also, 7 rings (normal version), kill this Love (normal version) and many more are examples of it.

well this aged LMAO

I guess I’m a 3 year old as I love the kids mode songs 😂😂😂😂😂

What I hate most about the newest ones is how all the most fun ones and older ones are locked behind the Just Dance Unlimited paywall. It's so annoying because I find a map I love so much with a song I love so much only to realise I can't play them because of Unlimited

So excited Waxy! This will be super cool!

Yeah I remember when I bought older games I would spend hours and hours on them but now I usually play each song a couple times and get bored. And when I do play the newer games I usually dance to older songs on Just Dance Unlimited because they seem more fun :/ I think maybe they need new choreographers or something because a lot of newer songs feel too repetitive and not as fun as they used to be.

This is just me, but I literally noticed only a few of those reasons like game modes and nostalgia until watching this😂...I do agree with the majority of these opinions though, like I totally want all of the old game modes back, etc. Great video Waxy!

I miss the battles so much😭😭😭

him when he sees jd23: *uhm chile anyway so,*

Omg I’m so excited.

Land of 1000 dances is one of my favourites 😂😂

Childish maps are not a new thing to the Just Dance series. There were still childish maps in the old games too.

See I think party masters,mashups and battles should come back and more song like TGIF with returning old coaches

I agree with you I just don’t like how after JD22 everything changed now it’s only on Nintendo and phone , and it’s so complicated to get onto a single game now like… I kinda miss the old one too.

I agree with everything! I loved the video and I must talk that even I'm sick of JUST DANCE hahahaha

Maybe it’s just me, but Just Dance 1-3 has such a great atheistic to them. They were so simple and charming. The new ones look cool, but they look really generic and distract from the actual dancing.

I love the JD4 UI, but 2023 and even 2022 are getting better,

just dance 4 and 2014 and 2015 and 2016 were the best tbh

I loved the visuals for the backgrounds in just dance 2016 honestly

About songs that aren't popular i want say, that in Just Dance 4 list you included DLC songs and old songs. So if we add Unlimited to Just Dance 2021,we have also Tusa, Stupid Love, Monster, Head & Heart, Come Back Home, this duo from season 2 and from base game Adore you, Uno, Till The worlds end, Bailando, Without me, you got a friend in me, Samba de Janeiro, Temperature, All the good girls go to hell, in the navy, that shows that we have a lot of well know songs.

I definitely disagree with some of these. I feel like the childish claim isn't super accurate since you showed clips from 2014 and 2015, which also have childish songs like In the Summertime, Mahna Mahna, Speedy Gonzales, I Love It alt., What Does the Fox Say alt., Tetris, etc. Also the motive behind kids mode I find really sweet, to let kids enjoy dancing and sorta learn at the same time. Plus, it allows them to grow up with the game - also gives them a Just Dance without having to set aside a whole budget for another JDKids game. The World Dance Floor this year is what I attribute the most to everyone's burnout nowadays. It's not fun, just frustrating and boring. If 2022 has all the same issues I feel it might be the end for a lot of the community.

2:03 'Without me' classic childish!!! Hmmm, I gotta disagree with you on that one. I adore how that one was performed, acted and designed. It for me is the most compelling routine I've ever danced to and I've been playing since JD2. The storytelling is phenomenal, the characterisation is EPIC, the song was a massive yet pleasant surprise and the routine wasn't even that repetitive as each verse delved into the character of each coach. (These are some of the reasons why it is my favourite JD map of all time!!!)

I rlly love the 2019 one mosy

I really like just dance but for me it's not getting boring because I love just Dance

Just Dance 1-18 are my favorites, as soon as they released 2019, it’s just gotten so bad

i personally don’t like how they’re adding constant lore to the new games. it was cool when it was just the bride and rasputin but now it’s just ridiculous. i’m not matpat. i want to dance.

I feel like they just pick like 3 kpop songs ( which i love as a kpop listener), whatever songs are popular on Tiktok , and whatever they can get the ok to do. I feel like Just Dance needs to make Just Dance kids mode it's own game again like did they did before.

I like new dances in their own way of being so difficult but different but it's just very fancy

If only all star mode was also in the newer games like 2021 and 2022

Don't forget that Ubisoft spends their entire budget on the maps/coaches/backgrounds/outfits and just slaps it on the same menu every year.

Yes I am so excited for this to begin, it will be very ✨exquisite✨

I am always hype for new just dance.

You read my mind!!! Which make that infinite percent perfect!!! The old Just dance games are the best. Plus agree on every part

I agree with a lot of your points, but i love the chilidish dances 😂

This is the main reason I stopped getting a new Just Dance every year; the last one I ever got was Just Dance 2019. Because 9 times out of 10, it’ll probably just be the same as last year. In each new game there will be some songs that I like, however it’ll probably be underwhelming with the choreos and maps.

The best moment was when you had your birthday and got dlc for just dance 4, I’m guessing, I didn’t get a console until I was 6. Which was in 2018

Lately I find myself playing older songs, (Which is not often because I don’t play Just Dance often), My most recently played song Is Teenage Dream, An old song, I also tried Birthday again because on my actual birthday I wanted to do it but when I tried it a few days before my birthday, I learned the detection on Birthday wasn’t working as it should, I was doing the moves perfectly fine but I kept getting “Super, Good, Ok”, When I tried it again in 2021 The detection was, as expected, still not working correctly (This is on Nintendo Switch btw), But I still got SuperStar so I’m okay with it I like Kulikitaka by the way, It’s cute, I don’t find the coach to fit the song very well, but it’s cute

Pls the gasping gets me everytime

Also i think why there are way more "childish" is because 2021 is now getting kids attention like rich girl is very grown but do you think that ubisoft would add a map like that if they knew children were playing it???

The sad part is that this is gets more true as the new games come along I even stopped playing JD after owning every single one

2022 is freaking good

I missed out all the past games my first game was 2020:)

On just dance 2020 I loved the modes in the world dance floor

i like the kids mode for one reason : my little sister who is a toddler loves to dance but the regular dances are to hard for her so I always play kids mode with her anytime she wants to play. she loves the childish dancers and dances so that’s why I’m happy they made it

Little did bro know just dance would be even worse after this

I always remember the days where i would go to one of my friends' house while my mom was out for work (i was 7 years old i think) and i would play Just Dance 2014 on their Xbox 360. Those were the days man.. Nowdays, i feel like Just Dance isn't the same cool and banger game from before, like, it just died for me. The only ones i like that much are from JD3 to JD2018 (kinda like JD1 and JD2 obviously and also do like JD2019 a lil bit cuz of some of the songs were interesting for me) but from JD2020 to newer JD games... ugh bro, everything on the newer ones is just wrong for me 💀 Anyways, nice video! You made me remind of the nostalgia i had.

I do prefer older games but I also like the newer games. My opinion, 2021, after a while, I was pissed that the wdf was only tournaments, and if I was in the mood to play other year dance floors, I only have a wii and a switch, so no going further back than 2017, but I'm kinda glad bosses aren't a thing anymore because they're so rare you probably won't get the avatar. I also felt dumb trying to play these childish maps over and over again just to megastar. And once I found out what freeplay mode was, I was pretty mad, they could of done better. 2020, once again, too childish, never could get all of the songs megastared, don't really have much to say other than I like all star mode, the best mode we've gotten within the past few years. 2019, like the songs, sad there's not many modes, 2018, sad they got rid of most of the modes, they added kids mode but that's where the childish map horror began. All the games before 2018, good nostalgia, could say the same with the others, good maps, nice choreos, some of my favorite songs. So my overall opinion, new games are fine but older games have a different feel that I prefer, but that's my opinion.

"jUsT dAnCe iS bErI cHiLdiSh 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭"

Categories I agree with: Songs: Honestly, I actually like some of the songs that nobody knows. Joone Khodet is honestly underrated but some songs like Milosc W Zakopanem are just awful, so I agree but I don’t at the same time Game Modes: I 100% agree on this. Kids Mode is back and NOBODY CARES! Quick Play is actually worse than Kids Mode in my opinion because it’s just normal Just Dance but you can’t choose your songs. This is why I stopped playing Just Dance 2021 for a long time because there weren’t any modes that were fun. I never touched Just Dance until Just Dance 2022 was announced. I feel like they shouldn’t have changed World Dance Floor. This is why I only play Just Dance 2020’s World Dance Floor. Childish: To be fair, older games did have childish maps, but so many in newer games. Just Dance 2021 and 2019 are great examples. I can agree on this one Nostalgia: Obviously I agree. Just Dance 4 was my first Just Dance game. It’s still my favourite Just Dance game. I remember getting all of my tasks *dance quests* done on Never Gonna Give You Up (yes). The first song I ever danced to was What Makes You Beautiful. I do remember missing out on pretty much the entire Just Dance 2020 demo because I didn’t know how to get Old Town Road, Talk, and Let’s Groove. That’s about it though. Boring/Repetitive: See Game Modes

I quite enjoy 2020 and 2022 i agree with 2021,2017,2018,2019 being childish and what not like 2021 arguabley was the worst year yet honestly 2022 Has Left the childish topic with alot more songs that include swearing on clean Example Mood Good 4 U Build A _____ Boss Witch (Change Of Lyrics) Happier Than Ever And More Good To See Their Saying Goodbye To The Childish Side And Move All That To Kids Gamemode

i agree becuse that i remember the first just dance game i got was just dance 2017 and its community remix was AMAZING but now it feels like just dance 2019 to 2022 don't have their own themes its just the same ol' plain white

i understand why party master was removed but i miss mashups so much

Just Dance 2021's tracklist is bad... but Just Dance 2022 did get better tracklist.

One thing I do miss is the unlimited avatars, in 2016/2017 and Now have like really detailed avatars

I see a lot of people in comment section expecting JD 2022 to be better than previous games, so let me crush your expectations straight away: we will get the same game with same UI, same game modes, same childish maps and everyone will be playing this new game for 2 months and then it will get boring just like every single year since 2019. Everything I've mentioned above was already leaked. Oh yeah, and can we talk about top tier Xbox players getting their account banned for being too good in JD 2021? Overall, this series became horrible in 2019 and it still is. I understand why people quitting the game. It's just not fun anymore. No modes, no UI changes, no World Cup. Nothing. Just Songs. Song, songs and songs. Anyways, I'm happy that there are still people who understand why older JDs were better. Great video, Waxy

you didn't really specify why the team behind just dance shouldn't be blamed for adding international songs, but i'm so damn sure it's because people overtime would complain about the game precisely for not having international tracks available😭😭 sometimes its just the urge to complain yk

I'm hopping we'll get mashups back in the futur.

This is so true,Except seeing older songs from the 2010s decade like Til the world ends was nice,I like older songs better but this is so true and honest

I agree so much!!

For me, just dance 2019 is a great game and I squeezed it out a lot after my absence since after Just Dance 4. The bad thing that just dance 2020 arrived and suddenly I lost interest again. I took the one from 2021, but I did not save the saga for me and I have decided not to buy the just dance 2022 onwards

I just hope the 2023 Just Dance will outperform the 2021 and 2022 overall, all of them, either past or current, are good and I liked them. But also the removal of game modes was bugging us a lot and removing the shop to replace it for unlimited makes sense. Obviously I don't have copies of the older and current ones (only 2016 and 2017 I have) but overall I don't really care if they do get worse

About the first one, all the new songs are more expensive to use in the game which makes it harder to get new songs that are good. Back then songs were kinda chill and stuff

I have never had any of the older games other than JD2015 but I played it just once. I can even say that the older games are better with the songlists since I really love Just Dance 4-2014's playlists. I like how Just Dance is taking more lesser known songs and putting them on the game but sometimes the songs aren't the greatest. As I've heard that the game modes were fun and I would be really hapoy if Ubisoft started adding game modes again so the game wouldn't get boring as quickly as it does now.

The first 9 just dance games are awesome

My second favorite nostalgia is play gentleman vs fine China and my most favorite nostalgia is buying don’t you worry child DLC on JD 2014

I got in Just Dance in 2019, it was my first game (have played 2017 at a friend before) and I was obsessed like played everyday, talked about it in school, it was my everything, I went for trophies and all. I asked for previous games, so I have more, I obviously have a jdu pass too. When they announce 2020 I wasn't really happy with the song list, but still bought the game and I've grown to like it. But 2021 was a huge disappointment, I bought it the day it came out, but I just couldn't enjoy it, and I haven't played for idek how long. I miss playing jd but I have zero motivation and I'm looking forward for 2022... I agree with everything you said!

I agree. As much as ubisoft is trying hard to make their fans enjoy their game, the people that played them since around the early 2010s including myself, I've been so addicted to those games because of the songs, game modes and most of the maps are not childish and only like 1 or 2 of them do. In my opinion, I liked Ubisoft's work back in the good old days, not much of the newer days because I think they are being too lazy and a bit picky when it comes to people wanting the game to change and make the fans more happy. After jd2020 I kinda stopped caring about just dance because it's starting to get boring. I just wish that ubisoft kept making the game change as much as they can besides adding new maps and make people spending more money on the same game with the same songs that you can already play from the older games. As much as I'm being too picky with what ubisoft is doing right now I'm not gonna continue with their newer games because of the same reasons as yours.

not to mention on the newer wdf you don’t even unlock avatars after dancing to the song

I just like the old just dance games since there are mods for the wii and others to add the new just dance playlist to the wii and Wii U version

I can't wait for this I'm excited

Just dance 1 - 2019 were at their prime And also songs like happy, call me maybe, ETC were good Now we got boring just dance games when I can find someone that made a fan made which is way better!

I agree with you on every word you said 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻