I completely agree with him. I'm a bemani fan in general and like Beatmania IIDX quite a bit. A friend of mine bought DJ Hero and was eager to show it to me. I

I completely agree with him. I'm a bemani fan in general and like Beatmania IIDX quite a bit. A friend of mine bought DJ Hero and was eager to show it to me. I was confused playing it for the first 10 minutes or so. Awkward playing it for the first hour or so. I figured it out, but the disconnect is certainly there. Beatmania (especially IIDX) offers all the flair and style of DJ'ing without that disconnect. It's a really simple game conceptually (in fact, Guitar Hero is almost the exact same game). IIDX has been massively successful (granted, in Japan only). Had Konami tried to make Beatmania like actual DJ'ing, it would have flopped too (and since it was literally the first ever music game, that would have been an interesting alternate history).