Agreed. This post is overly dramatic. Genre fads come and go, and the rhythm-action genre has seen a good long run with very, very little innovation(you could e

Agreed. This post is overly dramatic. Genre fads come and go, and the rhythm-action genre has seen a good long run with very, very little innovation(you could even say "reversal of innovation" given that the current crop of games actually tend to have fewer gameplay features than the Bemani games of seven or eight years ago.) In a few years or so, I'm sure some developer will come up with the answer for reviving the genre. Until then, we have other things to play. It's that simple.