The only if, but, or ackshually, is if you REALLY like anime OSTs and Touhou. That's fair, I like playing Marisa Stole The Precious Thing too.
But otherwise SMX does a very good job of bridging the gaps between old eurodance era DDR, ITG, and songs people under the age of 30 might recognize. It gets regular updates with new songs, like basically once a month for the past few years now. The pads, in theory, handle long term use with less maintenance than traditional DDR pads[Citation Needed], which by the way are still using the same design as they did in 1998. The extra center button is super easy to pick up, the UI is miles better in every way, it doesn't fall to pieces without an online connection or require any of the network related garbo that DDR does.
It's just straight up better. And since most people haven't caught on to that yet, the lines at cons tend to be a lot shorter too!
