History YMMV / InTheGroove

* ItsEasySoItSucks: Every song under 10 blocks seems to suffer from this by the fanbase, despite a great deal of them actually being loads of fun.)
** Thus this leads to more and more expert only Nintendo Hard custom songs and packs.

* ThatOneAttack: Determinator Single Expert 12. ''Seventeen arrows per second''.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The [=PC=] version hasn't been legally available for a long time.

* StopHavingFunGuys: Don't bother saying anything about the game if you can't clear double-digit songs.

* ThatOneAttack: The "fade in" modifier on courses, which makes arrows not appear until they're halfway up the screen. While other modifiers such as "alternate" are worse, those ones are accordingly in courses known for having crazy modifiers and lighter steps. "Fade in", on the other hand, appears casually in a lot of the courses, and mean you have half the reaction time you normally do to hit the arrows.
* ThatOneLevel:
** Utopia Single Expert 11. It's okay for the most part, until a third into the song the steps stop making sense for a while. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQKbAyYy0o here]]
** Tell Single Expert 12. It's hated due to the fact it has nearly-impossible to hit jumps.

* ThatOneAttack: Determinator Single Expert 12.

** There's also "Disconnected Disco"

* ItsHardSoItSucks: On the other hand, ITG's catering to the top-scoring crowd and abundance of NintendoHard charts, coupled with a large majority of ITG discussion being amongst higher-end players, means beginner players easily get intimidated from playing.

* FanDumb: "A machine may be ''owned'' by the arcade it resides in, but it ''belongs'' to the ''community''."

* GoodBadBugs: In the r21 patch for [=ITG2=], players can play custom stepfiles, but the song cannot be tagged as being longer than 2 minutes. Emphasis on "tagged"; [[LoopholeAbuse the implementation of the feature read from the music file's metadata to determine length.]] In the updated r23 patch, songs now automatically cut off at around 2 minutes and 30 seconds, regardless.

** Utopia Singles 11. It's okay for the most part, until a third into the song the steps stop making sense for a while. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQKbAyYy0o here]]
** Tell Singles 12. It's hated due to the fact it has nearly-impossible to hit jumps.

* ThatOneAttack: Determinator Single Expert.

* ScrappyLevel: Utopia Expert. It's okay for the most part, until a third into the song the steps stop making sense for a while. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQKbAyYy0o here]]
** Also, Tell Expert. It's hated due to the fact it has nearly-impossible to hit jumps.

** The first game has "Disconnected" for "[=PARANOiA=]", "I Think I Like That Sound" for "Drop Out", "Hand of Time" for "Healing Vision", and "Pandemonium" for "Gamelan de Couple".

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Opinions are divided on this issue)

* ScrappyLevel: Utopia Expert. It's okay for the most part, until a third into the song the step stop making sense for a while. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQKbAyYy0o here]]

* CrowningMomentOfFunny ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixDSEoxig0 800$ BOOM]])
* FanDumb ("A machine may be ''owned'' by the arcade it resides in, but it ''belongs'' to the ''community''.")

* ItsEasySoItSucks (Every song under 10 blocks seems to suffer from this by the fanbase, despite a great deal of them actually being loads of fun.)

* FollowTheLeader: Both ways. In The Groove took the 4-arrow paradigm from [=DDR=] and ran with it, including new features like mines (which were already in Stepmania). Later, Konami added "mines" in their game, though rather than admit it, they made their "mines" lightning bolts that covered all 4 buttons at once, which limited their potential. Konami also started introducing some ridiculously difficult charts for some songs, but with no "bridges" to get there, so getting good enough to beat those charts basically required playing Stepmania or In The Groove.

* GoodBadBugs - In the r21 patch for [=ITG2=], players can play custom stepfiles, but the song cannot be tagged as being longer than 2 minutes. Emphasis on "tagged"; [[LoopholeAbuse the implementation of the feature read from the music file's metadata to determine length.]] In the updated r23 patch, songs now automatically cut off at around 2 minutes and 30 seconds, regardless.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixDSEoxig0 800$ BOOM]] (Both players get the same score in a tournament final, but one player accidentally hits a mine right at the end of the score)

!!Tropes

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (it's a rhythm game, so it's a given.)

* GoodBadBugs - In the r21 patch for [=ITG2=], players can play custom stepfiles, but the song cannot be tagged as being longer than 2 minutes. Emphasis on "tagged"; a little file manipulation can allow you to play songs longer than 2 minutes (though playing [[MarathonLevel exceptionally long songs]] is frowned upon by fellow players and arcade operators).
** In the updated r23 patch, however, this has been fixed; songs now automatically cut off at around 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
* MemeticMutation: KONAMI WILL SUE.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixDSEoxig0 800$ BOOM]]
* ScrappyLevel (Utopia Expert. It's okay for the most part, until a third into the song the step stop making sense for a while. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTQKbAyYy0o here]])

* ThatOneBoss (Essentially every song that [=ZiGZaG=] made were That One Bosses)
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks (opinions are divided on this issue)

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks (opinions are divided on this issue)