Game Theory: Just Dance Has LORE?!

[Music] foreign Stars again I've been playing all night I've mastered the choreography memorized the song Beat by beat nope I know how am I not getting five stars on this I will get it perfect this time just one more game what's going on what's happening to me stop hello Internet welcome to Game Theory the show that's gonna be okay as long as you Dangs Matt's voice was totally destroyed at VidCon so that means you get head editor Dan today Jericho hit the air horns gee thanks glad we're friends anyway today we're talking about a game that honestly I never thought we'd cover but month after month after month every time we went onto the game theorist subreddit I would always see people asking for a Just Dance lore Theory how how would that even work I mean the clue is in the name you Just Dance sure there have been a lot of injuries in the series and I'm sure they're chock full of little Easter eggs but Easter eggs don't necessarily mean lore unless you're Scott coffin but then again if a random mobile game like merge Mansion can have deep Hidden Lore then why can't a dancing party game and that's when we discovered that the Just Dance developers have hired someone whose job title is get this Lore Master since Matt found out he's been signing his emails as matpat founder CEO loremaster and internet dad but if these guys have gone to the trouble of hiring a Lore Master clearly there is lore to find so Hit Me With Your Best Shot Just Dance let's see what you got for old teen theorists if you don't know what I'm talking about where have you been for the last 14 years are you okay do we need to call someone pretty sure everyone and their grandma has played this game at some kind of gathering or another but regardless Just Dance started out as a mini game from Rayman Raving Rabbids TV party where you mirror the moves of the character you see on screen the mini game was such a hit that it birthed the entire motion-based multiplayer franchise we know today each game includes a collection of songs with their own choreography one minute you're dancing and jiving to Dancing Queen the next you're not talking about Bruno you pretty much have a song for everyone on here they even have YouTuber songs like Tom ska's beep beep I'm a sheep which is a certified Bop but where's the love for classic Pokemon Masters are broken them bills it's like one of the few scripts that I've personally written it would be really cool if they did that maybe in Just Dance 2024 that someone will finally get the love it deserves on the surface it seems like a simple party game and for a long time it was but the most recent game Just Dance 2023 has a narrative driven story mode in it a girl named Sarah is taken from The Real World and brought into the game by this blue skin character in order to stop an evil witch called night Swan who is abducting and taking over the other dancers that show you the moves for each dance known as coaches but that's just the story Ubisoft wants you to see there's a whole world of stories going on in the background while you whip and Nae Nae your way to Superstar ring oh man why don't you make me say these things well a lot of the settings for dances take inspiration from the music videos of the songs you're dancing to the coaches that teach you these dances begin to overlap and tell a more connected story they aren't limited to just their primary song they appear as background characters in other songs and even started to become lead characters across multiple songs and even games the most talked about coaches to follow this trend are the bride and Rasputin which people have decided should be shipped seriously is there nothing the Internet won't ship these days don't answer that in the internet's defense there is good reason for this particular ship in the very first Just Dance game from 2009 a dance coach dressed as a bride dances to Katy Perry's hot and cold which makes sense the original music video did focus on Katy Perry dressed as a bride and just dance 2019. we see this same bride dancing a duet to Maroon 5 sugar with another Just Dance coach the one for Just Dance 2's Rasputin given that the original music video is also of a wedding party that would seem to imply that these two are a thing maybe this is just before the bride calls him out on his hot and cold tendencies All of which culminates in Just Dance 2023 where the opening shot for sweet but a psycho is of a wedding cake with Rasputin and the brightest Toppers however clearly things haven't gone well the bride mimics Ava Mac streaky eyeliner like she's been crying while tearing down photos of them together and Rasputin is nowhere to be seen poor bride she's sweet but a psycho Matt why seriously I can't keep doing these puns but this is just the tip of the Just Dance lore Iceberg this thing gets way deeper and spans way more songs in Just Dances 2021 season 4 trailer we were given a sneak peek of a new story that of the traveler he runs through portals that put him in different locations to chase down this one blue-skinned woman whose name we learn is sihan Nova thanks to a tweet from the developers by the way all these locations are the backgrounds of other dances from previous games and are all from different years he's not just traveling between levels within his own game but between all the dances ever created for Just Dance how are us normal non-time space traveling people supposed to compete with that kind of affection that's just setting unrealistic expectations for the rest of us sadly this relationship wasn't built to last I'm starting to see a theme with all these Just Dance storylines when Just Dance 2022 came out it had the song save your tears where both the traveler and Seahawk dance to a song that gives us some insight into to what happened between Just Dance 2021 season 4 and now the lyrics I don't know why I run away and take me back cause I wanna stay show us that this couple hasn't been together since that fateful meeting that one of them ran away but they now realize it was a mistake I think it's likely the traveler who ran away firstly we know he has a thing about running and has the ability to go literally anywhere but also because of what we see in his solo song Rock Your Body in it we see the Traveler's mansion that appears to have been decorated by M.C Escher he dances around the floating platforms with copies of himself give this guy all the superpowers I guess but at the end of the song The Traveler opens up several portals and each clone walks into one with a traveler himself walking into a portal that leads to the dance levitating and can you guess who the coach for this dance is that's right it's Seahawks seahaw leads the dance to save your tears which ends with the traveler opening a portal for siha and they go their separate ways fortunately unlike the bride and Rasputin this story has a happy ending remember that tweet that gave us siha's name it also reveals she is pregnant clearly these two did a little bit more than just dance if you catch my drip huh another tweet shows a comic strip of the traveler with a blue-skinned child wearing a crown and a belt buckle with the Traveler's symbol which matches the blue guy that brought Sarah into the world of Just Dance 2023. he also has a name by the way he's called Wanderlust and you'd once again only know if you follow the Twitter account I see you guys are taking the JK Rowling approach to lore regardless what this particular story does is open up the lore to be contained not just within the current game wonderlust in Just Dance 2023 is the son of the characters from Just Dance 2022 and his father The Traveler has traveled to dances from Just Dance 2020 2021 and 2022. so what if there's a bigger story going on here when that spans the entire franchise so I picked up my Wiimote and got ready to feel my body burn baby burn as I dance the night away playing through all these different games let me tell you it was worth it the song that caught our attention was Toxic by Britney Spears from Just Dance 2023 because well look at this dance and now imagine Matt doing that dance that's objectively funny the coaches dressed as a flight attendant dancing her way through the plane which is all pretty normal for this series until the chorus kicks in and two guys in black suits aggressively approach the flight attendant forcing her to dance fight back our new flight attendants were trained but I didn't realize martial arts was part of the onboarding process it turns out this is no ordinary flight attendant the coach's name is Agent D which I discovered from Twitter again could you imagine if all games did this lore would be so much easier to solved oh sorry something was caught in the back of my throat I think it was Freddie no don't put that no don't put that in I I hear it now back to the story agent D continues to move through the plane fight some bad guys rescues the Tied Up pilot flies off to the sunset so basically everything you would expect from a dance game this isn't a plane hijacking this is a rescue mission and while the story seems pretty tied up unlike our pilot it actually raises a lot of questions who does agent D work for who do the guys in the suits work for and why was the pilot tied up in the first place fortunately the answer was staring me right in the face thanks to our friend in hot pink the pilot himself the pilot is the coach for a song in Just Dance 2017 and I'm gonna Slaughter this drugstore it's the Numa Numa song and let's quickly move on before YouTube slams us with a copyrights Hammer I see you the song itself is actually sung in Romanian and so if you're able to move past the song virality In Me mobility and actually translate it you start to reveal some information about how the pilot may have landed himself in hot water tied up in the cockpit the first line of the song's first verse I'm so sorry but translated it says hello hello it's me an outlaw and the Numa Numa a in the course literally translates to don't take me don't take me so wait the pilot is an outlaw and agent D has just freed him from what looks like federal agents are the dance coaches the baddies this just raises more questions it turns out we play as criminals semi-regularly throughout the series in Just Dance 4 two coaches are escaping prison in striped outfits in everybody needs somebody in Just Dance 2020 the song policeman shows the coach getting harassed by a policeman and then we have the classic Lady Gaga's telephone in Just Dance 2023. now all of these once again mimic their music video counterparts but it is interesting how often we hear and see coaches being harassed by law enforcement and it's still not clear who is in the right are the coaches actually breaking the law or are we in a footloose style world where dancing is slowly becoming outlawed it's hard to say that is until this random little moment in the middle of telephone all the different Lady Gaga coaches from her different songs are all in a lineup the camera pans out for a brief moment behind the one-way class where a hand reaches out and points to the one in the Senate this person is the one pulling the strings convicting the dance coaches and having them locked up but whether that's a good or bad thing will rely entirely on if we can figure out who that ham belongs to and lucky for us our dance Marathon proved helpful once again there's only one character in the whole dance verse with a clawed hand like this night Swan the villain of the Just Dance 20 2023 story mode she first appears in can't stop the feeling where she is seen abducting other coaches and then in her song which we see her placing them under a spell forcing them to join her Army why it turns out Knight Swan's whole motivation is that she is obsessed with perfection she wants every dance danced perfectly no mistakes no screw-ups how do I know this say it now with me because of Twitter I promise that's the last time I'm gonna say that unless Matt's lying to me this explains everything that we've seen so far Knight Swan is the one in charge in control she's able to mind control whoever she wants making the law enforcement detain whoever isn't dancing perfectly throughout the series and then once they're put in jail she is able to put herself in charge of the prison system and pick out her next set of victims which means that during toxic the guys in suits are working for night Swan they finally caught the outlaw pie pilot and are going to bring him back to night Swan for conversion that means agent D isn't trying to take down the law she's a freedom fighter trying to save those who night Swan wishes to control to create her perfect world all of this leading to a final showdown between Sarah and night Swan where Sarah frees the other coaches and night Swan Retreats defeated feels like a pretty happy ending except night Swan hasn't actually been defeated one we all know if a character doesn't die then the battle's not over and these days even if they do dive it doesn't mean much either thanks Marvel but also let's think about her plan A Little Closer turning dancers into mindless drones that Just Dance more and more getting perfect scores every time doesn't that sound familiar it should because that's exactly what we're doing by playing this game the goal is to dance each dance as well as we can the better we do the more points we get how many times have you lost your cool because you didn't get it just right or because your friend and beat you in the dance meaning you had to try again and again and again that's exactly what night Swan wants we are so focused on the dance moves being just right that we much like the coaches are just mimicking becoming mindless drones doing nothing but dancing over and over and over again just to get that perfect score that my dear theorists is the real story behind Just Dance it's a warning Sarah's story is designed to mimic our own fun fact Sarah in night Swan are actually played by the same actress Sarah's initial timidness while all her friends were playing is because she knows the monster she becomes when playing this game but Wanderlust reminds her of the fun it can be to Just Dance and eventually she overcomes her corrupted self all while meeting a bunch of fun characters along the way each with their own motivations and stories to be told if all you're doing is focusing on getting the dances perfect you'll miss out on these cool details sales we've talked about today the personalities of the characters their Journeys their heart breaks it's all right under our noses but we were all too blinded by our want for Perfection despite playing these games for decades we totally missed the point so the next time your friend invites you to dance along to the latest bot instead of worrying about winning let the devs and their Lore Master tell you a bunch of new and exciting stories invest in these characters and the relationships and most importantly Just Dance not for a high score but for fun but hey that's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching and if you don't want this dance party to stop you can always go and see where Matt's lore Journey began by watching this video on the left it's the GT live where Steph and Matt Play Just Dance 2015. it's funny and cringy in all of the best ways or if you want to find some more lore where no one would expect it you should probably check out this video on the right about the meme game of 2022 trombone champ it's required viewing for Ultron boners just needing to make sure you knew that as always don't forget to subscribe you'll have Matt next week but until then cybered

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Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2023