The Anime Dance-Off games are from publisher EpiXR games, makers of such wastes of time as the Aery series and Paper Flight series that you regularly see on console storefronts and skip over. The Anime Dance-Off series is three games strong now with Anime Dance-Off Around the World, Anime Dance-Off Ghost Party, and Anime Dance-Off Party Total. They are on Nintendo Switch as well as PlayStation and Xbox. It's worth noting that the Playstation and Xbox versions are cheaper than Switch - $5 instead of $10 - and while the Playstation releases do have trophies, the Xbox versions don't have achievements for some reason. Major major eff up there.
These games are rhythm games where the main appeal is that you get to watch cute anime girls dance around to music. Except there are problems. First, the gameplay is just abysmal. I mean, look at that diharrea spray of button inputs on the bottom of the screen. That ain't fun. At all. Even worse, the button presses have nothing whatsoever to do with the dancing or the music. It's totally arbitrary and pointless. And you're so focused on the inputs that you can't even actually watch the dancing. Second, the dancing itself is ridiculously unimpressive and not that interesting to watch. Third, the music is totally unremarkable. And, fourth, the character models are pretty thoroughly mediocre. These games are bad bad bad.
But what if you still want to watch anime girls dance around? Well, there are a couple of solutions. The Hatsune Miku rhythm games are on Switch and Playstation and are fantastic rhythm games with great music and cute characters and very fun gameplay. The Persona Dancing All Night games on Playstation are also very good and deliver exactly what you want.
Your other option is to just search MMD on YouTube. MMD stands for Miku-Miku-Dance and is software that allows users to plug in character models and make them dance and move around and do whatever. And I really mean that "whatever" part. MMDs are fan made, but they usually have much better character models, better dance routines, and far better music than anything that these Anime Dance-Off games can offer. And if you search for MMDs on other, uh, spicier sites, you can find some pretty fantastic stuff. But you didn't hear that from me.
So to answer the question of whether the Anime Dance-Off games on consoles are worth your time - absolutely not. They play bad, have bad dancing, mediocre music, and so-so character models. You're far better off watching MMDs on YouTube or playing Hatsune Miku or the Persona dancing games instead if you want to watch cute anime waifus dance around.
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