Each game is short but leaves you smiling with its mad Japanese quirks. The game’s music varies in beat, pitch and tempo. The game really looks great thanks to a strong art style and runs at a solid 60 frames, which is really important for a rhythm game. Controls are simple enough and require you mostly to hit A rhythmically, later opening up B and ← →.

When it comes to the gameplay, each mini-game has a unique song and premise. Comedy in games is hard to pull off, but thanks to a great localisation effort, the humour of the writing works really well. These characters include Boondog, a dog who wears bee outfit, Dieter, who has a car on his head (don’t ask), and Eglantine, a woman with a split personality, one side calm the other with a seriously short fuse. The confusion on his cute, expressionless face when encountering all the crazy oddball characters is a constant charm. Tibby makes me laugh even when he’s not doing anything. This involves Tibby, a bear with a pink afro, who falls from the sky and requires your Flow skills to find his way back home to Heaven World. Now for the first time, a best of mix makes its debut for the 3DS, providing a solid purchase if you’re a first time player.Īlthough the progression in most rhythm games tends to be very linear from one song to the next, this time there is an actual story that helps tie the games together. Rhythm Paradise Megamix is a large collection of unique rhythm minigames, although quite a few of these mini-games have existed in previous titles in the series, including Rhythm Heaven for the DS, Rhythm Heaven Fever for the Wii and the Japanese only title Rhythm Tengoku for the GBA.

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