It's easy to forget in these days of plastic Les Pauls, colour-coded drum kits, flashing dance mats and wireless microphones, but the very first music game had little to do with pretending to be a rock star. Instead, you tapped buttons in time with some Sesame Street hip-hop, in order to make an awesome, beanie-wearing dog rap his paper-thin heart out. And, if you performed well enough, you'd get the girl who, in this case, happened to be a sunflower. It was imaginative, leftfield, cute, weird and beautiful: everything that videogames should aspire to be. And yet, PaRappa the Rapper's wildly creative approach to interactive music has almost no legacy in contemporary videogames.
Rhythm Paradise is charming, funny, immersive, original, musical and... difficult! If your inner rythm structures aren't good enough to follow the beats of f.i. The Prodigy you'll be sweating like a pig if you want to complete the entire game. Those that love music, super original and refreshing minigames or like a challenge is at the right address with this new DS game.
Pros:
* Very original
* Good music and graphics
* Lots of variation
* Very charming
Cons:
* Sometimes too difficult
* Not always clear what you need to do
Gamerstek: "There are 25 unique mini-games, but its variants raise the amount to over 50. Each game is very different from the previous ones, meaning that each game represents a new challenge ..."
BG writes: "Rhythm games… bleuch! Oh please god not another bloody collection of rhythmic mini games on the DS - shoot me now! Although… this was made by the same guys who made the spankingly good Wario Ware. Couple that with the fact that this is the sequel to one of the titles that started the rhythm game movement way back on the GBA, Rhythm Tengoku… hum maybe a closer inspection IS required."
