Rhythm Paradise Megamix is worth dusting off your 3DS for
Videogames excel at wish fulfilment. For example: we’ve all dreamed of being a little rabbit travelling across an ocean by rhythmically jumping off the backs of a line of giant turtles, or being a floating bow and arrow shooting at ghosts, or a set of tweezers plucking hairs out of onions with faces drawn on them.
Despite clearly catering to mainstream desires, and the fact they enlisted Beyoncé to do the advert, the Rhythm Paradise series is still considered niche even though it’s been out for decade.
Sensing this, Nintendo has put together Rhythm Paradise Megamix, a collection of the best bits of the entire series, including some reworked bits from the very first game that never saw a release in the UK.
You work your way through a series of ludicrous, short but smartly designed rhythm-based challenges, tapping on the screen and frequently laughing as you do so thanks to the relentless inventiveness and absurd sense of humour.
It’ll even charm you in the way it trips you up. Once you reach the higher difficulty levels, it gently obfuscates things, removing important visual and audio cues, forcing you to rely on your own internal sense of rhythm instead of simply watching or listening to what’s happening on screen.
Rhythm Paradise Megamix is an entirely welcome trip down memory lane for series veterans, and utterly essential for pretty much everyone else.