However, you have to do these to advance through the game and they are usually games that revolve around counting up to a certain number in your head before pressing the button. These challenges are simple games that you have to ‘pay to play’, the higher you pay the lower the difficulty. For me, only one of them was any decent and that was because it was a remix of an older mini-game. There are only a few of these in the game and I did not enjoy them. What isn’t a mark of progress and feels more like a hinderance is the gate challenges. It is very satisfying clearing one of these and is the ultimate mark of progress throughout the game. These levels utilize everything you have learnt from the past four games into one mega-game that you don’t get to practise on. The mini-games only last about a minute at most and then at the end of a four mini-game run you are treated to a remix level. That is the nature of the game though so it wouldn’t be fair to class that as a negative point. However, this game comes packed with over 100 mini-games some of which are harder repeats, so you are bound to find a few games that you’ll enjoy and a few you that you may struggle with.

For example, I am really good at the mini-game Ringside, but I am terrible at Lockstep, which requires going offbeat at points, because going offbeat is something I find really difficult to do. However, for those players who struggle to keep beats, they may find the game very difficult. For for players with good rhythm, they will enjoy the game.

It is hard to accurately judge the difficulty of the whole game as it relies on the player’s sense of rhythm to progress. Some games only rely on one-button to be pressed, often the A Button, while some get more complex and throw in multiple buttons. In the case that you don’t know however, Rhythm Paradise Megamix is made up of various mini-games that are all based around learning and following the rhythm of the song. The gameplay of Rhythm Paradise Megamix does not do much to differentiate itself from past installments of the series although, in my opinion, it does not really need to. So was the wait worth it or will Rhythm Paradise Megamix fall on deaf ears? Let’s find out. Thanks to this fans have had to wait until the end of October to finally play the game.

While America received the title as a digital download in June, fans in Europe were promised a physical release like with past titles. Then to the surprise of many Nintendo revealed Rhythm Paradise Megamix to Western audience, promising it out by the end of 2016. It was nearly a year and a half ago when Rhythm Paradise Megamix launched in Japan as Rhythm Tengoku The Best+ and at this time no one had any idea if the game would come to the West or not. I would like to thank Nintendo UK for giving us the opportunity to play and review this game.

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