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\n\tMy nerves were shot playing \u201cRhythm Heaven Groove,\u201d the first entry in more than a decade in the fast-paced rhythm game series.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTiming is everything in the latest title, released Thursday on the Nintendo Switch. Gamers will have to listen closely to the beats and have a perfectly precise internal metronome as they attempt a gauntlet of 80 single-player games and 30 multiplayer challenges.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series began with Japan\u2019s \u201cRhythm Tengoku\u201d in 2006 on the GameBoy Advance, which introduced gamers to the musical minigames that were simple yet difficult to master. The franchise came to the rest of the world with \u201cRhythm Heaven\u201d on the Nintendo DS a couple years later. The games had a lot in common, including a developer, with the popular \u201cWarioWare\u201d games, which starred Mario\u2019s nemesis in his own series of funny, rhythm-based micro-games. Then, \u201cRhythm Heaven Fever\u201d added motion controls the Wii in 2011 and returned to handhelds with the \u201cMegamix\u201d compilation in 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow 11 years later, \u201cRhythm Heaven Groove\u201d can take full control of the Switch\u2019s high-fidelity motion controls. Players will be hopping, throwing, rolling, shooting and more in a broad test of their reflexes. In a hands-on demo, some of the games involved opening and closing your adorable character\u2019s umbrella in line with three others; tossing a frisbee to a dog on the beach running at various speeds; and chopping vegetables in quick succession to make a finely-sliced salad. All of the games were easy to pick up, but nearly impossible to get a perfect score. Plus, all of the songs put you in a nearly hypnotic trance that forces you to count in your head or tap your foot along to the beats. By the end of your playtime, you\u2019ll likely be counting in four-beat or even seven-beat rhythms for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

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\n\tYou\u2019ll also be able to recruit three more friends for nerve-frying challenges that put you on teams or head-to-head. One game sits four people around a table with one slice of cake in the middle, but only the player with the most precise timing will enjoy the tasty treat. A timer counts down, and whoever can press their controller as close to zero seconds as possible wins. It was a quick but deceptively hard game that rewards those with the best sense of timing. But if that was tough, another ninja-inspired minigame broke the four of us. We had to defend a caravan from archers, who shot their arrows at different intervals. Each of us had to watch our opponent closely and time our sword slices at the exact right time to protect our cargo. We had a shared pool of lives, so if one person couldn\u2019t nail their timing, we all lost. This was the only game that none of us could finish, and it left me itching to keep trying for hours.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRhythm Heaven Groove\u2019s\u201d other mode is a brand-new fantasy adventure called \u201cBeatspell.\u201d It\u2019s a departure from the usual quirky minigames and puts you in control of a mage using different rhythm-based attacks to defeat monsters. Your character starts out with a two-beat fire attack, but you\u2019ll soon level up and unlock a three-beat healing spell to throw into the mix. As you advance and fight more dangerous monsters, you\u2019ll need to master the timing of your spells to dispatch them. For a game with an already dizzying amount of variety, \u201cBeatspell\u201d is fun addition with a surprising amount of depth.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike its predecessors, \u201cRhythm Heaven Groove\u201d is perfect for both casual gamers in search of a fun party game, or masochists who want to put their rhythm skills to the ultimate test. Along with \u201cBeatspell\u201d and the multiplayer games, there are more than enough options \u2014 and catchy songs \u2014 for hours of entertainment.<\/p>\n

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