Megamix is not quite the cheap release schedule filler that it may sound like and apart from all the new stages and remixes, for the first time there’s now a story mode as well. Rhythm Paradise Megamix (3DS) – dogs and cats, living together Then there’s our personal favourite from the first game: plucking the hairs off of a sentient onion’s chin. The opening tutorial involves simply hit a drum in time with the music, but later events having you translating a Martian octopus’ excited garble into English, helping whales punt a rabbit into space, and having a dog chop wood for a bunch of yoga-obsessed cats. But Rhythm Paradise is none of those things. Right about now this is all probably sounding rather sane and ordinary, perhaps even a little dull. There are more than 100 stages in the game, of which around 70 are from the previous games (although that includes the original, which was never released in the UK). Although you can use the stylus and touchscreen if you prefer.
In keeping with its Game Boy origins each mini-game uses only the ‘A’ and ‘B’ buttons, and occasionally also the D-pad. Rhythm Paradise Megamix (3DS) – celebrating the language of musicĪll this talk of milestone events and momentous change is probably giving the wrong impression of Rhythm Paradise Megamix, as the game is, by its own admission, decidedly non-epic.