Rhythm Heaven Groove

Groove might appear to be a tough and demanding cookie on the surface with its emphasis on precision timing, but the way the game teaches and rewards you for playing are boundless, and it’s a breezy pick up and play game with a treasure trove of extras that’ll keep you wanting and craving more of it.

Rhythm Heaven Groove is a great entry in the series, featuring a ton of catchy tunes and fun scenarios. It’s a welcome return to one of my favorite series and an easy game to recommend to just about anyone, regardless of their familiarity or skills with the genre.

There’s no rhythm game quite like Rhythm Heaven, and Groove is a triumphant return for a series that has been gone for far too long. It's one of the only rhythm games to truly bring music and gameplay together, and it's fantastic.

It might not do too much to stray from the music minigame formula it helped popularise some two decades ago, but Rhythm Heaven Groove is still exactly the kind of grand return for this beat-bopping series I was hoping for.

Rhythm Heaven Groove is as weird as it is fun and serves as a fittingly quirky swan song for the OG Nintendo Switch.