This is further emphasised by the various mini-games that can trigger mid-song (such as hitting baseballs at a target) and a roulette wheel which makes temporary random changes that risk throwing off your timing, like making the markers small or speeding the song up. Maybe things are stricter on the higher difficulties, but our session suggested Party Central is more concerned with appeasing casual newcomers to the genre, rather than rhythm game enthusiasts that will immediately restart a track if they miss so much as one beat. Most other rhythm games penalise you for missing a single beat, but Party Central is surprisingly generous. We suspect that Sega is aware of the inconsistency because despite ending tracks with more misses than we’d like, the game kept rewarding us with S ranks we clearly didn't deserve, congratulating us for managing perfect scores. Samba de Amigo: Party Central - the motion controls are not entirely reliable (pic: Sega) Even if it does leave you wondering why Sega hasn’t made a dedicated Sonic rhythm action game yet. Fans of that franchise will get a kick out of these ones playing on a Sonic Adventure 2 inspired dance stage, as the blue blur himself busts a move. It being a Sega title also means there’s a small handful of vocal tracks from Sonic The Hedgehog games, including the main theme song of Sonic Frontiers. It’s by no means a bad selection, though, and is bound to elicit nostalgia from anyone who's been a teenager in the last three or so decades. The song list is mostly an eclectic mix of rock and pop, ranging from Guns N’ Roses to Kesha, with just a handful of tracks from the original game peppered throughout.
While the Dreamcast game featured its fair share of then current pop songs, it primarily consisted of Latin music, yet those are very much the minority in Party Central.
This discarding of the original game's aesthetic is matched by the song list. It almost has the same energy as your dad coming with you to a nightclub to prove he’s still ‘with it.’ Aside from the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers serving as maracas, Samba has otherwise shed his Latin America inspired aesthetic, trading his sombrero for a modern, flashier outfit and dancing in neon-lit environments rather than a samba street party. From the announcement trailer alone, it’s obvious that Sega is prioritising appealing to a newer generation.
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