Rhythm Paradise Groove hands-on preview – don’t stop the minigame music

Synchronised umbrella-ella-ella (Nintendo)

GameCentral finds the flow in the first Rhythm Paradise game in a decade, where you chop vegetables and open umbrellas to the beat. 

Born in the aftermath of WarioWare by designer Kazuyoshi Osawa, the Rhythm Paradise series (known as Rhythm Heaven in the US) hasn’t made a big splash in the West. There are four prior entries in the series, and only three of those made it to the UK, with the last being 2015’s Rhythm Paradise Megamix on the Nintendo 3DS. 

The series has always played second fiddle to WarioWare (in comparison, Wario’s microgame collection has received three new g...