American gamers do not have many ds rhythm games. When people think of ds games they usually think of Guitar hero, Rhythm Heaven, or Elite Beat Agents. After playing through these games you can hardly find a good music based game. How in the world will you get your musical beat playtime back? Two words: Beat City.
Story: Beat City, unlike Rhythm Heaven, has a story. Beat City is about the hero Synchronizer, his pal Groove Whale, and his love Beatrice. These characters battle against the evil cacophony organization to try to bring back the beat to Beat City. To bring back the beat you play musical games that are wacky and fun.
Presentation: Beat city is presented very well. From the cartoony graphics to the fact that as you do good in a mini-game the level look changes the game looks very good. The menu is a little bland but it makes up for it with everything else. The game suffers from common load times though.
Gameplay: In Beat City there are three modes: Beat Revolution, Mini Games, and Tutorial. Beat Revolution is literally the story mode. In B.R. you play through "days" on a "calender". There are 18 "days" to play through. Each day contains a few music games. In Mini Games you can just pick up and play any of the 20 music games you have unlocked. You start out with quite a few mini-games, so don't be afraid to jump into the game in this mode. Tutorial is exactly what it says it is.
Music games in this game only last generally a few minutes. The only controls you need to know are the tap, flick, and hold. These are the same controls as rhythm heaven. In each music game you tap, flick, or hold to the beat, depending on music and onscreen queues.
Music: Music in a rhythm/music game always matters. I am happy to say that Beat City has great "bit style" music. You might just find yourself bouncing/ headbanging to the music quite a lot.
Replayability: Beat City has quite a bit of replayability. By getting an 80% or over on a song you unlock an item in the Beat Album. The B.A. gives nice backstory on a lot *22* of the games objects. 20 of the items in the B.A. are unlocked from % and the other 2 are unlocked from the story mode. This isn't the only reason to keep playing Beat City though, Almost all of the music games are fun and you might just want to go back in B.R. and improve your scores to see what happens when you get Groove Whale back to space.
Conclusion: For only $20 bucks Beat City is a steal. Everything in the game is fun and enjoyable. I suspect this to be one of the years most overlooked game. If you want to play a demo of Beat City head on over to [...]
Music: 5/5
Story: 5/5
Presentation: 5/5
Replayability: 5/5
Gameplay: 5/5
Overall: 10/10Get more detail about Beat City.
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