Switch Game Review: Samba De Amigo: Party Central

 Samba De Amigo was featured at different Nintendo Directs. It was a game promoted to be a good rhythm game with a lot of songs from major bands or singers.  It also featured a deluxe edition which is essentially a DLC. Either way, a lot of people clamored for this as they were a fan of rhythm games.  Does this game do well? Does it not? All that and more below.

Positives:

1. Lots of Great songs- And I mean A LOT.  There are a ton of songs on the Deluxe Edition that will make people really clamor for what they want overall. There are so many big songs on there from Carly Rae Jepsen to Bon Jovi.  Another good thing that this game does is..

2. Songs You May Not Know- There are some that I didn't know but others may not know either overall.  This was a cool thing as there were songs where I said "What is this song?" "What is that song?" but then I researched and it worked very well.  So not just the big bands but also a curious look into lesser known songs.

3. Rhythm- I like the rhythm of this game. All of them seem to be good.  It was fun to be good overall! I also think this kind of rivals Melody of Memory to how good the rhythm-based sequences are here.

Negatives:

1. Limited Scope- This is the problem with the rhythm-based game like this, if you don't get enough people to be on board with your game to put their song/songs in the game it won't go much of anywhere even with DLC.  Unlike a Square or a Disney, where you have hundreds of songs to go from, this is a limited amount of a scope for big bands and getting songs on a game.

2. Monotonous- This game did seem to be monotonous over a short bit of time.  I never really got a major feeling out of this and never really felt involved outside of doing the songs overall.

3. No Story- This is where MoM does much better than Samba De Amigo, as there isn't really any story to this game. It feels like if this had some sort of story, this would be a lot more fun to this game.  Unfortunately it was not that.

Overall Rating: 

7 out of 10. While fun and with the songs from big and small artists and singers and bands, it was very limited and got boring quick.  With no story, it was a struggle overall. I would recommend as a cheap playthrough but that's it really.