{"id":17262,"date":"2017-12-22T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17262"},"modified":"2017-12-07T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:33:07","slug":"super-beat-sports-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/super-beat-sports-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Beat Sports (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some may say that many skills in sports require a rhythmic action to them, and now you can put that statement to the test with Super Beat Sports.\u00a0 It\u2019s a music\/rhythm game with a sports theme and you can download it on the Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 In the game you play as a human who travels to a whimsical alien world where they play sports based on music and rhythm.\u00a0 It\u2019s cute and quirky and reminds me a bit of the Rhythm Heaven game series (those games even had golf and ping pong rhythm games).<\/p>\n

Before you start, you can customize your player character and change their skin tone, outfit, and apparatus for hitting the ball (bat, club, hockey stick, hammer, fish, etc.).\u00a0 As you play you\u2019ll earn points which can fill up a meter.\u00a0 When the meter is full, you\u2019ll get a gift, like a new outfit to wear or club to use.<\/p>\n

There are five main gameplay modes altogether. \u00a0In Whacky Bat, aliens will pitch the ball and you must hit it in time with the beat of the music.\u00a0 You can also watch the aliens for picture cues to let you know which alien is pitching to you.\u00a0 The game will let you know if you hit right on time, or too early or late. Net Ball is similar, but with a volleyball theme.\u00a0 You must watch when an alien serves the ball to you and you must volley or spike it back in time with the beat.\u00a0 And in Gobble Golf, aliens will sing to the music and you must swing your club at the right time to feed them golf balls as their mouths open.\u00a0 Each of these modes has dozens of tiers of difficulty including a super hard Pro Mode, and they can be played with one or two players.<\/p>\n

The last two modes are more multiplayer-centric.\u00a0 Buddy Ball can be played with up to four players, and it\u2019s like a combination of Whacky Bat and Net Ball.\u00a0 You must hit the ball to one of three aliens who will knock it back at different speeds to another player.\u00a0 You must try to get other players to miss hitting it and losing a heart.\u00a0 Whoever is left standing, wins.\u00a0 And Rhythm Rocket is like a music-based super fun version of air hockey.\u00a0 Both these modes can be played with a single player and CPU opponents as well.<\/p>\n

The game\u2019s graphics are cartoony and very simple, and look like something that could\u2019ve been done on the Wii or even PS2.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing, as it gives the game a kind of \u2018neo-retro\u2019 feel if that makes any sense.\u00a0 It definitely looks like a game that would\u2019ve been released on the Wii.\u00a0 You can even use motion controls instead of pressing buttons if you want.\u00a0 Speaking of which, play control is simple and intuitive as well.\u00a0 If I had any problems with this game, it\u2019s that I wish there were more varieties of modes.\u00a0 Maybe other sports like football or soccer or hockey.\u00a0 Although you\u2019d be doing the same thing, which is understandable as to why they didn\u2019t do that, but it would be nice to have a change of scenery every once in a while.\u00a0 But if you enjoy quirky rhythm games, you may want to check this one out anyway.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing very violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 You can hit aliens with sports balls, but it doesn\u2019t seem to faze them much.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the instructions.\u00a0 The game starts out super easy, but younger players may need help with the tougher stages.\u00a0 And they do get pretty tough!\u00a0 The game could be considered almost educational as it reinforces basic music and rhythm skills.\u00a0 \u00a0Super Beat Sports is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some may say that many skills in sports require a rhythmic action to them, and now you can put that statement to the test with Super Beat Sports.\u00a0 It\u2019s a music\/rhythm game with a sports theme and you can download it on the Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 In the game you play as a human who travels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17264,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262\/revisions\/17264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}