
Rock Band, Guitar Hero and all the other rock-posturing others clutter under-stair cupboards and garages. It's an approach that has served Nintendo's designers well. Rhythm Paradise is a series that seeks to capture these joyous rhythmic oddities in microgames. There's the ticking of the clock, holding down an unwavering 60bpm till the end of time, or, at least, of batteries.

There are the seasons - four beats of the bar that comprise each year. There's the plip-plipping of raindrops on a tin roof, the wobble and throb of a lorry engine idling in traffic, and the wash of timpani whenever a wave hurls itself onto pebbles, fatally. Listen carefully and you'll soon notice how existence is filled with rhythmic flourishes.

Much more than a mere 'Best Of' compilation, Rhythm Heaven Megamix is a tour-de-force of microscopic, rhythmic ingenuity.
