Rhythm Heaven never misses a beat

Rhythm Heaven isn’t Nintendo’s best-known series, nor its most prolific. Prior to the launch of Rhythm Heaven Groove on the Switch this week — it’s out on July 2nd — there were only four previous entries, one of which was exclusive to Japan. The most recent came out more than a decade ago. Even still, there’s a case to be made that this is Nintendo’s most consistent franchise. There are few guarantees in life, but a new Rhythm Heaven being great is one of them.

If you’re unfamiliar, Rhythm Heaven is sort of like a music-focused version of WarioWare. That means it’s a collection of short and bizarre minigames, except these ones all test your sense of, well, rhythm. In Groove, for instance, there’s a stage where you’re controlling a car’s brakes and gas, and another has you helping a crab throw macarons. But all of these...

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