Nintendo Switch, virtual reality headsets and mobile devices: SEGA tries to relaunch the classic series Friend's samba carefully selecting the reference platforms, looking for that user halfway between casual and nostalgic who may fondly remember coin-ops with built-in maracas or simply look for an alternative to current rhythm games.
In the case of iOS devices, the choice fell on the subscription platform Apple Arcade: evidently the result of an agreement with the Cupertino company, this mobile version can have the same songs as Party Central (in fact, with a few more songs) and with the same system, although shifted towards touch controls.
Does the formula work just as well? We reveal it to you in review of Amigo's Samba: Party-To-Go.
Structure: something more, something less
We were talking about Songs, a clearly fundamental aspect in a rhythm game: Samba de Amigo: Party-To-Go will be able to have the same songs that we talked about in the review of Samba de Amigo: Party Central, but with three new features ("Daddy", "The Edge of Glory" and "The Walker"), which bring the list to more than forty pieces.
In front of way, the quick game is accompanied by a new story mode in which the protagonist of the series, the little monkey Amigo, leaves for space aboard a rocket, but is immediately blocked and finds himself facing an adventure made up of several chapters and missions, obviously. represented by the rhythmic tests of the game.
There is absolutely no lack of content, but compared to the Nintendo Switch version Multiplayer has been completely removed., perhaps because developers have not been able to find convincing solutions in terms of latency in online games, since all mechanics are based on the precision and rhythm of touches on the touch screen.
However, the aspect related to progression does not change, marked by obtaining points and coins through which it is possible to unlock and buy a whole series of aesthetic objects with which to change Amigo's appearance and make it decidedly more elegant. As much as a monkey can be...
Gameplay: thumbs, not maracas
The arrival of smartphones and tablets has inevitably meant an important change in the Samba de Amigo formula, which inevitably loses the maracas and therefore the physicality of its traditional game adapt to the touch screen and its prerogatives: the system works, there is no doubt about that, but it is not the same.
Presenting the interface already seen on Nintendo Switch, the game simply asks you to touch the circles arranged in a hexagon when the spheres pass through it, following the rhythm of the heartbeat, and from this point of view it can be said that the difficulty is even greater. levels the experience does not become impossible It also doesn't tend to stumble like the Japanese hybrid console.
Technical realization: where have I seen it before?
A few minutes with Amigo's Samba: Party-To-Go are enough to understand how the two projects, this one and the Switch edition, were developed together. The assets are in fact the same. in terms of characters and settings, with some differences related only to the interlude sequences that embellish the story.
It is therefore one graphics Particularly cute and colorful, the one that moves before our eyes as we tackle the different songs, with Amigo and his friends dancing like crazy and spectacular moments corresponding to the score multipliers. Nothing to add regarding the audio sector, characterized as mentioned by a list of songs that are as full-bodied and varied as possible.
Conclusions
Tested version iPhone digital delivery App Store Price Free Holygamerz.com 7.5 audience ND your voteSamba de Amigo: Party-To-Go marks the debut of SEGA's rhythm series on iOS devices with a colourful, fun and substantially similar episode to Party Central, released at the same time on Nintendo Switch: the song list is the same ( here slightly richer), the interface and graphical resources too, but the multiplayer mode has been removed and the focus of the game obviously changes, given the lack of maracas and physical controllers, replaced in this case by the simple touch of the touch screen . In any case, a pleasant experience for Apple Arcade subscribers.
PRO
- Colorful, fun, full-bodied.
- Precise touch controls
- Same song list as Party Central
AGAINST
- Without the maracas it is not the same
- No multiplayer
