Samba de Amigo - Party Central (Nintendo Switch)

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If you want to play using the "shake play" function on the Nintendo Switch Lite™, you will need additional charging devices for the Joy-Con™, such as the Joy-Con Charging Grip. a b c d e f Innes, Ruby (May 24, 2023). "I Tried The New Samba De Amigo Game And Boy Are My Arms Tired". Kotaku Australia. Pedestrian Group. Archived from the original on August 31, 2023 . Retrieved May 24, 2023. Sega announced the new Samba de Amigo at Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct. It’s the second surprise Dreamcast-era revival so far this year. Wacholz, Charlie (August 29, 2023). "Samba de Amigo: Party Central Review (Switch)". Nintendo Life. Hookshot Media. Archived from the original on August 29, 2023 . Retrieved August 29, 2023. Romano, Sal (1 June 2023). "Samba de Amigo announced for Quest 2". Gematsu. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023 . Retrieved 2 June 2023.

a b Lada, Jenni (August 24, 2023). "BTS Songs Appear in Samba de Amigo: Party Central K-Pop DLC". Siliconera. Gamurs Group. Archived from the original on September 1, 2023 . Retrieved August 24, 2023. a b "Samba De Amigo Review from GamePro". 2011-06-07. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07 . Retrieved 2020-10-28. In the original arcade game, the player is given two or three stages to play through, depending on how the options are set. Each stage has three songs to choose from. If the player does well enough on each stage, an additional Special stage is enabled, where three of the more challenging songs are made available.Samba de Amigo: Party Central [note 1] is a motion-based rhythm game developed and published by Sega. The game is a sequel to Samba de Amigo and was released on the Nintendo Switch on August 29, 2023. [1] In Samba de Amigo: Party Central, players shake their controllers like a set of maracas on time with the shapes on screen. In contrast to its predecessor, the game has less focus on Latin music and more on popular music genres in general. [3] Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you. Musgrave, Shaun (August 30, 2023). "SwitchArcade Round-Up: 'Samba de Amigo: Party Central' Review, Plus Today's News, Releases, and Sales". TouchArcade. TouchArcade.com, LLC. Archived from the original on September 1, 2023 . Retrieved August 31, 2023. Peters, Jay (1 June 2023). "The biggest announcements from Meta's Quest Gaming Showcase". The Verge. Vox Media. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023 . Retrieved 2 June 2023.

Sega's Switch version takes the exuberant rhythm-action of the Dreamcast original - where the goal is essentially to orientate your maraca-ing arms to match the position shown on screen then shake in time with the prompts - but slings in new mini-game-like interludes as songs progress. Samba de Amigo: Party Central". SEGA. Archived from the original on August 31, 2023 . Retrieved May 24, 2023. a b c d e Shea, Brian (May 23, 2023). "Samba De Amigo: Party Central Release Date Set For August, Sonic Music DLC Announced". Game Informer. GameStop . Retrieved May 23, 2023.GameSpot presented Samba de Amigo with its annual "Best Puzzle Game" and "Best Game No One Played" awards among console games, and nominated it in the "Best Game Music" and "Best Graphics, Artistic" categories. [19]

GameSpot Staff (January 5, 2001). "Best and Worst of 2000". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 13, 2002.There are still some highlights here; every once in a while, you'll be presented with a boss fight of sorts. Any given song in the game is divided up into five sections. If you dance better than the boss does in a single section, you win that section and get a point. Each win is calculated by points, but the game counts 'viewers' instead since each dance is supposed to take place on a live stream. It's an interesting idea, but again, the follower numbers feel wholly arbitrary. Four players can play together online. [9] "World Party" is an eight-player [3] online mode in which players, along with 12 computer-controlled ones, compete through three randomly-chosen songs to get obtain the highest score to avoid losing. Differing events occur and items can be used. At the end of each round, the losing players are eliminated. [7] [10] [2]

Groove to 40 hit songs from the world’s most popular genres including EDM, pop, and Latin, with more arriving as post-launch DLC! Hatfield, Daemon (September 16, 2008). "Samba De Amigo (Wii)". IGN. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022 . Retrieved March 27, 2022. Broadwell, Josh (June 15, 2023). "A new Pitbull song is coming to Samba de Amigo for Switch and VR". For The Win. USA Today. Archived from the original on September 1, 2023 . Retrieved June 16, 2023.Samba de Amigo is played with a pair of maracas. As a song plays, the player, guided by on-screen graphics, must shake the maracas at high, middle, or low heights with the beat of the music, or occasionally must strike poses with the maracas held in various positions. The player is represented on-screen by Amigo, a Brazilian [ citation needed] monkey. If the player does well, the scene around Amigo (usually a concert or a dance) will attract more people and become more vividly animated; if the player does poorly, characters leave and eventually all that's left is Amigo alone, looking sad. Samba de Amigo Ver. 2000 was announced for North American release, under the name Samba de Amigo Ver. 2001, but it was among the games that were canceled when Sega discontinued support for their console. The "StreamiGo!" mode has Amigo trying to become a famous online streamer. The player must complete missions and defeat opponents to earn more followers. A simulated chat room for each character is displayed on-screen. [3] [9] [10] Samba de Amigo references have continued to appear in many of Sega's other titles. The song "Vamos a Carnival" is featured in the MMO Phantasy Star Online 2 as the game's lobby music every April as part of a yearly Easter event, which would later be re-instated as the BGM of the Easter lobby which appears every second half of April, as well as the Screenshot Studio. A Samba de Amigo-themed level appears in Sonic Pinball Party. Additionally, Amigo appears as a playable character in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and its sequel Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed. In Japan, Game Machine listed Samba de Amigo on their February 1, 2000, issue as being the most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month. [15] It went on to be the highest-grossing dedicated arcade game of 2000 in Japan. [16]