


Add to this the way the game introduces different concepts of rhythm theory in an accessible way and this is works very well for families. The combination of this unusual approach to gameplay, some great music, an overarching story to follow and the inventive distractions result in a completely joyous experience. At one point there's a song about overworked doctors and the politicians who are turning the public against them. It's fun and funny in a bonkers kind of way. There are patients with an irregular time signatures or unexpected remixes of the songs. There are patients suffering from wi-fi jamming bacteria that mess with your connection and glitch out the beats you can see. Unlike other rhythm games that make things more challenging by adding more buttons and more beats to match, Rhythm Doctor ups the difficulty with unusual timing and various methods of distracting you from your task. 4-3N (and all of the act 4 night levels) are challenging because they're MEANT to be. It sounds simple but each level has a unique illnesses based on complex music theory: polyrhythms, hemiolas, irregular time signatures. To respond to 'If it gets any harder, it's unlikely most people will ever be able to even finish the game.', sure the difficulty gets pretty high, but excepting 1-XN, none of the night levels are actually required to beat the game. You press a single button on the 7 th beat to defibrillate each patient. Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game about shocking patients' hearts back in sync with their heartbeats to save their lives.
