{"id":498,"date":"2025-04-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:56:17","slug":"review-rift-of-the-necrodancer-switch-imagine-if-guitar-hero-ikaruga-made-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/review-rift-of-the-necrodancer-switch-imagine-if-guitar-hero-ikaruga-made-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Rift Of The NecroDancer (Switch) &#8211; Imagine If Guitar Hero &#038; Ikaruga Made A Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Slimes to the left of me, zombies to the right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadian developer Brace Yourself Games first hit the spotlight with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/crypt_of_the_necrodancer\">Crypt of the NecroDancer<\/a>, a rhythm-based roguelike, all the way back in 2015. Dungeon crawling to a relentless beat became the new dance craze sweeping the nation, and it was warmly welcomed into the Switch indie canon with the 2019 Zelda tie-in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cadence_of_hyrule_crypt_of_the_necrodancer_featuring_the_legend_of_zelda\">Cadence of Hyrule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Brace Yourself has teamed up with Tic Toc Games for a fun spin-off that trades dungeon crawling for guitar shredding. It\u2019s still rhythm-based and still builds to mind-bending, chaotic action, but it\u2019s also still surprisingly puzzley, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/guitar_hero_warriors_of_rock\">Guitar Hero<\/a> had a baby with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ikaruga\">Ikaruga<\/a>. And there\u2019s zombies. It\u2019s not often that a game makes you feel like you\u2019re solving a puzzle, dodging traffic, and playing a gig all at once, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rift_of_the_necrodancer\">Rift of the NecroDancer<\/a> likes to keep you busy.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/rift-of-the-necrodancer\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slimes to the left of me, zombies to the right. Canadian developer Brace Yourself Games first hit the spotlight with Crypt of the NecroDancer, a rhythm-based roguelike, all the way back in 2015. Dungeon crawling to a relentless beat became the new dance craze sweeping the nation, and it was warmly welcomed into the Switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}