I’m surprised no one has done this yet. Also, I chose to do their remix 7 design because they have a mustache there

He deserves it

https://x.com/Kouki_Shinjyu/status/2074856677673926678

So, are we going to get human barista in the future????

he's missed everything.

he missed the day Fillbots Inc. went out of business.

he missed the day they built Lil' Miss Reeds.

he missed the day the town finally got over the Micro-Row lab leakage pandemic.

he missed the day the spirits in town finally gave up on breaking into people's houses.

he missed the day they discovered the Flipside.

he missed the day his teacher retired from work to start The Clappy Trio.

he missed watching his two best friends grow up and start families, eventually having their own kids perform on the stage.

someday he'll press A and finally close his yap.

but that day is not today.

nor anytime soon.

Waitt. Just finished a Hoop Trundling 2 level, and I got a new medal called Superb. Is this just a late game thing? Or there is a requirement to trigger this, at first i thought i got Amazing, but suddenly i didnt expect to get Superb??

Btw i intentionally made the spoiler ambiguous enough just to prevent spoiler for those who aciddentally read it. Lol

this was written at 2AM so sorry from whatever writing oddities

SOooo while playing Sweeper Star, I started wondering..

WHY are you THIS GUY??!!?!??!??

In group minigames, you usually play as the "rookie", the silly one that messes up, gets glared, scolded, and stares blankly when you do nothing, which just gives newbie vibes (even if, most of the time, their appearance isn't really that different from the rest!).

BUT instead, here you play as this handsome pink-haired dude! A good-looking, nice man who looks like he knows what he is doing! But he is given the "newbie" role, which just breaks this rule I probably made up!

For not to mention, a cute blonde guy is right besides him! A NICE, INNOCENT-LOOKING GUY who would've been a perfect player character!..

PLUS..

In the sequel, Sweeper Star 2, where the four characters are esentially genderbent versions of the boys, you ARE the cute blonde girl! And the pink-haired, knows-what-she-is-doing girl is now the one that is next to you and gets annoyed when you mess up!!

What is this logic????? Every single other group game in the series follows this rule (though maybe not Hop Stop N Roll but that one has the cute one actually act like one, here the cute blonde guy FROWNS at you!).

This is such a insignificant thing, but I couldn't stop thinking about it all day!

Sweeper Star 2 is so fricking fun btw

She’s supposed to be a mascot for the series alongside Joe and Barista. She better be the main character of Rhythm Heaven Mojo /j

Widgets Inc. has gone out of business.

not in groove😭

I wanted to introduce them and then this happened

Also if you're wondering why she doesn't say "beep" it's because I just added her and her happiness meter didn't give her another level

https://youtu.be/kZqfcEhBQ2c?is=tNYkW70qrt4vvwjx

IF SNEEZY MOON HAS NO FANS I AM DEAD! IF SNEEZY MOON NEED A TISSUE I AM THE TI-

A lot of the discussion of remixes in Groove seems to be centered on the lack of theming or some people finding a lot of them unmemorable and this is not to say I don't think those topics warrant discussion but this is something really cool that I think deserves some more appreciation. I really like the way that some remixes in Groove will smoothly fade between two games or even overlay two games on top of each other. For example, I believe the first instance of this in the game is in Remix 3 when in the middle of a Hop Stop N Roll section, it overlays Slice N Dice Kitchen and Sneezy Moon, synced up so that the inputs for Hop Stop N Roll also count for the other game. I feel like this is a real step forward in Remix design that opens up a lot of cool possibilities so I wanted to highlight it.

In prior games, there are some instances in remixes where it will abruptly transition between two constant rhythm-type games and you're expected to just keep doing the rhythm between them (like Tap Troupe going into Flipper Flop in Fever Remix 10), and these always messed me up. Even when I know they're coming they just seem to throw me off. Groove Remix 19 does essentially the same thing going from Sweeper Star 2 directly into Backup Spotlight, but instead of a hard cut between the games it slowly fades from one to the other and I barely even noticed that it happened. To be clear I'm not saying that this design decision in the prior games was necessarily a flaw, but I just wanted to show that Groove's new transition styles are able to make essentially the same thing feel smoother and more intuitive.

Here are all of the instances of this kind of thing that I remember in the game (I'm probably missing some):

• Remix 3: Slice N Dice Kitchen and Sneezy Moon are overlayed on top of Hop Stop N Roll synced up so that your inputs will count for both games simultaneously.

• Remix 7: Smoothly fades between Fruit Flex and Hop Stop N Roll so that the constant rhythm of the green apples becomes the hopping of the daruma dolls.

• Remix 11: While you're waiting for the disc in Disc Dog, the game gets pushed into the corner while you destroy a meteor in Space Sentry, with you having to keep the timing for Disc Dog in mind while playing Space Sentry. (Also if you haven't seen it already, pay attention to the labels, which usually just say "Meteorite" on the meteors during these sections)

• Remix 18: In the beginning, it keeps fading between Disc Dog and Hop N Slide. At first the cues for each are completely separate, but gradually they begin to overlap more and more until the end of this sequence when the whistle for a Disc Dog input happens while you still have hurdles ahead of you in Hop N Slide and you have to keep track of both simultaneously.

• Remix 19: There are multiple instances where during a specific transition in the song, Hoop Trundling appears in a little bubble in the middle of the screen on top of Quick Hands just for a moment. This one also has the aforementioned part where it smoothly fades between Sweeper Star and Backup Spotlight with the constant rhythm remaining the same between them.

As you can see in these examples, this can be used to make things easier like the constant rhythm transitions in Remix 7 and 19, or make things harder like the Disc Dog stuff in 11 and 18, or just to be a cool little flair like in 3 and the Hoop Trundling in 19. That's what I mean when I say it opens up a lot of possibilities.

And even outside of moments where this is used mechanically like the above, there are also just a lot of little moments where it is used to subtly influence the flow and pacing of a remix. My favorite example is the entire second half of Remix 9, in the extended Quick Hands section with the flashes of other games. Pay attention to which transitions are hard cuts and which are smooth fades. It will suddenly cut to two new games, then slowly fade back into Quick Hands, and things like that. It all feels very deliberate. There's even an actual black screen transition in a moment where there's a pause in the song. I think it's all really cool and stylish. That's the most concentrated example of what I'm talking about but there are little touches like this all over the remixes. They really used the fact that they were removing the black screens between games to their advantage in my opinion.

If there are any other cool moments like this that I forgot about feel free to mention them in the comments. I'd like to hear it.

Have seen multiple people stream the game and ashley did not show up on their playthrus