What the hell IS a rhythm game

got that in ya

I've been a music game player for a good while. In that time I have tried many of them, and even been seriously playing and being "decent" at some of them. I have seen a t

Defining the genre

Defining a genre is not a pretty simple task, you know that as you go through your 300th . I'll try to do it anyway.

So I think what fits the X genre is whether that is the game's main gameplay feature. Like how if the game is mainly about you as a character in a first person view shooting stuffs with whatever weaponary, you call that a FPS. By that definition, the game is in the rhythm game genre if your main goal is to time your actions to the music and how well you do that determines your score. I know that my definition is still pretty

What counts?

With that,

What doesn't?