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. Jared Matte. "Samba de Amigo "Behind the Screens" ". Green Hill Zone. Archived from the original on 2021-05-20 . Retrieved 2008-07-08. 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.

Samba de Amigo: Party Central, as Sega is calling this new Switch version, takes the infectious rhythm-action of the Dreamcast original - which sees players following on-screen prompts to furiously shake their maracas in time with the music and in the desired position - but spices things up with a bunch of new mini-game-like interludes as songs progress. a b McWhertor, Michael (May 23, 2023). "Samba de Amigo wants you to shake it without shame". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on September 1, 2023 . Retrieved May 23, 2023. Reynolds, Ollie (April 25, 2023). "Samba De Amigo: Party Central's Song List Has Ariana Grande Headlining". Nintendo Life. Hookshot Media. Archived from the original on April 26, 2023 . Retrieved April 26, 2023. The original arcade game used red maraca controllers modeled after their in-game design. Magnetic sensors were used to determine their position. As this was an expensive process, it had to be reworked for the home version. [3] 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.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. In mid-2007, veteran developers Gearbox Software came up with the idea to port the game to the Wii console, and upon Sega's approval, began working on the new version with Sonic Team as consultants. [9] The default setting of the game uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to simulate the maraca-shaking from the original game, with the option to use two remotes for completely wireless play. Optional maraca-shaped attachments are also available to provide the full experience. [10] Unlike the maraca controls of the Dreamcast version which could detect the height at which they were shaken, the Wii sensor bar is not capable of this. Instead, the angle at which the Wii Remote is being shaken determines if high, mid or low notes are hit. The rotation of the controller also has an effect on note detection, especially when doing cross-over moves. Madnani, Mikhali (August 1, 2023). "Apple Arcade August 2023 New Games: Samba de Amigo, Kingdoms Merge & Build, finity, and Nekograms+". TouchArcade. TouchArcade.com, LLC . Retrieved August 1, 2023. 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. Samba de Amigo Review". GameGoldies. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04 . Retrieved 2009-07-16.

Samba de Amigo: Party Central, as this new version will be known, takes the exuberant rhythm-action of the Dreamcast original - where the aim is essentially to orientate your maraca-ing arms into position according to the game's whims then rhythmically shake to the music like you've never shaken before - but slings in a bunch of new mini-game-like interludes as songs progress. 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]This section needs expansionwith: more information from Nintendo Life 's August 2023 interview with and TouchArcade 's September 2023 interview with Shun Nakamura. You can help by adding to it. ( September 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.

a b Reed, Kristan (2008-09-17). "Samba De Amigo". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31 . Retrieved 2020-10-28. a b "Samba De Amigo Review from GamePro". 2011-06-07. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07 . Retrieved 2020-10-28. Allison Berryman, Matt Casamassina (2008-11-08). "Samba de Amigo Developer Diary 1". IGN. Archived from the original on August 15, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-08-22.a b "Samba De Amigo Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2020-11-15 . Retrieved 2020-10-28. In a Flash version mini-game used for the promotion of the Wii version of the game, keys W, D, and C, then O, J, and N is used to tap the drums. [5] The mini game also played an introductory movie showing a family playing the Wii version of the game. Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame. Leston, Ryan (June 15, 2023). " 'Samba de Amigo: Party Central' will feature a new song from Pitbull's next album". NME. NME Networks. 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.

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.

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.