Music and rhythm games are always fun to check out in general, and with Super Dodgeball Beats the promise of manga-style visuals and the world’s best playground sport getting involved only added to its potential. Unfortunately, the result in this case is a game that has a decent sense of humor, and looks very cool, but whose gameplay is a real letdown. The controls aren’t particularly great, never a good start, but the real problem for me is the nature of the visual cues and how they often correspond to the music. When things move past being very easy discerning which button you’ll be pressing and in what rhythm gets muddy to say the least. Circles that appear and then shrink around members of your team give you guidance on what to do but visually it’s all pretty busy and when beats move from one character to another they can be easy to miss. Add on to that the fact that the music and what you’re doing don’t always feel completely in synch and it makes for a frustrating and sloppy experience, and with so many great titles in this genre on the system it makes it easy to pass on.