Do you know what should be a competitive esport? Rhythm games. They make up a gaming genre that combines catchy tunes and the fast-paced action of tapping on icons — the modern-day equivalent of Dance Dance Revolution but on phones and keyboards. I’m aware that most rhythm games have their own internal leaderboards, but I want to see national cups full of glitz and glamor, and saturated with teams and jerseys. Players of Osu, a rhythm game available for computers, are already known to go hard, but players of mobile rhythm games — you know, the ones centred around anime characters — are also to be feared in an esports arena.
It’s not my proudest moment, but in high school I obsessively played the Love Live! rhythm game (it’s based on an anime), and it actually caught on in my friend group. I’d have my entire group of pals crowded around my tablet, all playing together as a team. At one point, I got surprisingly skilled at playing it, but my potential was squandered when I uninstalled — it was eating up 5GB of space on my phone. Regardless, I’m tired of living a lie; my true destiny is to join a competitive rhythm game league and rise to the top amidst a cheering crowd. I can’t keep waiting for the world of esports to catch up.
Chandy is a biology major/chemistry minor who's been a staff writer, Arts editor, and Managing Editor at The Cascade. She began writing in elementary school when she produced Tamagotchi fanfiction to show her peers at school -- she now lives in fear that this may have been her creative peak.
