Sayonara Wild Hearts takes you on an impossibly fast ride.
Sayonara Wild Hearts takes you on an impossibly fast ride.
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Sayonara Wild Hearts review — Dance-fighting with pop music and motorcycles is so fun

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Music games don’t always get me on the dance floor. But Sayonara Wild Hearts is a wonderfully creative romp that combines dance-fighting, pop music, and high-speed chases on motorcycles and deer.

This “pop album video game” debuted last week for $13 on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. I played it on Apple Arcade, which is a game subscription service that costs $5 a month. I also used my Rotor Riot wired game controller to play the game rather than brave the untrustworthy touchscreen. You can also play it on an iPad or Apple TV.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.