Nothing makes a good rhythm game like music with a bit of energy to it. Playing tends to be a high-energy activity so for the most part you want tunes to reflect that, especially in gameplay-focused arcade-like titles. Which isn't to say a dirge can't work, but seeing as more notes gives more to do that means you won't be seeing much of, for example, ambient drone. Energetic doesn't necessarily mean upbeat, though, and a perfect example of this would be Linkin Park. The band's music gets called a lot of things, thanks to the way it blends genres together, but I like to think of it as high energy self-recrimination.
Over Twenty Five Years of Music History In One Handy DLC
The band has been through a lot over the last decade but is currently riding high after a successful revival, and the new vocalist Emily Armstrong is both incredibly different from Chester Bennington and somehow absolutely perfect as well. After all the years and changes Linkin Park is still recognizably Linkin Park, and the band hasn't stopped racking up the hits as its library expands. The size of the catalog means representing Linking Park...
