With Rhythm Heaven, interaction with the included challenges is still relatively simple a tap of the touch screen, a held tap, or a flick of the stylus in a particular direction. Many games required you to attempt them before you even grasped the concept of what you were attempting, and stringing such tasks together in rapid succession always felt more like a game only for people who play games. WarioWare was a collection of quick challenges so basic in nature that anybody could accomplish them, but they were presented in a way that wasn’t friendly to everybody. Rhythm Heaven is a perfect example of the fun that video games can offer us in its simplest and purest form, and is undeniably one of the best DS titles ever to see release in that regard. Why should you care about Rhythm Heaven? Do you have to like those wacky music games in order to appreciate it? Because it’s worth caring about, and no. I promise you: in this case, there are no losers. I know, that may conjure up feelings of class superiority, but for our case, it’ll deal with those who have the Japanese release Rhythm Tengoku Gold, and those who will be coming to Rhythm Heaven with unbiased eyes. Nintendo announced the North American release of Rhythm Tengoku Gold-retitled Rhythm Heaven for our shores-and the game was released to the masses yesterday.įor this next part, let me break you folks out there down into two groups: the “have”s and the “have-not”s. Well, here I am, proven wrong, and thank heaven I was. Even so, I still had this deep down feeling that it would end up joining the “lost cause” club along with other Nintendo titles like Mother 3 and Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland. That’s a game with long legs sales-wise.) Though it still retained the charm and simplicity of the original Rhythm Tengoku, this new DS version not only had a more polished and appealing look and feel, but also a more universally-friendly one. (The game was originally released in July of last year, and as of the last weekly sales data for Japan, RTG was the 22nd best selling game for the week. While Rhythm Tengoku was sadly under-appreciated in its home country, its sequel, Rhythm Tengoku Gold, has been completely the opposite. For a game that already had timing going against it, a lot of work would have had to go in to Rhythm Heaven in order to make it Western-friendly work that probably, at that point, simply wasn’t justifiable.
Some companies might feel that these elements would add a charm to be appreciated by a more niche market, but a company like Nintendo typically thinks on much larger scales. Rhythm Tengoku’s style and silliness were very Japanese in nature, but even more, a number of the games were specifically Japanese either in regard to the kind of music they relied on or overall cultural elements that might not fully be appreciated by a Western audience (at least one that had no real knowledge of such things).
One game might have you hitting the A button to help a batter stuck in a room floating in outer space hit tossed baseballs in time to the music another had you tap-dancing on stage with a pair of monkeys.
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WarioWare’s micro-games were traded for mini-games, as a whole series of unique gaming ideas were based around rhythmic timing and pieced together to craft a surprisingly coherent whole. There was another reason that it ended up becoming a must-have import title and not a game given to the whole world, however the game was very Japanese.Ĭrafted by the same team that had given us WarioWare, Rhythm Tengoku was a new submission to the rhythm/music gaming genre, and felt, not surprisingly, like what you might expect if the team that had given us WarioWare crafted a new submission to the rhythm/music gaming genre. Now, part of that was simply down to timing it hit in Japan as the GBA was on its way out in favor of the DS, and by the time it had gone through localization and planning for a release over here it would have been even later to the party. Its predecessor–a game known as Rhythm Tengoku on the GameBoy Advance–never came our way. Honestly? I never expected Rhythm Heaven to come out in the United States.
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