Rhythm Tengoku - Rhythm Heaven Comments by Keza MacDonald

Keza, you must have way more rhythm than I do, as I found the game quite challenging in places (although as you say things that seemed difficult the first time around are a often piece of cake when you return to them on another playthrough).
Excellent fun! And the festival / matsuri / clapping game's music is once again firmly lodged in my ear... :D

An awesome game this is! Had it for a few weeks now. Must-have import title!

I've had it on import too for about a month and although i've clocked it 100% it's absolute genius!

Just could've done with MORE!!! WE NEED MOOOORE!! (not peter moore)

ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES ON THE GBA EVER.

Seriously. I couldn't stop myself playing this without a huge smile appearing on my face. The game in essence is quite easy, but the perfect challenges provide you with a real ermm... challenge. :) The artistic style is what lives with the most when thinking of this game though. It's simply beautiful.

This game is awesome.
Everyone should buy it.
It should easily have been a 9/10 score!
I need more drumming games... here's hoping the Rhythm Tengoku devs do a music/rhythm game for the Wii! :-D

Yes, best GBA/DS/PSP title this year. Best handheld title so far.

8/10 is a DISGRACE I tell you! (looking at reviewer with sad puppy eyes)

Hey baby

Hows it going.

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is non


stop

Ebay doesn't have many copies of this available to Australia, is this gonna be a normal release? Wheres a cheap place to import it from?

This game has tap-dancing monkeys.
They get angry if you get it wrong.
Everyone owes it to themselves to buy this game :-)

I know when my girlfriend is playing it cos she sits there laughing her arse off :-D

dk_rare: I got mine from play-asia for a reasonable fee.

I got it from play-asia as well, fast and cheap.

Only 8/10? Fatwa time.

50 American dollars on the site called play asia, not too bad for a game that comes so highly recommended. And only about 2 American dollars shipping. That's got to be about 70 Australian dollars, which is about the rrp price of gba games here, so might order summat else to make it seem cheap all up lol

It needs saying, though - the idea that this game "lacks longevity" is complete and utter bollocks. It's just taken me a MONTH to get all 48 Perfect ratings, which is the first point at which you can genuinely claim to have anything like "finished" the game and at least unlocked - if not beaten - all its content. (It's like saying you've "beaten" Soul Calibur 2 just because you've played through all eight minutes of Arcade Mode and seen the credits sequence.)

Even after doing that, I've got 20-odd increasingly demanding drumming games to get pass ratings on, and some of them are so insanely hard I doubt I'll have managed it by Christmas. And even that's ignoring all the other unlockable mini-games and diversions.

There's a MINIMUM of 20 hours of solid play in Rhythm Tengoku for even a ninja-skilled player like me, probably lots more if you're slightly less fantastic than me when it comes to the gold medals and Perfect hearts, so how come games like this which actually have vast amounts of content and replayability get slagged off in shallow reviews, while stuff like Tomb Raider Legend, which is about a quarter as long and a hundredth as much fun, doesn't?

The idea of a game as well-thought-out for its purpose as RT being criticised for being "short-lived" is ridiculous and stupid and wrong, and I wish people would stop doing it.

Does it provide the same comedy as the Afro mini game on Bishi Bashi?

edit - which would be a very good thing.

jimbob101 - the game is hilarious, you can't help but grin when you play it :-)
I mean, tap-dancing monkeys? C'mon! That's comedy gold right there :-P

There are little lion guys that make you clap in a trio - the expression of disdain on their face when you get it wrong is great; as is the cheeky grin the karate guy gives when you punch a meteorite :-D

they're monkeys!

In response to Rev. Stuart Campbell:

I have to agree with the reviewer. This game rocks, sure, but once you've gotten all perfects and A'ed all the drum sessions, there's not a lot of incentive to go back and play. I guess it's different for me, since I'm a drummer, but getting all perfects didn't take a whole lot of playtime (save for a couple of the trickier games). And while the final drum session provided a bit of a challenge, I A'ed it in about 12 minutes. I'm not trying to boast here, I'm genuinely saying that I feel Rhythm Heaven lacked the challenge that would have propelled it to a 9 or 10 for me.

Again, your perception of the game and its difficulty will vary based on your rhythm game / drumming background. So, for most people (who aren't drummers), it will provide a nice challenge and thus warrant a higher score.

As it is, I was very happy to see harder versions of some of the best games included in the last couple columns. Hopefully if they make a Rhythm Heaven 2, they'll beef up the difficulty even more for those who found the first one too easy.

I think being an actual drummer is SOMETHING of an advantage...

: )

Me love incentives. Me economist, biatch.

Even my wife enjoys *playing* this game.

My wife doesn't play games. Ever.

(First and last before this was Tetris, briefly.)

More like this, Nintendo. We'll make a gamer out of her yet.

I imported this at the same time as Ouendan last month, and I've barely touched the DS game in that time.

I can't think of a higher praise than that.


(Having said that, everyone that worked on the game has earned themselves 1 x stab in the stomach each for THAT stupid rap game).

Hey! I happen to love the rap game! >:I

Really? Stabbings all round!

Anyway, here's my reader review, whack it up whenever you're ready, Eurogamer.


Rhythm Tengoku

Rhythm Tengoku is the best thing ever, and if you don't buy it, I will hire some large men with crowbars to kill you in the arms, legs, chest and head.

10/10

Better than Ouendan? Is that possible? :P

I'd say so, with rhythm tengoku the gameplay is seemless with the music, there's no on screen functions to press i.e Ouendans circles, Guitar Freaks' chords etc.

It makes the rhythm process alot more rewarding as you're not gawping at some coloured arrows/circles but instead you're admiring the games graphics and charm.

The best example is the cat and mouse game, with the mice running on the table. The music stops when you hide behind the stack of 3 plates. Go to youtube and have a look!

I'm sure I'd have something to say about this if my copy hadn't got lost in a black hole on the way to my house. Grrr.

I need to play this.

Edit: btw, is there a US version comint out, or should I just order the japanese version?

lemonfist: No plans for a release outside of Japan have been announced, so you might as well import it.

Got it, love it... I even had sex with it last night.

But world four, level five seems very very hard. With the little red chap and the fat yellow guy, I just can't beat it. I've had the game for three days and I'm stuck on that level. It's forced me to back track to get all medals for every other level in front of it and at this rate I'm more likely to get perfects on all the levels before I beat this one.