Wish List
Rhythm Heaven
By Shaun Hatton - December 4th, 2009
Last year, I took a lot of my holiday money and put it towards buying up a bunch of Nintendo DS games I had always meant to get. In total, I purchased about five games for that system and completely ignored releases for the other systems I own. After all, the DS is the current-gen system I probably play the most.
This year, Nintendo released many high-quality first-party titles for the DS. In fact out of all the games that launched in 2009, a good number of my favourites were on Nintendo’s handheld. I was lucky enough to get to play, if not own, most of the first party DS games this year. Upon first play, Rhythm Heaven was immediately quirky, entertaining, cute, and fun. It’s a new take on rhythm titles – one which doesn’t really hold the player’s hand and has no genre-demanded note chart for players to cue up their actions to. Instead, other visual cues (some very subtle) and musical beats offer the player hints regarding when to tap, hold, flick, or slide along with the songs.
Rhythm Heaven is enjoyable in both short bursts and long marathon play sessions. For weeks after putting it down, I’d still have many of its songs stuck in my head from time to time. For these reasons, it has found its way onto my wish list this year, and I’m hoping this arrives as a stocking stuffer – which reminds me, I need to get a stocking.
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