Rhythm Heaven is also stunningly beautiful. In fact, your input completes the songs, making this not only a rhythm game but a proper music title. These distinctions influence all other aspects of the game, from the “story” of each stage to its gameplay. The tight integration of music and gameplay allows for an extreme range of styles from bossa nova to pop to Japanese folk music to blazing guitar rock, these styles provide more than audio variety. Musically clever and decidedly infectious, they're the pulse of the game. It has to be the songs are effectively the game's stages. This man/frog/dustball/thing is keeping your children safe from defective see-saws.Īt the risk of being accused of heresy, Rhythm Heaven Fever might be the best top-to-bottom soundtrack ever composed for a Nintendo title. Rhythm Heaven Fever is a fusion of gameplay and presentation that is unrivaled on the Wii. From a gameplay standpoint, that really is the entire game, and yet it is so much more. Even clearing a stage with a strong score is just an invitation to replay it in an attempt to get the insidiously stressful 'perfect' score. It's just hard enough to frustrate but not anger, and just complicated enough to induce struggle but simple enough that any bystander will instantly assert, 'Give it to me, I can do this.' Too bad for them they probably can't either. Every fifth game is a “remix” that cleverly combines the gameplay of the previous games into one delightful package. At the end of each song/game your performance is evaluated and if you pass the next game/song unlocks. There is nothing particularly complicated about the concept: press the Wii Remote's buttons to match the beat pattern of some catchy music. Really though, all that on-screen silliness is just window-dressing Rhythm Heaven bores into your soul by having some of the absolute best executions of Nintendo's 'gameplay first' philosophy ever constructed.

This mountain of a man gives fantastic interviews using only his pectorals. These are the kinds of thoughts Rhythm Heaven Fever will inspire. 'Was the pattern small ball, small ball, large ball, or the other way around?' 'Was it one-and-two three or one-and and-three?'

'I'm not looking for perfect, but if that stupid wad of dough would just hit the ball when I tell it to I could move on to more important things, like interviewing a sweaty wrestler.' Scroll down to the bottom for a video review.

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