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Rhythm Tengoku: the arcade version!

12:14 PM on 05.11.2007   |   Niero


If I had to be cast away on a deserted island with but a single game for my Nintendo DS, I would have to opt for the fat little imported Gameboy Advance nugget that is Rhythm Tengoku. This title embodies everything I love about video games: a killer soundtrack, condescending monkeys in orange afro wigs, and some of the most simple and purely entertaining gameplay I've ever enjoyed. The variety in this title puts games like Wii Play and Warioware to shame -- it really is like owning a pack of 40 different music games. I love it like Wilson.

Years after its release, it comes as a susprise that the sleeper hit is getting a coin-op arcade release from Sega. The attached high res scan from a Japanese magazine shows a higher resolution port with the same activities found in the game, adapted to competitive duel and (what I believe to be) co-op gameplay modes. Obviously, there is little chance in hell that such a machine see a stateside release, but I'm optimistic. Worse case, I travel light and have an affinity for sushi anyway. Dtoid Japan in 2009!

[Thanks Zombie-kun] 

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Joe Burling's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 12:20
Joe Burling
I don't know, Niero. I think I'd go with Elite Beat Agents if I had to chose a DS game.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 12:28
brad drac
If you like elite beat agents, chances are good you'll like tengoku. It's basically warioware(made by the same team), but all the minigames are music based. You might think the GBA's shitty sound quality would make any attempts at music games shitty and painful, but you'd be wrong. Very wrong. So wrong, you deserve a baseball bat blow to the scrot for your elitist condescension. You make me sick...
Joe Burling's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 12:30
Joe Burling
So, if we are stranded on a deserted island, we'd just need a DS and a bunch of rhythm based action games? That would work. Maybe some Dead Or Alive Xtreme for those "intimate" moments, but that's not on the DS. :(
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 13:10
s0lesurviv0r
That's why there is this game.


Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 13:30
Niero
I have EBA and Ouredan and I find Tengoku to be much more entertaining. Probably because EBA offers only 12 songs and only one game type, whereas this game offers at least 20-30 weird jpop songs, eight remix modes, and each stage plays completely differently.
Oolong's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 15:09
Oolong
Rhythm Tengoku is my fave GBA game. That and Go! Go! Beckham! Soccer! game! that! too! is! very! very! good!
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/11/2007 15:10
Gameboi
Since my Japanese is non-existent at best (Hey, I can count to 10), I can only assume that the scan just has fun written all over it....several times over.
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