by Kevin - 06.06.06

Rhythm Tengoku, which translates as Rhythm Heaven, was unvealed during E3 and barely received any attention until now.
Developed by the Made in Wario team, the game is a combination of over 40 rhythm-based mini-games that last 2~3 minutes each. Much like the Made in Wario game series, Rhythm Tengoku is played by a simple push of the button, will feature end level mini-bosses and it’ll be possible to acquire medals after clearing stages, which will get you some nifty rhythm toys. The game is said to be very strict about timing, and you’ll be told how much rhythm sense you have at the end of a song.
Examples of mini-games are:
Karate House - You have to adjust to the rhythm to hit flies with your fist and fill up a gauge meter;
Rhythm Dehairing - A farmer is troubled by hair growing on his vegetables and you have to use tweezers and timing to pull out the hair growth.
Yeah, funky.
Rhythm Tengoku is scheduled for an August 3rd release date in Japan and no announcement has been made yet about a possible US release. Set phasers to “import copy”.
Rhythm Tengoku (old) Famitsu Scan
source: NeoGAF, Rambling Man blog & IGN











Looks and sounds awesome. :3
Fish - 06.06.06 12:03 pm
Music games and WarioWare are usually pretty language neutral.
Set phasers to import indeed.
Rynen10K - 06.06.06 12:18 pm
oh man, MUST GET.
Razan - 06.06.06 12:25 pm
Wario Ware + Rhythm Game?
Count me in!
Thores - 06.06.06 1:15 pm
must try this
wind - 06.06.06 4:06 pm
Anyone remember the Rythm based boss in Wario Ware: Twisted? The one where you have to move the GBA back and forth with the right timing and sometimes press A? Yeah. I sucked at that one. I have very bad rythm. Luckily I was finally able to beat it, but that’s only because it isn’t very strict…
That one Rythm game on Feel the Magic was also the only one I was never able to beat. Not even on the easiest difficulty setting.
It sounds like I’m gonna have to pass on this one, just because I will probably be unable to actually progress in it…
perdevious - 06.06.06 4:56 pm
Are you kidding me? This looks friggin awesome! I am so going to import this.
bubbletron - 06.06.06 6:12 pm
dude, freakin sweet looking game
its really too bad that the US misses out on releases of titles that are more off-beat (pun kinda sorta intended, but, admittedly, poorly executed)
Brianner - 06.06.06 7:52 pm
this is sweet because i’ll be in japan when it’s released. i just hope it’s not sold out everywhere i go.
daniel schroeder - 06.07.06 4:55 pm