Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Rejoice! Rhythm Heaven Wii will use buttons, not waggle :)

Tucked away within the text version of Nintendo's recent "Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ended March 2011" presentation is the following comment--from President/CEO Satoru Iwata--regarding the company's forthcoming Rhythm Heaven/Paradise/Tengoku sequel for Wii:

"The new Rhythm Paradise game we showed you in our Financial Results Briefing in January will be available this summer. I tried out a near-final version of the game, and felt that this Rhythm Paradise, playable with a TV monitor, never loses the uniqueness of the original Rhythm Paradise. In contrast to Wii Remote Plus Variety [aka Wii Play: Motion] I introduced before, this game is intentionally designed to be played only with buttons."



When Rhythm Heaven Wii was announced last year, I was sure the folks at Nintendo were going to force us to play it using motion controls--much like they forced us to use the touchscreen while playing the DS iteration. As such, it's a relief to hear that this second sequel will instead take the series back to the button-pressing roots of the GameBoy Advance original.

(For more on Rhythm Tengoku, read this post or even this one.)

4 comments:

Viewtiful_Justin said...

That's brilliant news! Gosh...I can't imagine trying to waggle for minutes at a time without wanting to break something...

Bryan Ochalla said...

I'm sure they could have made waggle work for *some* of the mini-games, but certainly not all of them. Plus, the GBA original was sooooo much more accessible thanks to the use of buttons (rather than touchscreen), IMO...

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Well, I'm excited to try it.

Bryan Ochalla said...

Here's hoping it comes to NA. Considering Nintendo of America's completely barren Wii schedule for the rest of the year, I think it may just happen...