{"id":828,"date":"2009-06-28T21:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:12:39","slug":"rhythm-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rhythmheaven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rhythmheaven.jpg\" alt=\"rhythmheaven\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rhythmheaven.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rhythmheaven-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Platform:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Nintendo Wii<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Developer:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Nintendo<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n the context of contemporary Nintendo&#8217;s gaming philosophy of bringing gaming to the masses through accessibility, I don&#8217;t quite understand how this game came to be.<\/p>\n<p>Ostensibly a series of musical mini-games that are based around timing and &#8216;Simon-says&#8217; repetition challenges, <em>Rhythm Heaven<\/em> has a charming presentation style and after the first two mini-games &#8216;Built to Scale&#8217; and &#8216;Glee Club&#8217;, I was quickly won over.<\/p>\n<p>Ten stages later however, I put the game down, all the goodwill was spoiled and didn&#8217;t come back to it.\u00a0 I want to love this game but it is simply too difficult.\u00a0 The Nintendo soft-touch is mysteriously absent here.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t complete a stage perfectly, even a single mistake will see you scored as &#8216;just okay&#8217; and you are rewarded with a negative musical chord.\u00a0 Then the later stages, the table tennis one in particular, are just stupidly hard and took me multiple attempts to complete.\u00a0 This is completely at odds with the friendly and cheerful presentation and I think is a rather severe\u00a0 misjudgment on the designer&#8217;s part.\u00a0 The presentation appears to invite you in for some entertaining bite-sized levels that you could finish in a coffee break but the level of concentration and difficulty curve just kill it dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform:\u00a0 Nintendo Wii Developer:\u00a0 Nintendo In the context of contemporary Nintendo&#8217;s gaming philosophy of bringing gaming to the masses through accessibility, I don&#8217;t quite understand how this game came to be. Ostensibly a series of musical mini-games that are based around timing and &#8216;Simon-says&#8217; repetition challenges, Rhythm Heaven has a charming presentation style and after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,11,295,292],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-5-second-review","tag-nintendods","tag-rhythm-heaven","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14903,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/14903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}