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Rhythm Heaven Fever spreads to North America in February

by JC Fletcher on Nov 29th 2011 6:00PM

Open the latest issue of Nintendo Power and you'll find yourself looking at four pages of heaven. Rhythm Heaven, specifically. The magazine drops the news we've been waiting for: an official release window for the Wii iteration of Nintendo and Tsunku's musical minigame series, titled Rhythm Heaven Fever. It's set for February 2012.

The article introduces several of the vibrantly cartoonish, inexplicable activities in which you'll engage, including seesaw inspection, tambourine practice with a monkey instructor, and protecting your date from an onslaught of soccer balls.

[Thanks, Aileen!]

Tags: nintendo, q1-2012, release-date, rhythm-heaven, rhythm-heaven-fever, tsunku, wii

Reader Comments (24)

EFF. YES.

@Derp Sandwich
I emphatically second this emotion.

Speaking of Rhythm Heaven...

THIS! http://youtu.be/y4XwUw3BFOM

@Marty McFly

i think this is finally relevant in a conversation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JreNlEi-M5g&feature=related

I really liked the DS game. Unfortunately I got stuck at the love lab level, just couldn't figure out the rhythm. Then I never really got back into it.

@HighFiveJesus

Some were mind-alteringly tricky. Well maybe I'm exaggerating. But some were legitimately difficult.

@Shadowbender

the problem is, i had every other level up to that point down real well. but i couldn't beat the lab level so.. i never saw what came after it.

@HighFiveJesus Go to the cafe when there's a little "!" over the icon and the guy will offer to skip the level for you.

@HighFiveJesus
I got stuck at the Moai statue one but eventually I got it randomly when I picked up RH one day. No idea what happened.

Guess who approves?

Me.

Cannot wait.

I'll get this, but not at launch. February is already a crazy month for games.

can't wait :D

With piracy being as wide spread as it is on the Wii and the Wii U on the horizon, it's pretty stupid to release Rhythm Heaven this late. And here in Europe we still don't have a release date.

Any way, I played this game already and it's awesome. Wish they wouldn't translate the songs like they did on the DS-version. The Japanese music adds to the weirdness of the game.

I also don't get why they don't rerelease the GBA version on Virtual Console, or even better, the Japanese arcade port of the GBA game (yes, they ported a GBA game to the arcade, including pixelized graphics). Those are still the very best versions of Rhythm Heaven and it's a pity most gamers never had the opportunity to play any of those two.

@Melf
Stop whining and being pretentious. Stop it now.

@Melf N-O

@LittleMofreaky NOSE? http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50269_364026346109_3049891_n.jpg

I really want this game.

@Soiden agreed

something something i suppose.

ANyone else been playing the Japanese version?

I like the Notebook Girls and the Wrestler Interview... but I hate that Daisuki rap!

@pluupy stfu, play the games and see if you disagree.

after playing beat city, i didn't think rhythm heavean was in the same league.

Just don't screw up the songs with lyrics and you'll have my money. Especially the Love Rap and remix levels.

Some of the vocal performances in the DS game were downright terrible.

I may get this is I see it for $20 somewhere. The DS Rhythem Heaven was fun for a while, but it just got too damn hard for me. I appriciate the ability to skip levels after trying them but I didn't want to rely on that, especially when I was missing out on several cool unlockables. I know that it's cause I have no rhythem, but still, some difficulty settings to make it a bit less lienent would have been nice.

And there weren't enough vocalized songs. god knows I loved Fan Club to death, and the brady bunch/cheerleader one, but the others I tried felt lackluster (especially the rock n roll frog). We need more of those.

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