Picked up the game yesterday (on my birthday, hooray!). Played it for about an hour last night, so I thought I would give some early impressions here.
First off, the game feels HARD. Bare in mind I've played Rhythm Tengoku on GBA, and Rhythm Tengoku Gold on DS, and should be safe to say that I am pretty good at both of these (all Perfected bar 1 or 2 songs). I am only up to the 10th stage (2nd remix), but I have already struggled through a few of the stages. I don't know if it's because I played it late night and my reflexes are slow at the time, but I keep failing on some of the stages. But even with the early stages, there are many that requires 'half-beat' button presses.
The timing of the button presses seems even more punishing than ever. It seems that moving back from being touchscreen to buttons, they decided to make it even more precise. You really have to be spot on! I just can't imagine how it would be like when it comes to the Perfect Campaign challenges.
So far the music of the first 10 stages is a good mix of wacky and smoothing music. Everything you would expect from a Rhythm Tengoku game is in here.
Graphically, it's a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes the game feels like a completely blown up GBA/DS game, especially the stage select screen and also at the end of a song when they display a small picture. It's definitely not a game that shows the graphical power of the console (and well, it never has been).
So far I really like it. It's Rhythm Heaven on the Wii! Just happy to be playing it.
EDIT:
Video impression courtesy of mehdi_san! Thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65MekHZqFEI
First off, the game feels HARD. Bare in mind I've played Rhythm Tengoku on GBA, and Rhythm Tengoku Gold on DS, and should be safe to say that I am pretty good at both of these (all Perfected bar 1 or 2 songs). I am only up to the 10th stage (2nd remix), but I have already struggled through a few of the stages. I don't know if it's because I played it late night and my reflexes are slow at the time, but I keep failing on some of the stages. But even with the early stages, there are many that requires 'half-beat' button presses.
The timing of the button presses seems even more punishing than ever. It seems that moving back from being touchscreen to buttons, they decided to make it even more precise. You really have to be spot on! I just can't imagine how it would be like when it comes to the Perfect Campaign challenges.
So far the music of the first 10 stages is a good mix of wacky and smoothing music. Everything you would expect from a Rhythm Tengoku game is in here.
Graphically, it's a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes the game feels like a completely blown up GBA/DS game, especially the stage select screen and also at the end of a song when they display a small picture. It's definitely not a game that shows the graphical power of the console (and well, it never has been).
So far I really like it. It's Rhythm Heaven on the Wii! Just happy to be playing it.
EDIT:
Video impression courtesy of mehdi_san! Thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65MekHZqFEI