Early this week, I picked up a copy of Rhythm Heaven for $5 in a bargain bin on a lark. (By which I obviously mean the bin itself was on top of a lark.)
I should preface this by saying the Wario Ware series has, as of late, been upable to recapture the magic of the first few games. They are mini-game collections, yes, but lack that "a bunch of mini-games back to back" factor.
Well, it seems that team ended up making a new series, and that's what Rhythm Heaven IS! You start off on each "tier" playing 4 mini-games, then they are all tossed together in a "Remix" that's basically Wario Ware, but with one difference. That difference is the rhythm, the rhythm is gonna get ya. You see, every mini-game has a song, a beat. You can play each mini-game, technically, just by listening to the beat and not even looking at what's going on (though the visual cues do still help). The remixes create a whole new tune to tie in a bunch of previous mini-games, so it doesn't get stale. It is also COMPLETE INSANITY.
I fell in love with this impulse buy within a day. I then went back to the store and picked up a Wii game released just last year called Rhythm Heaven Fever. I have no idea how I missed out on this gem! This is one of the best best things ever ever!
This is my new obsession, but wow, the demands on your rhythmatrix are beyond insane. The very last Remix remixes EVERY LAST ONE of the mini-games into pure madness.
Just to see if it could be done, I looked up remix 10 on youtube. These people are divine! Watch, and weep!
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Behold!
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Awesome season Red Sox... no one thought that you'd win the World Series back at the beginning of the year, and no experts thought that the Sox had a chance, but you proved everyone wrong and did it, and with a World Series win at home for the first time in 95 years! Just awesome. I'm very happy. :)
Also, I know this is from game one, but I don't think it's possible to look at this without laughing...
(Note -- this is a moment after the pitcher (top) waved his hands, as if he was saying "I've got this ball." And then... well, you see what he did next: nothing.
It'll be coming to PC as well. That's great, as that's the version I have. Further, it'll be released as an update as well as a full product, for those who already own the game. For me, since I own the PC version as well as the DLC, this update comes to $5. That's something I'm willing to pay for all these improvements (such as the DLC actually being streamlined into the main story as it should have been). It seems the PC version will have tablet support to basically copy the Wii U gamepad functionality, for those who want that.
What a difference a year makes! The Red Sox, in the World Series again for the first time since '07... wow. Before this season I would not have guessed that we'd get this far; of course you're always hopeful, but making it to the World Series, just a year after we finished in last place? Wow!
So yeah, it's pretty awesome. Oh, and it's a rematch against our opponents from '04, the Cardinals. They're clearly very good, but hopefully we figure it out again and win this one too. It'd be pretty awesome. :)
I've seen enough modern classrooms lately that I can say that TV shows seem to be under the impression that schools still exist in 1982.
They are using CHALK BOARDS of all things. Every modern class room I've seen is using a massive touch screen projector system instead. Also, why do teachers just have paper on their desks? Where's their computers?
I won't rewrite my post about how stupid the Republicans are acting and how the extremists who run the party now are anti-democratic, but yeah, those things are true. It really is fantastic that the Democrats are not caving this time, and as time progresses, the Republicans have edged closer and closer to surrender. Now they're talking about what they want, but they've backed down from "we must kill health care reform"; now they're just going back to bad old Republican ideas about shrinking government, cutting taxes, etc. Their demands are still quite unreasonable, though, and Obama and Harry Reid have no reason to give in now. And indeed, they aren't. The Republicans will need to give up a lot more of what they want before they get anywhere, for sure. And that's good -- we cannot allow them to destroy the government, or the government's ability to function, just because of their ideological crusade against the concept of governance (unless it's THEIR medicare/social security in question, that they want!).
Also, it's good that some of the Senate Republicans, who are not nearly as affected by the gerrymandering problem (once again, gerrymandering leads to house districts being more polarized because most members have no threat from the other party -- it's a very, very serious problem in our government right now), aren't quite as crazy as the House, or Ted Cruz, are. They're still wrong, but not completely out of their minds extreme...
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