Mithos Yggdrasill
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Segata Sanshiro said:
Thanks for the translation. Wario land Shake is still here !
Another 10k for New Super Mario Bros. At this rate, it could pass 5.5 millions!
Media Create Sales: 08/04 - 08/10
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Thanks for the translation. Wario land Shake is still here !
Another 10k for New Super Mario Bros. At this rate, it could pass 5.5 millions!
RpgN
Junior Member
Neomoto said:
Can you tell me what the game is about in a nutshell?
And looks like my prediction of TOV 130k lifetime is pretty close. There's a small chance for this game to chart next week in the top 10.
Hardware sales are indeed very good this week. Almost all of them sold more than last week except for the xbox 360.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
I think thats about it.Segata Sanshiro said:
AnimeTheme
Member
Rhythm Tengoku Gold looks like it will be another long-legged monster. I think it is one of the major forces that pushes the recent growth of DS hardware.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Ahh thanks. I'll fix up the post.Kurosaki Ichigo said:
BishopLamont
Banned
Yep, and that holiday didn't hurt either.AnimeTheme said:
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Opening week was a bit worse, keeping pace since then if I recall correctly.sphinx said:
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
Segata Sanshiro said:
Back from the dead again... monstrous game.
charlequin
Banned
Wow, lots of good news this week. DQ5 is still kicking at a good pace, and FE DS has put up good numbers this week as well.
Rhythm Tengoku Gold is the real story this week, though. What a huge success for this game so far.
Rhythm Tengoku Gold is the real story this week, though. What a huge success for this game so far.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
schuelma said:
Seriously, OMG PS3 beat PS2 by 1k
Everyone here knew the sales would return to normal, especially with MS saying they have no more stock and have just sent a new shipment to JP
So, looks like the last version took 5 months to get to 69-70k, FFIV should easily get to those numbers in a quicker time frame
More proof that Wii games have legs I guess, similar to how things are working in the US
Sure, it's a pure rhythm game (but I assume you got that already because it's in the title hehe). Sort of like with Ouendan you have to time your actions. You don't make music, you time on the beat and exactly on the beat. In the game you have a series of scenarios stages. For example, a girl is singing a song on a stage and you are a monkey as part of 6 monkeys that dance on the music (I'm not making this shit up :lol but when you see it with your own eyes, it puts a smile on your face because it's awesome). You clap "your" hands 4 times on the beat as part of the show, and also a waving motion with a clap (in which you hold your hands together for a second after the clap), and another clap followed by a jump in the air. During the song, at "scripted" events you have to perform them, first the clapping 4 times, and when the next event the other part. Like a cycle, it will repeat in this case. In other scenario's so far, either the way you have to perform tasks changes or speed or difficulty increases.RpgN said:
To do all this you basicly have 3 "buttons" to perform actions with, but instead of pressing buttons you of course use the touchscreen (in which you hold the DS like a book, similar to say Brain Training or Point & Click games on the DS). Tap on the touchscreen and in this case you clap in your hands, tap and hold the stylus down and you do the second motion, tap and swipe upwards and you clap and (when sliding) you jump in the air.
When you perform everything exactly on the beat the scenario plays out perfectly and you "win". If you get even one beat wrong, the remaining 5 monkeys that show their backside to you the whole time look sideways to "your" monkey and look in disgust / anger. :lol (I think the girl singing shows a sign of irritation too) It's hilarious imo. You get points and such based on your performance (either you fail, you pass with a "hmm.. well alright.." rating or you do a great job. There is a 4th rating, "perfect" but you only sometimes get an upportunity to try a scenario 3 times to get a perfect rating. If you pass one, you unlock the next one. With every scenario, you have a tutorial like system, in which you can get a hang of the motions you have to do before you do it "for real". The text is in Japanese but when you try what your supposed to do it all makes sense.
In this case scenario you had to do predefined actions in a group setting, but there are also scenario's where you have to repeat something exactly like someone else has done. Or react to them in a similar way, or have ongoing timed actions with increased difficulty etc. Very much diversity.
The game and gameplay focuses SO much on rhythm that you can play the game with your eyes closed if you want to. In fact, at some cases I already did sometimes because I didn't want to accidently make a mistake to get the gold rating so I focussed on the music and rhythm as much as I can. The game is really awesome imo.
Don't know how all this sounds to someone who doesn't know the game, and perhaps I didn't explain it very good but the gameplay is great imo. It uses "stylized Nintendo" and perhaps even quirky graphics (2D and sometimes 3D graphics but with "2D gameplay" but I'm not so far in the game so don't know about the ratio or something). The music is great (so far at least) even without earphones but with them on it's really good, replayability so far is very good, a lot of variation / diversity in scenario's, very high pick-up and play type game, but also suitable for long sessions. Oh, and lastly, the difficulty is pretty high. Not dumbed down or anything like that, it will kick your ass if you want a near perfect rating, let alone perfect rating since you only get 3 changes and then you have to wait for another randomly chosen stage to try again. You have to basicly know the scenario and events like the back of your hand and constantly have to get it right every time. And then you have remixes that (I only have 1 remix so far), combines the previous (in this case) 5 scenario's and mixes them together, starting "slow" but the speed increases rapidly and like with all the other scenario's you can only make 1 or 2 mistakes (which is very little) to get a gold rating (near perfect).
The fact that's it's Japanese hasn't bother me at all, only "problem" is the menu but you can get translations online I think. If you like these kinds of games, I would definitely recommend it.
sphinx said:
If it sells another 5k that will put it at 55k-ish, leaving only 15k or so to go to beat the previous installments
Just because it falls out of the Top 20 does not mean it stops selling forever
It could sell 1k a week or less and still top the other editions by Jan 1 2009
gantz85 said:
Yeah no shit- because the 360 beating PS3 is surprising, while PS3 beating 360 is commonplace.
What do you want us to say? Something like this?
"After briefly giving up its dominance in the sub 15K category of Japanese Weekly sales, Sony roared back with a stellar thirteen thousand week, dealing the resurgant XBOX a dose of reality. This will most likely lead to Japanese developers announcing a slew of PS3 exlusives to take advantage of the rapidly increasing userbase. Expect most 360 projects to be quietely cancelled"
Is that better?
BishopLamont
Banned
Oh wow.gantz85 said:
squatingyeti
non-sanctioned troll
gantz85 said:
Poor guy, he's even in defensive mode when they are beating the 360. Maybe you should direct some anger toward the PS2, it is also creeping up on the PS3 :lol .
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
botticus said:
Price collapse, didn't get a second shipment.
Did sell through its first shipment eventually, though. So not ASH or Seiken Densetsu 4 level bomb.
Cosmonaut X
Member
gantz85 said:
Were you not told by a mod to take it up with them if you had an issue? Perhaps you might like to take that advice.
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Holy crap, DS takes back its throne
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
Go Phantasy Star, you can make it to 700,000
perfectchaos007
Member
DS outselling PSP again finally. Now the Wii needs to start doing the same if it ever wants a chance at a better LTD than the PSP
Souldriver
Member
I don't go telling everyone that the sky is blue when I woke up this morning. I would go tell everyone however, if the sky was pink.gantz85 said:
I don't know guys. I think it's pretty obvious that the schools must have gone out for all the kids in Japan again, obviously there is no other valid reason to explain both a boost in DS hardware and in DS software the last few weeks.
;-)
Glad to see it's on your wishlist. Playing is really believing though, there is also a active thread on GAF about the game if you want to read more about the game or impressions or something (don't know how spoilery it is though). And yeah I could see myself playing this for a long time.
;-)
Hehe, no problemRpgN said:When you describe it like that it does sound very much like Quendan but without the cheerleaders. Hard is a good plus. And it seems you're totally addicted to it
Glad to see it's on your wishlist. Playing is really believing though, there is also a active thread on GAF about the game if you want to read more about the game or impressions or something (don't know how spoilery it is though). And yeah I could see myself playing this for a long time. distantmantra
Member
Whoops.
Phife Dawg
Member
Man, RTG is really doing splendid. Good sales all around too.
WHOA, 360 might be fucked in Japan after all :lol .gantz85 said:
Did they hurt you? Those meanies! Here, have a cookie, it'll all be good.gantz85 said: