RIP Rhythm Heaven 2006-2016

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>"You never know what's going to happen, but the way it looks right now, under Nintendo's current administration, Mother 3 will never leave Japan and there will never be another Rhythm Heaven game. Iwata was a driving force behind the Rhythm Heaven series, and a consistent advocate for NoA to at least look at the possibility of Mother 3 finding a new audience in the United States and Europe. With him gone, there is no one at Nintendo pushing for either anymore."

>"The core team behind the Rhythm Heaven series has more or less disbanded, and the last time anyone at NoA considered translating Mother 3, they shelved the game as soon as they got to the Magypsies. That was a while ago now, and if anything, management has gotten even less adventurous since then. Depicting Trans characters in a way that would likely insult both the political Left and the Right in the U.S., is the last kind of attention that Nintendo wants for themselves in 2017. They want nothing to do with those kinds of headlines and potential protests."

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Oh, and SJWs are responsible for Mother 3 never being officially released domestically.

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I bought mega mix but I figured it wouldnt help. Hopefully someone makes a spiritual successor to rhythm heaven at some point.

>killing the most recent Nintendo franchise that was worth a damn

Kimishima is fucking ruthless.

Kek weebs btfo

Good thing we got a great fan translation for Mother 3 nearly a fucking DECADE ago. Shame about Rhythm Heaven though.

Except I already have two reproductions cartridges of Mother 3

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Gotta try harder than that

The fan translation is fine, fantastic even. Mother 3 not coming over doesn't upset me.
Rhythm Heaven, on the other hand, is a God damn travesty.
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How faithful is the fan translation for Mother 3?

I don't think I've ever heard someone say anything bad about it.

Yet more indicators that Nintendo is not heading in the right direction

Megamix was an okay game, but kind of a bad way to end the series.

Mother 3 not getting brought over bc of Magypsys and stuff has been pretty obvious for some time now, it sucks but the fan one is better than anything official.

Rhythm Heaven being gone is awful though, I sincerely hope that's not the case because those games are some of my favorites.

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It's as faithful as you can get, to be blunt. The guy heading it (Tomato) is a pro translator and really big into the series, and handled the thing amazingly

>Rhythm Heaven is dead.
This hurts terribly, especially since all the new games in Megamix were fantastic.

>Iwata actually advocated for Mother 3 to be localized
Actually interesting to learn.

I hate this planet more and more

user E. Moose?

I know Mato does fan translations in his spare time and works at funimation.

I was just curious how faithful it was. Thanks though

Better and more faithful than anything NoA would produce.

matotree.com/translations/

Well damn that's an impressive resume.

wubadubdub is that true?

Can SJWs just die already?

You can start by shooting yourself in the head.

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I guess I should feel a bit guilty about pirating it, but I really don't.

B-b-b-but it's not official reeeeeee I can't gieb Nintendies my money for it!

Mother 3 has been localized for years.

>no more Rhythm Heaven games ever again
what's the point of living

>the last Rhythm Heaven game to be localized is a mashup collection with a shit mandatory story mode

Fuck Nintendo.

What was your favorite moment in Mother 3?

What made you tear up?

The Mother 3 situation doesn't really bother me, except maybe in the sense of supporting the actual franchise/series. We already have a great, if not fantastic fan translation that is at a professional level for it and it's easily available for everyone to download and witness all that was left untranslated for everyone except Japan itself. Mato did a great job for something this daunting (the game itself is massive in concerns to dialogue and text). The only way you could have had to support the series would be to purchase a Japanese GBA copy back then and I don't think the money no longer goes to the actual company nowadays.

Even if we're no longer able to show our support for the series unless by buying the franchise related titles by VC, I'm sure Nintendo more than knows the love and dedication the fanbase has for this franchise.

Regarding Rhythm Heaven, I think this was going to happen inevitably either way, with or without Iwata. If I'm not mistaken, Tsunku had a very serious condition regarding his throat. Whatever came of that, I'm not sure, but he probably never came to fully recovering 100%. It doesn't make the situation any less sad, but at the same time, the franchise was reaching that point of stagnation where they weren't sure how to keep the series from stagnating any further (coming up with ways to innovate the franchise), so in a way, maybe this was the right call as to not make a franchise last more than it should for the wrong reasons.

>Huge as fuck list
>Translated the Super Robot Wars GBA game too
This guy is great, basically did what many failed

>wanting mother 3 localized by modern NoA

I'll keep my fan translation thank you very much

good post

Dat Eva style ending and I never cried.

>Jonathan Holmes
It's bullshit. He makes stuff up all the time.

>Rhythm Heaven is Fucking dead
>Warioware only relevancy today is Ashley, Not as a Character, But a Pedobait
>Mario Party will be Never Good again

Does Nintendo started to Hate Minigames

>opinion
stopped reading there
stop posting garbage """"""""""""""""""""journalism """"""""""""""""""""

Did Rhythm Heaven not sell well? The games seemed to be fairly popular when they were localized.

As far as Mother 3 is concerned, good. As much as I'd love to see Nintendo fully embrace the Mother series and release it internationally, you just know the localization process would destroy Mother 3's excellently crafted story. I'm usually never one to give a shit about localization, but Tomato's spot on Mother 3 fan translation is the only way I would imagine the English language would do justice to the finale of the Mother trilogy. Nintendo's profits be damned, I never want to see the Treehouse touch Mother 3

>WarioWare's only relevancy today is Ashley, not as a character, but as pedobait

Stop reminding me constantly of this character and about how much porn it brought out, further drowning Wario and the franchise itself in literal pure smut of her.

>When you just want to search for Wario fan art in his tag on Pixiv by searching only by his Japanese name, but it somehow brings out Ashley fan art/porn each and every time

Any reason why NoA couldn't just pay for the fan translation and stick it on VC?

I even brought every Rhythm Heaven to date, F. Good thing im playing Mother 3 on my 3ds though since I knew that was never coming over.

Post favorite song or game.

Fuck off, this has nothing to do with SJWs.

It might not, but you know deep down that the Anita Sarkeesians of the world who don't care about games and just like anything they can use to bitch about their agendas would see the Magypsies and cause a huge fucking commotion about transgenders

Eat shit you fucking chorus kid faggots

>Smash autist
Go away

Why do you think half the shit gets censored in Nintendo games nowadays.

Protip: It's not the Christian soccer moms anymore.

>Nintendo died with Iwata

Is this supposed to be news? I thought everyone agreed on that back in 2015.

But he didn't kill Splatoon.

>opinion

Or maybe you are just stupid.
Nintendo has been doing this kind of thing from the start you underage retard, nothing has changed.

>Fruits Basket

I was happy forgetting that even existed up until now. I'll never know what my sister saw in that shit.

>Tfw she shares a name with my sister
>Whenever I see Ashley Porn the mental image of my sister in the nude pops up

>Nintendo has been doing this kind of thing from the start you underage retard, nothing has changed.

No you moron. They eased up considerably from the mid-90s to the start of the 2010s, after the ESRB was established, and the fifth generation of consoles set in.

You might have occasionally seen one or two minor revisions in that in-between period, but nothing on the scale of some of the Castlevania games, which stripped themselves of all violence, and religion references.

And by violence, I mean things like blood and gore. Enemies in the western version of Super Castlevania IV, for instance, would explode and disappear in a poof, instead of bleed.

>the franchise was reaching that point of stagnation where they weren't sure how to keep the series from stagnating any further
The thing is that they didn't really need to innovate with every single game. It's not like Fever was fundamentally different from Tengoku, and even when put to buttons the games from Gold were just the same. We saw the different ideas they had over the course of the games, and Megamix proved the new songs and ideas they had were still really good, the only thing they dropped the ball on were remixes. I don't see why the main team couldn't keep making sillier and more outrageous premises tied to good music, but if it has to die then so be it.

TaneTane Island was fantastic, I always love trippy moments in otherwise "normal" games

We already knew Mother 3 would never be localized officially.

Why does anyone hold out hope?

It eased a bit but it never went away and you can't blame the SJW boogeyman for something Nintendo has been doing long before you were born you stupid underage faggot.

Yeah, actually, it kind of did pretty much go away for years, or are you seriously trying to argue that the slew of censored releases from late 2015 through 2016 was the norm? Cause I can tell you it wasn't.

Still with that Mother 3 thing?

move on holy shit.

i think the only time i felt bad/sad was the mechadrago fight

beyond that it feels like it tries too hard since hinawa dies about a half hour into the game and before that you only spent 5-10 minutes with her

is she attractive at least?

People refusing to localize a game out of fear that SJWs would riot means it does have to do with SJWs.

I miss Captain Syrup.

An underage moron like you don't know what the norm was.
>I am a retarded faggot that thinks anyone would gave a shit about DOAX3

And he replies with a non-argument. Pack it up folks.

They literally said they don't want to localize the game primarily because they're afraid how SJWs would react to the magypsies. You can't get much more direct than that.
Do you have any arguments that aren't ad hominum?

>"Fuck off this has nothing to do with them"
>Yes it is, they've been doing this for the longest time, it's just a different group now
>"Nintendo has been doing this forever you retard, nothing changed"
Thanks for agreeing with the retard, you retard

>Tsunku had a very serious condition regarding his throat.

Throat cancer, of all things. Which is doubly worse because he's a singer.

When will we get a new elite beat agents? When will we get new rhythm games instead of indie survival open world meme games

Said the retard with a non-argument.
If you took your mom's dick out of your retard mouth and read what op posted you would see they did not want to deal with shit from the Left and the Right they are playing it safe and not taking a side.
So you are a retard that does not know what is going on?

I remember them changing the name of an NPC, but that's it. Fassad was previously something else, I believe?

Of course not, Splatoon is worthless. Can't you read?

MegaMix was a success though. Kimishima (before the game was even announced for English territories) mentioned in an interview about the 3DS that he was happy over the sales of games like MegaMix, K: Triple Deluxe, and others. Why are we concerned about the Rhythm Heaven series?

You intolerant fuck, self censorship is censorship. They are afraid of backlash from SJWs, that's why they've taken to censoring themselves.

>Sjws have no real use in this conversation
>but anyway heres why im angry at blue hairs

fuckn peachy, m8

>Depicting Trans characters in a way that would likely insult both the political Left

The worst thing that Megamix did was think that it needed to have more "substance" to it with the complex menu system, story, and extra content, plus the localization was pretty poorly done.

All Rhythm Heaven ever needed in its sequels is new minigames because the overall presentation is absolutely perfect. No need for pointless content and fluff.

Flint just fucking losing it after finding out about Hinawa killed me.

Why is this something that keeps you up at night and not something you stopped thinking about as soon as your heard it?
Wheres the payoff to the obsession?

When I beat it for the first time and didn't press any buttons after the "Emd?" screen. I thought that was all there was to the game and it hit me hard.
The real ending is worse and too long.

>An article full of nothing but speculation
Why.

If you project any harder you'll blind me. It's word by word what is on the article. What is your agenda trying to deny it?

You retarder faggot with bad ob. Nintendo is playing safe like it tends to do, knows they can easily draw fire no matter how they handled it so they stay away. Nintendo does not want to piss the Left or the Right off so they take a middle ground of sorts. Also I am not saying I am ok with it, I am telling why it is happening.

I didnt read shit nigg
Im just fascinated in the juvenile lovehate boner for anything that stinks of social justice pussy or has been anywhere near close to it

>agenda
See thats the problem
assuming everyone has some game to play against you

in slightly related to the thread

I hope they release Mother 3 on the Nintendo 64 mini so the game can be played the way it was always meant to

You got a warped idea of self censorship if you think its something new

Everyone always does it, esspecially companies where any words parted are always 100% on the record everytime
Everyone is abstaining from saying any dumb shit, or what they really think.
The reality is, it doesn't fucking matter what a figurehead of a company thinks or says officially. If it doesn't grow the brand, don't bother.

If companies weren't self censoring for the sake of tumblrisms, they were self censoring for the sake of religious folks. Nintendo were kings at that.

Well, maybe next time you should read things before voicing your blind and ignorant opinions on them.

Honestly I liked some of the additions.
The challenge train is a cute diversion that gives you something to do other than go for medals and perfects and it tests whether you know rhythm or just timing with those tempo-up segments. The skill stars are along the same lines in terms of getting you to play games beyond simply getting a superb on them and waiting for a chance to get a perfect on them. The scoring system being more transparent helps too, since now you have a gauge of just how good at rhythm you are in the form of a formalized score that other rhythm games are known for, plus you can actually use the bottom screen to help correct your pacing if you're slightly off-beat.
The stage UI definitely didn't need the downgrade, especially since in the endgame you're spending all of your time in the museum and toggling over the the challenges to do perfects/train, so the main map is actively intrusive and the mandatory dialog before trying a perfect makes the retry period take way longer than simply click-click-go.
Honestly I was pretty satisfied with it aside from the gate/endless games being pretty boring/annoying aside from Sick Beats which is itself pretty great to play on its own but not enough to carry. Fever probably had the best endless games (aside from Wake Up Caller), a shame that Manzai got replaced with fucking Mr. Upbeat. I can't recall how much time I spent just playing Kung Fu Ball with a wiimote in each hand.

At least you weren't greentexting like a fagg, ty ty
On with ya day then

Please, someone tell me this is clickbait. I can't accept the death of rhythm paradise...;_;

>opinion

It is. Its just some dumb opinion article claiming to have "SECRET" sources.

I mean the metroid prime team disabanded years ago and yet we're still getting 4. It means nothing.