Taken on its own, this isn’t a big deal, but often times you’ll need to flick several times in a row, one after another. You can stroke in any direction, and it doesn’t have to be a long stroke, but the game can be awfully picky about detecting your flick. In some cases, you need to tap, hold the stylus, and then flick. Flicking, on the other hand, requires making a quick striking motion on the touch screen. Tapping is, of course, easy enough, as is sliding.

There are three basic motions – tapping, sliding and flicking.

While it’s a good change of pace, the change to touch screen controls isn’t necessarily for the best. The DS is also held sideways, like Hotel Dusk and Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, so the action screen is on the left, and the touch screen is on the right. The simplicity of the original Rhythm Tengoku posed a bit of a problem – how, exactly, would you evolve the gameplay beyond what was already there, without ruining what made it so involving in the first place? So, this game is controlled completely by the stylus, echoing similar rhythm games for the system like Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents. Furthermore, while the original title never made it outside of Japan, Nintendo released in the game in other territories, known as Rhythm Heaven in North America and Rhythm Paradise in Europe. In 2008, they finally published a sequel, Rhythm Tengoku Gold, for the Nintendo DS. Even though Rhythm Tengoku was one of the last GBA games released by Nintendo, it still proved remarkably successful.

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