Erich spends a good hour trying to separate feuding Canadians Steve and Adam, all while talking games like the Mothership Zeta expansion to Fallout 3, the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo, Left 4 Dead, Wii Sports Resort, Rhythm Heaven, and a massive MMORPG discussion ranging from World of Warcraft to the new documentary Second Skin. In news, Star Wars hits the Virtual Console, Steve loves the Brutal Legend soundtrack, Bioshock 2 has an S.O.S. for the world, Madden 10 has swimsuit issues, and Guitar Hero 5 takes its guns to town. This week’s Symposium Ad Nauseum is surprisingly tricky, but not as tricky as getting Steve to kick off a brand new segment.
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Nintendo’s DSi handheld comes out on Sunday, April 5, and alongside it will be the North American release of a Japanese game that’s been on many an import-lover’s list since it came out last fall: Rhythm Tengoku Gold—or, as it’s being called in the States, Rhythm Heaven. I haven’t gotten my mitts on the final game yet, but I plugged in my Wii earlier in the week to download the demo via the DS demo functionality of the otherwise-lackluster Nintendo Channel. I knew hardly anything about Rhythm Heaven before Satoru Iwata handed out free copies to those who attended his GDC keynote. Heck, I thought it was a drumming simulator. I was way off.