Added Alliterative Appeal: Tons of minigame names.

555: All of the phone numbers for Heaven's Phone toy start with 555.

100% Completion: Good luck getting a Perfect on every game!.

That is most prominently featured in Lockstep in Heaven, where you'll cruise after you get how to switch from the beat to off-beat, but completely flop if you just try to 'muscle' your way through. On an interesting note, it is one of the few rhythm games to actually be about 'rhythm' and not just rapid timing. Half Rhythm Game, half Minigame Game, Rhythm Heaven is a definite hidden gem in Nintendo's catalog.

Helping a sentient street toss fruit, rolling out of pipes, into basketball hoopsĪnd that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Translating what's being said by a jellyfish-like alien on live television.

Piloting a rocket powered by anthropomorphic tuning forks across a surreal landscape.

Controlling a member of a quartet of dancing shrimp.

Shaking and tossing flasks to create hearts in a laboratory devoted to studying the science of love.

Stomping around a garden to pluck beets from the ground.

Helping a rabbit jump across whales and turtles to reach the moon.

Hitting baseballs expelled by a flowerpot while floating in space.

The mini-games themselves are exactly what one would expect from the team responsible for WarioWare: Quirky, bizarre, and generally addictive. Completing the Remix unlocks the next set. After completing a set of games, the player is challenged to a Remix game that includes each game of the set.

Doing so nets a Perfect rating, which unlocks bonus information on the mini-game or adds another song to the sound test. Sometimes the game challenges the player to complete a mini-game flawlessly. A Superb rating awards the player with a medal collecting these allows bonus features such as endless mini-games to be unlocked. If a player gets a Try Again rating, they can't progress to the next mini-game until they can get one of the higher ratings. Upon completion of each mini-game, the player's performance is evaluated and given a ranking: Try Again, OK, or Superb.

The game is divided into sets of four or five music-based mini-games, which are completed by pressing buttons (or flicking and tapping the touch screen) in time with the rhythm. Despite this, the DS sequel (known as Rhythm Tengoku Gold in Japanese) would receive an overseas release to a positive reception, with two more sequels following.

Naturally this meant that it would be released only in Japan, not unlike the case with Mother 3. The first game in the series was released on the GBA in late 2006, making it the last game that Nintendo developed for the system, and later in arcades as a joint project between Nintendo and SEGA.

Rhythm Heaven, known in Japanese as Rhythm Tengoku and as Rhythm Paradise in European languages, can best be described as WarioWare meets Elite Beat Agents.

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