Fruit Basket

Fruit Basket (フルーツバスケット furutsu basuketto) is the eighth minigame introduded in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. In this game, the player controls Ground Dunker, bouncing fruits to get it into the basketball net outside in a happy looking field.

A sequel later appears in Machine Tower under the title Fruit Basket 2.

Gameplay
Press A - To bounce the fruit into the basketball. There are three kinds of fruit. Apples which have a normal beat. Lemons on the other half is offbeat. Please note that the melons do not appear in this variant.

Button Mode

 * A: Dunk the fruit

Simple Tap Mode

 * Tap: Dunk the fruit

Timing Notes

 * Hit: The fruit successfully gets bounced and shoots onto the basketball net.
 * Barely: The fruit bounces but misses the basket for being too late or too early. A barely counts as a miss.
 * Miss: The fruit is utterly missed and passes right by.

Rating Notes

 * Try Again: "I hope the rain stops soon..."
 * OK: "You gotta sweat for it!"
 * Superb: "Nothing but net!"

Skill Star
The Skill Star can be collected when you bounce two lemons at the very end of the minigame.

Trivia

 * Some of the things the ground can think about are, a game of tic-tac-toe, his girlfriend, a dog, a hamburger and shake, himself as a skateboard, a little spider, and a panda.