Fruit Basket

Fruit Basket

Time to put a fresh and surprisingly literal spin on the idea of "street basketball." Also, fruit!

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

Fruit Basket (フルーツバスケット Fruit Basket) is the eighth minigame introduded in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. In this game, the player controls Courtney, the blue ground, who is 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

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Courtney must bounce fruits to the beat as they roll across him. Pressing A will bounce the fruit off of his head and into the basketball net.

There are two kinds of fruits: apples, which require 2 beats, and lemons, which require 4 beats. Note that the melons do not appear in this variant.

Controls

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, and Courtney has a shocked/dazed look on his face. A barely counts as a miss.
• Miss: The fruit is utterly missed and passes right by.

Results

	Word from the Street
	Hmmm, you could use a bit more apple practice. The lemons left you sour.
	Eh. Passable.
	How 'bout dem apples?! Woohoo! Fresh-squeezed goodness!

Epilogue

• Fruit Basket Story Try Again.PNG

  "I hope the rain stops soon..."

• Fruit Basket Story OK.PNG

  "You gotta sweat for it!"

• Fruit Basket Story Superb.PNG

  "Nothing but net!"

Rhythm Item

Basketball

Basketball	Who Threw These?
File:Sprite 3DS Rhythm Item Basketball.png.png	Sometimes, basketballs and fruit come zooming over the fence from the school next door. I always look over the fence, but there's no one there. Is the basketball court haunted?

Skill Star

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

Appearances

• Slamdunked001.png

  Fruit Basket

• Fruit Basket 2 Final Remix.png

  Fruit Basket 2
  Final Remix

• Fruit Basket 2 Machine.png

  Machine Remix

Trivia

• Some of the things Courtney can think about are:

1. A game of Tic-Tac-Toe
2. His Girlfriend
3. A Dog
4. A Hamburger and a Shake
5. Himself as a Skateboard
6. A Spider
7. A Panda

• In the American, European and Korean releases, the garage door from the Machine Remix was replaced with (presumably) Mr. Chicken from Charging Chicken with his car.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	フルーツバスケット Fruit Basket
French	Paniers de fruits
Spanish	Frutoncesto	Play on words "fruta" (fruit) and "baloncesto" (basketball)
Italian	Canestro di Frutta
Korean	과일 농구 Fruit Basketball

Video

File:Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Fruit Basket (Perfect) (English)