Lockstep

Lockstep This one's all about hitting the beat, flipping it, and then nailing the backbeat. Experience both sides of the rhythm! 　Rhythm Heaven	Lockstep This one's all about hitting the beat, flipping it, and then nailing the backbeat. Experience both sides of the rhythm! 　Rhythm Paradise

Lockstep

This one's all about hitting the beat, flipping it, and then nailing the backbeat. Experience both sides of the rhythm!

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

Lockstep

Image

File:Lockstep.png

File:Lockstep title.PNG

Number

27
72

Gift

Lockstep (song)
Flow Ball

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Lockstep (ウラオモテ^?, Ura Omote) is the 27th Rhythm Game in Rhythm Heaven and the 72nd in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. In this game, the player must tap to keep the beat and then make transitions to the offbeats. The arrange variant, Lockstep 2, is unlocked later on in Rhythm Heaven.

Gameplay

File:Lockstep English.png

File:Lockstep 3DS.PNG

In this game, the player plays as a Stepswitcher in the center of the screen. The Stepswitchers will begin stepping in beat after the cowbell clicks. The player must step consistently in this same beat until one of the Stepswitchers signals to step in offbeat to the rhythm. The rhythm will keep switching on and offbeat during the game when signaled. To confuse the player, the screen will zoom out, showing many more Stepswitchers.

Controls

• Ⓐ/Tap: March

Timing Display

• Perfect!/Ace!^?:
• Early!/Late!^?:
• Miss...^?:

Results

	Your partners say...()	Your partners say...()
	On the beat? You're a little off. Offbeat? More like just plain "off." Sloppy work on the transitions.	On the beat? You're a little off. Offbeat? More like just plain "off." Sloppy work on the transitions.
	Hm... Good enough... I don't know... I guess that was all right.	Hmm... Good enough... I don't know... I guess that was all right.
	You were all right on the beat. You hit the offbeats pretty well. Nice transitions between beats.	You were all right on the beat. You hit the offbeats pretty well. Nice transitions between beats.

	Your Partners Say
	On the beat? You're a little off. Offbeat? More like just plain "off." Sloppy work on the transitions.
	Eh. Passable.
	You were all right on the beat. You hit the offbeats pretty well. Nice transitions between beats.

	You need to get in step!	Not bad, I say. Not bad.	Ah, yes! Most Excellent!

	You need to get in step!	Not bad, I say. Not bad.	Ah, yes! Most Excellent!

Rhythm Item

Famous Painting	Paranormal Phenomena
File:Sprite 3DS Rhythm Item Famous Painting.png.png	It's creepy the way the painting's eyes seem to follow you wherever you go, but it's even creepier when you mess up your rhythm and the painting laughs at you. Also, it's a bit embarrassing.

Skill Star

The Skill Star appears when switching back to the beat near the end of the game.

Challenge Land

Lockstep appears in the following Challenge Train courses:

• Group Activity 2
• Lockstep Lockdown
• Game Gamble: Advanced

Appearances

• Lockstep practice DS.png

  Lockstep (Practice)

• Lockstep English.png

  Lockstep
  Remix 10

• Lockstep Remix 6.png

  Remix 6

• Lockstep Remix 8.png

  Lockstep 2
  Remix 8

• Lockstep 3DS Practice.png

  Lockstep (Practice)

• Lockstep 3DS.PNG

  Lockstep
  Right-Hand Remix

Trivia

• The colors were softened in the international release of Rhythm Heaven, presumably to reduce seizures. The original colors are used in all versions of Rhythm Heaven Megamix.
  • The closest to farthest zoom out's sprite is unfinished in the Japanese version, where a column of tiles is missing on the left side while the Stepswitchers are marching on the offbeat. This is fixed in the International release.

Japanese	International	Megamix
File:Lockstep Japanese.png	File:Lockstep English.png	File:Lockstep 3DS.PNG

• The person the Stepswitchers form when fully zoomed out appears to be Johann Sebastian Bach, a famous German composer of the 1700's. He had a very distinct hairstyle, although he lacks the curly mustache seen in the game.
• In Rhythm Heaven, the game stops tracking the player's performance during the last ten steps, meaning it does not impact the player's score or Perfect Campaign.
  • This is no longer true in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, however.
• The Stepswitchers make a cameo in Cheer Readers.
• This is one of a few games to keep the same controls for tapping from Rhythm Heaven to Rhythm Heaven Megamix when playing in Simple Tap Mode. The others being Fillbots, Shoot-'em-up, Freeze Frame and Munchy Monk.

• There is a visual error in both versions of the game.
  • At the start of the game and on the sprites/artwork for the stepswitchers, their left arm is white and their right arm is gray. In the game, However, when the player steps, the arms change to be both white on the onbeat step, and both gray of the offbeat step.

Video

Rhythm Heaven	Rhythm Heaven Megamix
File:Rhythm Heaven - Lockstep (Perfect) (English)-0	File:Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Lockstep (Perfect) (English)

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ウラオモテ	Back-Front
EnglishNOA	Lockstep
EnglishNOE	Lockstep
French	Recto verso	Two-sided
Spanish	A contratiempo	Offbeat
Italian	Sincromarcia	Synchromarch
Korean	그림자스텝	Shadowstep