Rhythm Heaven Megamix
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Developer
Nintendo SPD
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Release date(s)
June 11, 2015
June 16, 2016
* October 21, 2016
October 22, 2016
December 1, 2016
Ratings
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer
108 (plus challenges and co-op)
Navigation
Rhythm Heaven Megamix (リズム天国ザ・ベスト+プラス Rhythm Tengoku: The Best Plus) also known as Rhythm Paradise Megamix in Europe, and Rhythm World: The Best+Plus (리듬 세상 더 베스트+플러스) in Korea, is the fourth game in the Rhythm Heaven Series. It was released on June 11th, 2015 in Japan; June 16th, 2016 in the west during the E3 announcement; October 21st, 2016 in Europe; October 22nd, 2016 in Australia; and on December 1st, 2016 in South Korea.
This game includes 70 minigames from the previous three Rhythm Heaven games, 20 new minigames, and 10 remixes.
Main Game
In the single player mode of the game, the player helps a character named Tibby get back to Heaven World 天の国 (Ten no Kuni, a pun on 天国 tengoku?) (mispelled as "Hevven World" by Tibby) by completing various rhythm games and restoring the flow. On his way, he meets various characters, such as Boondog, Dieter, Shep, Donna, Hairold, Eglantine, Trey, Bertram, Betty, & Phillip, who guide him through their various lands; as well as the Gatekeeper Trio, which consists of Saffron, Saltwater, and Paprika.
Challenge Land
Challenge Land is a new feature in Megamix. Here, the player may board the Challenge Train, where the player must beat a series of minigames, usually with modified rules and tempo. Additionally, if the Perfect Campaign is up, it can be challenged here. Challenge Land becomes playable once the player clears the Lush Tower.
Perfect Campaign
Perfect Campaign returns in Rhythm Heaven Megamix and up to 3 attempts are allowed before receiving perfect. However, unlike from previous games in the series, some minor changes were made. Needing to navigate to a rhythm based mini-game with perfect attempt mode is not necessary unlike from previous games. Instead, it is located right next to Challenges Entrance, but not at or near the main menu where the list of mini games are listed. If failed, besides losing an attempt, instead of manually needing to exit out the mini-game to try again or wait till the end of mini-game, the computer automatically does it and says "You Missed...", before loosing an attempt. Receiving perfect earns a flow ball to use it at Café.
List of Rhythm Games
The majority of games appear in Story Mode, where they are grouped into sets of four; one Rhythm Tengoku game, one Rhythm Heaven game, one Rhythm Heaven Fever game, and one new game.
(Games marked with "[Prequel]" are new versions of previous rhythm games, and are considerably easier than their predecessors. Games marked with "[Original]" are the original versions of the rhythm game from their respective Rhythm Heaven title. Games marked with "[Sequel]" are a sequel to the ORIGINAL game, not a prequel. Games not marked at all have no brand-new prequel, nor sequel.)
Honeybee Land
Machine Land
First Gate
Citrus Land
Donut Land
Second Gate
Barbershop Land
Songbird Land
Third Gate
Lush Tower
After the Lush Tower is cleared, the credits roll and Tibby attempts to return to Heaven World, only to crash back down. More minigames also become available.
Honeybee Tower
Machine Tower
Citrus Tower
Donut Tower
Barbershop Tower
Songbird Tower
After the six towers are cleared, the credits roll again and Tibby makes it back to Heaven World, but something is wrong when he arrives. Plus, more minigames get unlocked.
Star Land
Comet Land
Planet Land
Fourth Gate
Left-Hand Tower
Right-Hand Tower
Tibby's Mom
Café
In the cafe you can play with your Rhythm Toys, buy Rhythm Items, CD's and extra games with Flow Balls and visit the Museum.
Shop Games
Shop games act like extra games from Rhythm Heaven Fever, but instead of unlocking them with Medals, they must be bought from the shop owned by Saffron with Flow Balls found by playing Challenge Land's Perfect Campaign and Challenge Train. All shop games are returning minigames from the previous games in the series. Some of them can be played on the Challenge Train even before they are bought.
List of Shop Games
Shop No. 1
Shop No. 2
Shop No. 3
Shop No. 4
Shop No. 5
Shop No. 6
Endless Games
Endless Games return in Megamix, which includes one game from each installment, and a new one of its own. They are unlocked by completing all three challenges on that game's gate, after which the endless version will be available in the Museum.
Rhythm Toys
Rhythm Toys return, but in a slightly different format. Unlike with Rhythm Toys in past games, the Rhythm Toys that appear in this game are constantly checked on for various reasons throughout the playthrough of the game, and are not accessible until you clear the Lush Tower.
List of Rhythm Toys
Streetpass
Whenever you get tagged by another player, the Cafe icon will display Barista, hinting that another player has tagged you. For each player you tagged, displays the player's Mii, number of Flow, and Favorite Rhythm Game, just like the rest of the characters. You also battle each of the players you tagged through Figure Fighter VS.
Missing Games
While most games returned in Megamix, 24 didn't make the cut. The following are the games from past incarnations of Rhythm Heaven that did not return for Megamix. (Sequels whose prequel is in Megamix are written in bold. Remixes, Endless Games and Two-Player Games aren't listed.) Many of these sequels have new patterns or new cues, which also exist in Megamix, but are never used. It is debatable how many of these were actually intended to appear in the game or were simply leftover data from the porting process.
From Rhythm Tengoku
From Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade)
From Rhythm Heaven
From Rhythm Heaven Fever
Scrapped New Games
In the debug menu of the game and other sources, we can see even more games were intended to be included, but for one reason or another were scrapped.[2]
Reception
This game has received a review of 34/40 on Famitsu and is known to be favorable on MetaCritic with an average score of 83.
Sales
According to a report, this game sold over 500,000 copies in Japan by the end of 2015. [3]. As of February 2016, the total sales in Japan reached 650,000 copies.
Trivia
- There is a challenge train set called "Wario...Where?", where many characters from the minigames are replaced with WarioWare characters. This is due to both series being created by the same developers.
- This is the first game to not include any of Tsunku's songs in the new Rhythm Games.
- This is the first game to not introduce a whole new Build to Scale game.
- This game currently holds the record for the most Rhythm games in it, due to the games being from every game in the series.
- When this game was talked about at the E3 2016, #RhythmHeaven quickly became a trending topic on Twitter.
- During the real credits, the following things and characters from various games can be seen.
- Ashley makes a cameo in the café as a doll.
- The minigames at lands, gates and towers are lined up by their game appearance, from oldest to newest (for example, in the Lush Tower: First is Spaceball from Rhythm Tengoku, then Dog Ninja from Rhythm Heaven, then Hole in One from Rhythm Heaven Fever and finally the new one - Sumo Brothers)
- While using simple tap, it shows a character when tapping. This is a reference to Rhythm Heaven.
- This the first game in the series to have threequels included.
- It is notable that almost all of the title cards in most of the international versions of the game all use a small handful of font styles, and are rather simplistic compared to the more artistic and unique title cards in the Japanese version and Rhythm Heaven Fever.
- This is noble in Rhythm Rally 1, 2, & Cosmic; Marching Orders; Catchy Tune 1 & 2; Super Samurai Slice 2; Built to Scale; Packing Pests; Micro-Row 1 & 2; Working Dough 1 & 2; Screwbot Factory; Monkey Watch; and various other minigames from Rhythm Heaven Fever.
- The only title card to be fully changed from the Japanese version is Karate Man Combos!.
- This game has a few leftover/placeholder songs from Rhythm Heaven Fever.
- The announcer in this game is voiced by Marianna DeFazio, who also voiced the announcer in Rhythm Heaven Fever.
- After getting all of the Badges, a button with an alien-like creature on it appears. Tapping it will show you a picture of some of the staff.[4]
- On Perfect Campaign, "Hit" Cue doesn't do anything for matching rhythm sake, such as blinking for every rhythm, unlike from previous games.
- This is the first game in the series not to have any new mini-game introduction theme song. All of them are from previous games.
- Each tower and Land has at least one new rhythm mini-game
Trailers
Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Official Game Trailer - Nintendo E3 2016
Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Demonstration - Nintendo E3 2016
Rhythm Heaven Megamix - Reveal Trailer