Ringside
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Live from ringside! We hear the champ's innermost thoughts and feelings after the match! |
Ringside (レスラー会見?, Resura Kaiken) is the sixteenth minigame in Rhythm Heaven Fever. The player controls a wrestler in a post-game interview. Getting a perfect will earn "Wrestler's Weekly".
Gameplay
The game has you, playing as a wrestler, getting interviewed after a match. The reporter, a young girl, will give you several cues you need to respond to:
- Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?: The player has to respond after the phrase is done.
- Woah, you go, big guy!: The player need to show off after the phrase is finished.
- Pose for the fans!: This phrase is accompanied by the screen zooming out. After it is finished, the player needs to strike a pose.
The commands will come in many different patterns, with varying distances between them.
Controls
- A: Respond
- A (Twice): Show Off
- A + B: Pose
Hit or Miss
- Hit: With the "Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?" or "Woah, you go, big guy!" command, a camera flash will happen afterwards. With the "Pose for the fans!", multiple camera flashes will appear, as well as a radial background. On occasion, a newspaper will appear with the picture on it.
- Barely: Messing up on a "Wubbadubbadubba, is that true?" will cause the wrestler to cough when answering. Messing up on a "Woah, you go, big guy!" will cause only one part of the showing off to be done. Messing up on the "Pose for the fans!" will make only one person take a photo, which will be grayed and scratchy.
- Miss: Missing any command will cause the reporter to frown and give you a look. Using a command when not told to will either make the reporter nervous (respond command) or make her flinch back in shock (pose command).
Appearances
Two-Player Mode
A version of the game can be unlocked in the two-player mode. It requires you to beat the original game and the previous two-player game, Tambourine.
The game has the first player player playing a wrestler with blue clothing, and the second playing a wrestler with orange clothing, each marker with the number of their player. The reporter will give the commands, and the player will respond. The reporter will always ask the same thing to them, so the players just need to do the same thing.
Trivia
- A strange fascination with Ringside has spread parodies of it all over the Internet, particularly YouTube, showcasing a character and an odd phrase or personality trait of said character. This phenomenon is documented at its page on Know Your Meme.
- The newspaper the can pop up after a successful "Pose for the fans!" command says "Nintendo Times" on it, referencing the Rhythm Heaven series' developer and publisher company, Nintendo.
- The "Wubbadubbadubba" commands that are stated as "questions" appear to suggest that the wrestler is not actually listening to the reporter, and is just responding with the same thing each time. This is supported by the game's reading material, which has the wrestler saying "Eh" to all the questions, despite them being actual questions.
- In the Japanese game, while reading the practice. The reporter will say 「〜〜〜ですか？」 ("〜〜〜desuka?") the 〜 probably meaning the words that he isn't listening to
- In the Japanese game, the blue squares with the star say "YONE" while in the English game they simply have a star.
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