Rhythm Heaven Megamix

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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.

Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Image
Developer
Nintendo SPD
Publisher
Platform
Release date(s)
Flag of Japan.svg June 11, 2015
Flag of the United States.svg June 16, 2016*
Flag of Europe.svg October 21, 2016
Flag of Australia.svg October 22, 2016
Flag of South Korea.svg December 1, 2016
Ratings
ESRB:ESRB E.png - Everyone
PEGI:PEGI 7.png - 7 years and up
CERO:CERO A.png - All ages
USK:USK 0.png - All ages
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer
108 (plus challenges and co-op)
Navigation
Next
N/A

This game includes 70 minigames from the previous three Rhythm Heaven games, 20 new minigames, and 10 remixes.

Main Game

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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.

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

Karate Man [Prequel] Fillbots [Prequel] Air Rally [Prequel] Catchy Tune
File:Story karate man.png File:Story fillbots.png File:Story air rally.png File:Story Jumping Road.png

Machine Land

Rhythm Tweezers [Prequel] Glee Club [Prequel] Figure Fighter [Prequel] Fruit Basket
File:Story rhythm epilation.png File:Story glee club.png File:Story figure fighter.png File:Story slam dunked.png

First Gate

Coin Toss File:Coin toss 3ds.png

Citrus Land

The Clappy Trio [Prequel] Shoot-'em-up [Prequel] Micro-Row [Prequel] First Contact
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Donut Land

Bunny Hop Airboarder Exhibition Match Tongue Lashing
File:Rabbit jump 3ds.png File:Airboarder 3ds.png File:Exhibition match 3ds.png File:Chameleon Stick 3DS.PNG

Second Gate

Sick Beats
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Barbershop Land

Sneaky Spirits [Prequel] Rhythm Rally [Prequel] Flipper-Flop [Prequel] LumBEARjack
File:Story sneaky spirits.png File:Story Rhythm Rally title.PNG File:Story Flipper-Flop title.PNG File:Wild Woodwork title.PNG

Songbird Land

Power Calligraphy Blue Birds Flock Step Super Samurai Slice
File:Power Calligraphy 3DS title.PNG File:Blue Birds title 3DS.PNG File:Flock Step 3DS.PNG File:Samurai Slice 3DS.PNG

Third Gate

Charging Chicken
File:Chicken Race.PNG

Lush Tower

Spaceball Dog Ninja Hole in One Sumo Brothers Lush Remix
File:Air Batter Title.PNG File:Dog Ninja title 3DS.PNG File:Hole in One 3DS.PNG File:Sumology title.png File:Forest Remix Title.png

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

Karate Man Returns! [Original] Fillbots 2 [Original] Air Rally 2 [Original] Catchy Tune 2 [Sequel] Honeybee Remix
File:Return of karate man.png File:Return of fillbots.png File:Return of air rally.png File:Return of jumping road.png File:Bee Remix.png

Machine Tower

Rhythm Tweezers 2 [Original] Glee Club 2 [Original] Figure Fighter 2 [Original] Fruit Basket 2 [Sequel] Machine Remix
File:Return of rhythm epilation.png File:Return of Glee Club.png File:Return of figure fighter.png File:Return of Slam Dunked.PNG File:Machine Remix.png

Citrus Tower

The Clappy Trio 2 [Original] Shoot-'em-up 2 [Original] Micro-Row 2 [Original] Second Contact [Sequel] Citrus Remix
File:Return of the clappy trio.png File:Return of shoot-'em-up.png File:Return of micro-row.png File:Return of Interpreter.png File:Orange Remix.png

Donut Tower

Rat Race Fan Club Working Dough Animal Acrobat Donut Remix
File:Cheese Heist title 3DS.PNG File:Fanclub title 3DS.PNG File:Working Dough 3DS.PNG File:Midair Trapeze.png File:Donut Remix.png

Barbershop Tower

Sneaky Spirits 2 [Original] Rhythm Rally 2 [Original] Flipper-Flop 2 [Original] LumBEARjack 2 [Sequel] Barbershop Remix
File:Return of Sneaky Spirits.png File:Return of Rhythm Rally.png File:Return of Flipper-Flop.png File:Return of Wild Woodwork.PNG File:Fashion Remix.png

Songbird Tower

Tap Trial Frog Hop Ringside Tangotronic 3000 Songbird Remix
File:Tap Trial 3DS.PNG File:Frog Hop Title 3DS.PNG File:Ringside 3DS title.PNG File:Waltz-a-Tron title.png File:Bird Remix.png

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

Ninja Bodyguard Freeze Frame Launch Party Pajama Party
File:Ninja title 3DS.PNG File:Freeze Frame title 3DS.PNG File:Launch Party 3DS title.PNG File:Pajamas title.png

Comet Land

Marching Orders Munchy Monk See-Saw Blue Bear
File:Marcher title 3DS.PNG File:Munchy Monk title 3DS.PNG File:See-Saw 3DS title.PNG File:Teddy Bear title.png

Planet Land

Space Dance Lockstep Cheer Readers Kitties!
File:Space Dance title 3DS.PNG File:Lockstep title.PNG File:Cheer Readers 3DS title.PNG File:Neko Clap Title.png

Fourth Gate

Clap Trap
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Left-Hand Tower

The Snappy Trio [Sequel] Fan Club 2 [Sequel] Figure Fighter 3 [Sequel] Jungle Gymnast [Sequel] Left-Hand Remix
File:Trio on Tour 3DS title.PNG File:Fan Club 2 3DS.png File:Figure Champion title.PNG File:Midair Trapeze 2 title.PNG File:Left Remix.png

Right-Hand Tower

Tap Trial 2 [Sequel] Jumpin' Jazz [Sequel] Hole in One 2 [Sequel] Super Samurai Slice 2 [Sequel] Right-Hand Remix
File:Turbo Tap Trial 3DS title.PNG File:Frog Night title.PNG File:Hole in One Lady title.PNG File:Samurai Slice 2 3DS title.PNG File:Right Remix.png

Tibby's Mom

Cosmic Dance [Sequel] Cosmic Rhythm Rally [Sequel] Working Dough 2 [Sequel] Karate Man Senior Final Remix
File:Cosmo Dance 3DS title.PNG File:Cosmo Rally title.PNG File:Working Dough Origins title.PNG File:Karate Man's Father title.PNG File:Final Remix.png

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

Bouncy Road Night Walk Quiz Show
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Shop No. 2

The Dazzles Big Rock Finish Karate Man Kicks!
File:Dazzles 3DS.PNG File:Big Rock Finish title 3DS.PNG File:Karate Man Kick.PNG

Shop No. 3

Built to Scale Double Date Catch of the Day
File:Built to Scale Wii 3DS.PNG File:Double Date 3DS.PNG File:Catch of the Day 3DS.PNG

Shop No. 4

Fork Lifter Love Rap Bossa Nova
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Shop No. 5

Screwbot Factory Board Meeting Samurai Slice
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Shop No. 6

Packing Pests Monkey Watch Karate Man Combos!
File:Packing Pests 3DS.PNG File:Monkey Watch 3DS.PNG File:Karate Man Combo.PNG

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. On whatoplay.com, it holds an aggregate score (playscore) of 8.83 based on 29 critics and 1,740+ gamer ratings.[3]

Sales

According to a report, this game sold over 500,000 copies in Japan by the end of 2015. [4]. 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 also voiced by Marianna DeFazio, who also voiced the announcer in Rhythm Heaven Fever.

Trailers

Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Rhythm Games Earth World Honeybee Land
Karate ManGame 3DS ntrRobot S.pngGame 3DS rvlBadminton S.pngGame 3DS ctrStep S.png
Machine Land
Game 3DS agbHair S.pngGame 3DS ntrChorus S.pngGame 3DS rvlMuscle S.pngGame 3DS ctrFruitbasket S.png
The First Gate
Game 3DS ntrCoinToss L.png
Citrus Land
Game 3DS agbClap S.pngGame 3DS ntrShooting S.pngGame 3DS rvlFlea S.pngGame 3DS ctrInterprerter S.png
Donut Land
Game 3DS agbRabbit L.pngGame 3DS ntrAirboard L.pngGame 3DS rvlBatting L.pngGame 3DS ctrChameleon L.png
The Second Gate
Sick Beats
Barbershop Land
Game 3DS agbGhost S.pngGame 3DS ntrPingpong S.pngGame 3DS rvlGoma S.pngGame 3DS ctrWoodCat S.png
Songbird Land
Game 3DS agbShuji L.pngGame 3DS ntrBlueBirds L.pngGame 3DS rvlBird L.pngGame 3DS ctrDotsamurai L.png
The Third Gate
Game 3DS ctrChicken L.png
Lush Woods Lush Tower
Game 3DS agbBatter L.pngGame 3DS ntrNinja L.pngGame 3DS rvlGolf L.pngGame 3DS ctrSumou L.pngGame 3DS remix LED.png
Honeybee Tower
Game 3DS rvlKarate 1.pngGame 3DS ntrRobot L.pngGame 3DS rvlBadminton L.pngGame 3DS ctrStep L.pngGame 3DS remix 00.png
Machine Tower
Game 3DS agbHair L.pngGame 3DS ntrChorus L.pngGame 3DS rvlMuscle L.pngGame 3DS ctrFruitbasket L.pngGame 3DS remix 01.png
Citrus Tower
Game 3DS agbClap L.pngGame 3DS ntrShooting L.pngGame 3DS rvlFlea L.pngGame 3DS ctrInterprerter L.pngGame 3DS remix 02.png
Donut Tower
Game 3DS agbRat L.pngGame 3DS ntrIdol L.pngGame 3DS rvlManju L.pngGame 3DS ctrBlanco L.pngGame 3DS remix 03.png
Barbershop Tower
Game 3DS agbGhost L.pngGame 3DS ntrPingpong L.pngGame 3DS rvlGoma L.pngGame 3DS ctrWoodCat L.pngGame 3DS remix 04.png
Songbird Tower
Game 3DS agbTap L.pngGame 3DS ntrFrog L.pngGame 3DS rvlInterview L.pngGame 3DS ctrTango L.pngGame 3DS remix 05.png
Heaven World Star Land
Game 3DS agbTono L.pngGame 3DS ntrCameraMan L.pngGame 3DS rvlRocket L.pngGame 3DS ctrPillow L.png
Comet Land
Game 3DS agbMarcher L.pngGame 3DS ntrShugyo L.pngGame 3DS rvlSeesaw L.pngGame 3DS ctrBear L.png
Planet Land
Game 3DS agbSpaceDance L.pngGame 3DS ntrBackbeat L.pngGame 3DS rvlBook L.pngGame 3DS ctrTeppan L.png
The Fourth Gate
Game 3DS rvlSword L.png
Mamarin Palace Left-Hand Tower
Game 3DS agbClap A.pngGame 3DS ntrIdol A.pngGame 3DS rvlMuscle A.pngGame 3DS ctrBlanco A.pngGame 3DS remix 06 2.png
Right-Hand Tower
Game 3DS agbTap A.pngGame 3DS ntrFrog A.pngGame 3DS rvlGolf A.pngGame 3DS ctrDotsamurai A.pngGame 3DS remix 07 2.png
Tibby's Mom
Game 3DS agbSpaceDance A.pngGame 3DS ntrPingpong A.pngGame 3DS rvlManju A.pngGame 3DS rvlKarate 4.pngGame 3DS remix TED 2.png
Shop Shop No. 1
Game 3DS agbHopping L.pngGame 3DS agbNightWalk L.pngGame 3DS agbQuiz L.png
Shop No. 2
Game 3DS ntrBoxShow L.pngGame 3DS ntrShortLive L.pngGame 3DS rvlKarate 2.png
Shop No. 3
Built to ScaleGame 3DS rvlDate L.pngGame 3DS rvlFishing L.png
Shop No. 4
Game 3DS rvlFork L.pngGame 3DS rvlRap L.pngGame 3DS rvlReceive L.png
Shop No. 5
Game 3DS rvlRobot L.pngGame 3DS rvlRotation L.pngSamurai Slice
Shop No. 6
Game 3DS rvlSort L.pngGame 3DS rvlWatch L.pngGame 3DS rvlKarate 3.png
Characters
Sprite 3DS Mascot Boondog.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Dieter.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Shep.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Donna.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Hairold.gif
Sprite 3DS Mascot Eglantine.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Trey.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Saffron.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Saltwater.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Paprika.gif
Sprite 3DS Mascot Bertram.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Betty.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Tibby.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Philip.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Colin.gif
Sprite 3DS Mascot Tibby's Mom.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Barista.gifSprite 3DS Mascot The Goat.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Rupert.gifSprite 3DS Mascot Samurai Drummer.gif
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