Tap Troupe

With taps on their shoes and boxes on their heads, this quartet dreams of stardom. We understand the taps, but the head boxes...?

— Tap Troupe Description (US version)

This tapping quartet dream of stardom and practise every day the road to fame is long but pulling off a routine feels so good!

— Tap Troupe Description (European version)

Tap Troupe (タップスター Tap Star) is the thirty-first game in Rhythm Heaven Fever. It's about a Tall Tapper, (you) auditioning for the Tap Troupe, a tap dancing group. Getting a perfect on this game earns the gift "At the Auditions" to read.

Gameplay

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Gameplay of Tap Troupe

In this game, the player controls the fourth Tall Tapper in line (far right), with their face being visible near the bottom-left of the screen. When the game starts, the members of the troupe will start stepping at a steady beat. The player needs to step along with them. At certain parts of the game, a voice will say "Rea-dy!", and the tappers get on their toes and continue tapping. When this happens, the speed of tapping increases to a triplet. After a while, a voice will say "Tap, tap, tap!", requiring the player to tap on those beats, then go back the the original beat.

Controls

• A: Step

Timing Notes

• Hit: The Tall Tappers continue their routine. After the female voice's complex tap cues, the Tall Tappers will gleefully yell out "Okay!". Additionally, halfway through the game the Tall Tapper on the left of the group will bring out a confetti popper which launches confetti. During the last few moments of the rhythm game, the Tall Tappers will wave their arms up with their hands in an OK sign.
• Barely: A small 'tick' can be heard when tapping off beat. The other Tall Tappers will glare at the player's Tall Tapper, annoyed. During practice, they just glance over at the player. A barely counts as a hit, but will ruin a perfect chance.
• Miss: The other Tall Tappers blow a raspberry and make a pouty face at the player's Tall Tapper. During practice, they just glance over at the player.

Rating Notes

American Version

• Try Again: "We're better than this! Aren't we?"
• OK: "We did it! Didn't we?"
• Superb: "We're real stars now! ...Right?"

European Version

• Try Again: "I thought we'd be better than this."
• OK: "I think we did it, didn't we?"
• Superb: "We're real stars now, right?"

Rating Screens

• Tap Troupe Try Again.png

  "We're better than this! Aren't we?"

• Tap Troupe OK.png

  "We did it! Didn't we?"

• Tap Troupe Superb.png

  "We're real stars now! ...Right?"

Appearances

• Tap Troupe
• Remix 7
• Remix 10

Two-Player Mode

A version of the game can be

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unlocked in the two player mode. It is the seventh game in it, and requires the completion on the original game and the previous two-player game, Launch Party.

The game has the first player on the far right, wearing blue shoes, and the second player on the left, wearing orange shoes. Both players have to tap along with the other two tappers. There is no main differences from the main game's pattern, other that spotlights at certain times to obscure view.

Trivia

• The Tall Tappers' box-headed, human-like appearance makes them look similar to the dancers from Rhythm Tengoku 's Space Dance and the Paddlers from Rhythm Heaven 's Rhythm Rally.
  • In the reading material you receive by perfecting this game, the troupe's leader is implied to be the leader of the Space Dancers, further making the connection between them.
• The game's base play style, with four characters stepping to a beat, makes it similar to Rhythm Tengoku's Marching Orders.
• There is an unused variation of Tap Troupe found in the files, but more of a DS graphical format meaning Tap Troupe was originally supposed to appear in Rhythm Heaven.

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	タップスター Tap Star
Spanish	Gigantes del claqué
Italian	Tip Tap Star