Bouncy Road

とんでくる丸い玉。 あれはイイやつです。 落とさないでネ！" "(The hopping round balls. Those are good things. Don't drop them!)

— Bouncy Road Description (Rhythm Tengoku)

とんでくる丸い玉。 あれはイイやつです。 落とさないいようにして運んでネ！" "(The hopping round balls. Those are good things. Carry them and don't drop them!)

— Bouncy Road Description (Rhythm Tengoku Arcade)

See that ball bouncing down the road? You wouldn't want to let it fall...would you?

— Bouncy Road Description (Rhythm Heaven Megamix)

Bouncy Road (ホッピングロード^?, Hopping Road) is the 19th game in Rhythm Tengoku and the 91st in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. In this game, two Sphere Dudes need your help to bounce off the balls that bounce down the road. Don't let them roll off. A sequel appears later on in Rhythm Tengoku called Bouncy Road 2.

Gameplay

File:Hop hopping.PNG

File:Hopping road.png

The game features a long, curving stretch of circular platforms. From the furthest platform, a ball spawns and begins to bounce along each of the platforms getting closer and closer to the screen. At the center and closest part of the screen is a yellow pole alongside a red pole. As the ball approaches, it will bounce along the other platforms in rhythm, until finally approaching the yellow and red ones, where the player must simultaneously use the A button and D-Pad respectfully to carry the ball across the end of the curve.

Controls

Button Mode

• D-Pad: Bounce Red Pole
• A: Bounce Yellow Pole

Simple Tap Mode

• Tap: Bounce Either Pole

Timing Notes

• Hit: The ball bounces off the platform and continues its journey.
• Barely: In Rhythm Tengoku, The ball continues its path but this counts as a miss, In Rhythm Heaven Megamix the ball will bounce off the platform, but make a faltering noise and fall. A barely counts as a miss.
• Miss: The balls hits the platform and just rolls off.

Rating Notes

Rhythm Tengoku

Header

• "かぜのウワサ" (The Wind's Gossip)

Try Again

• "きほんが できてないよね。" (The basics are not down.)
• "連続ジャンプで ミスが目立ちすぎよね。" (The mistakes stand out on the consecutive hops.)

OK

• "う~ん．．．" (Yeah...)
• "まぁまぁ、 かな。" (OK, I guess?)
• "とりあえず．．．" (Anyway...)
• "よしと します。" (You did your best.)

Superb

• "連続ジャンプが ファンタスティックだわ！" (The successive hops are fantastic!)
• "いい判断だったよね！" (You had good judgement!)

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

Header

• "Spheroid Impressions"

Try Again

• "You, uh, dropped many of us."
• "You panicked when we came down in a group."

OK

• "Eh. Passable."

Superb

• "Thanks for helping us along!"
• "Even when there were lots of us, you kept your cool."

Epilouge

Rhythm Tengoku

• Hopping Road Try Again.PNG

  "なかなか ムズカシー！" (Pretty difficult-!)

• Hopping Road OK.PNG

  "けっこうな コンビネーションだったネ！" (That was not a bad combination!)

• Hopping Road Superb.PNG

  "かんたん かんたん♪" (Simple simple♪)

Rhythm Heaven Megamix

• Hopping Road 3DS Try Again.PNG

  "Ow."

• Hopping Road 3DS OK.PNG

  "Nice combo!"

• Hopping Road 3DS Superb.PNG

  "Where's the challenge?"

Rhythm Item

Apparatus

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Skill Star

When you're near the end of the game and have one medium and fast ball, bounce the medium ball with a red pole perfectly to collect the star.

Challenge Train

• Round-Object Fan Club

Appearances

• Hop hopping.PNG

  Bouncy Road
  Remix 6

• Bouncy Road Arcade Remix 5.png

  Remix 5

• Hooping 2.PNG

  Bouncy Road 2

• Hopping road.png

  Bouncy Road

Trivia

• Strangely, the epilogues for this game in Rhythm Heaven Megamix have the Sphere Dudes smiling no matter what, while in Rhythm Tengoku, they have different expressions.
• This game's Practice is one of the few in Rhythm Tengoku that doesn't explain the controls to the player via text. It received a tutorial in the arcade version, in addition to the original Practice. In Rhythm Heaven Megamix, the Practice was reworked to include an explanation instead.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ホッピングロード	Hopping Road
EnglishNOA	Bouncy Road	Bouncy Road
EnglishNOE	Bouncy Road	Bouncy Road
French	Tempo mécano	Mechanical tempo
Spanish	Bolas saltarinas	Jumping balls
Italian	Strada salterina	Jumping road
Korean	통통 로드	Tonk-Tonk Road