In this game, the player controls a doctor protecting a yellow micro-organism by stabbing viruses with forks. They use ✚ to shoot the viruses from one of four directions, depending on their placement on the map. If even a single virus gets to the end, the organism will pop.
Perfect!/Ace!: The virus is stabbed by a fork. The doctor gives a V sign and blushes.
Early!/Late!: The virus is stabbed, but only at it's edge.
Miss...: The virus gets through, and kills the yellow organism, causing the doctor to turn blue in shock. Normally it respawns, but it doesn't do so in the Trials and the Endless Game where the amount of organisms represent how many lives the player has before the game is over. The player has multiple chances to vanquish the virus, though leaving it to pass through the first three tubes isn't counted as a miss.
Results
助手から ひとこと
(A Word from the Assistant)
当たりそこねが 多かったですね。 けっこう にがしちゃいましたねぇ…
(You missed a lot of them.) (We lost quite a few...)
う～ん．．． まぁまぁ、 かな。 とりあえず．．． よしと します。
(Hmm...) (Well, I wonder.) (For now...) (All right.)
とても あざやかな退治でした！
(That was a brilliant extermination!)
Epilogue
研究は失敗だ。
失敗は成功のもとカモ！
ものすごいクスリができた！！
(The research was a failure.)
(Failure might be the origin of success!)
(A fantastic medicine was produced!!)
研究は失敗だ。
失敗は成功のもとカモ！
ものすごいクスリができた！！
(The research was a failure.)
(Failure might be the origin of success!)
(A fantastic medicine was produced!!)
Endless Game
Saffron Trial
We've got an outbreak of an unknown virus! The only treatment it responds to is tiny forks in rhythm!
The game is an endless version of the original, ending once a single virus gets through to the end without being stabbed. The game gets faster as it progresses, and new variations of viruses are introduced. Pink viruses take two hits, and black virus take three hits. Each time a virus is hit, the yellow organism releases a variety of objects, with a larger quantity and variety of objects as the game goes on. In Rhythm Tengoku, each successful stab awards the player with 200 points while each mistimed stab awards 100 points, with the maximum possible score being 999900[1]. In Rhythm Heaven Megamix, each stab awards 1 point, up to a maximum of 999 points.
Trials
The player has the option to select which difficulty they want in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.
Saffron Trial: Only blue viruses are in this version. There are 3 organisms.
Saltwater Trial: The blue viruses may skip a section. Pink viruses are added. There are 2 organisms.
Paprika Trial: The blue viruses may skip 1-3 sections. Pink viruses may skip 1-2 sections. Black viruses are added. There are 2 organisms.
Tsunku♂: The game that I enjoyed the most on the GBA version is this one...the feeling I get when I beat three viruses almost simultaneously, or rather, in succession... it gives me goosebumps. This is a basic rhythm game, but the adrenaline rush I get when I beat the three viruses in rapid succession is the best for me. But I have no idea why they let the viruses run through the capsule (laughs).
Yone: The story is that a certain researcher discovered bacteria that get into the flow when they listen to music. The researcher is in the groove, partly due to the effects of the bacteria, but bad bacteria appear and try to interfere with the research, so the purpose of this game is for the researcher to look through the microscope and try to get rid of them.
This game is uniquely set up like a tower defense game.
While stabbing a virus, followed by an off-beat virus, a star appears next to the doctor as he blushes.
Although only blue viruses appear in the normal version of the game, a black virus appears in Remix 7.
The music used in the Endless Game in Rhythm Tengoku is a slightly remixed version of the normal music. In Rhythm Heaven Megamix, the music is an arrangement in the same style as the original, except for the addition of an ending note in the Gatekeeper Trio's Trials.
This is the only Endless Game in Rhythm Heaven Megamix whose Trial goal isn't to reach a certain score, but rather to reach the end. The trials last two loops of the game's music, just as long as the Rhythm Game from Rhythm Tengoku. However, the arrangement of the viruses doesn't match it in any of the trials.
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