In other words, you weren't just pressing buttons in a timely manner but actually playing alongside the song. Rather than just following patterns and pressing buttons in order to hit preset patterns, players would actually have to closely follow the beat of the song and make the appropriate button presses to the beat. Rhythm Heaven, however, took a very different approach.
Games like PaRappa the Rapper from Sony and Dance Dance Revolution from Konami pioneered this method of rhythm gameplay. Rhythm Heaven plays very differently from other rhythm-based games, which would consist of having players press a series of buttons, prompts for which scroll along to the speed of the song. The person credited for the creation of this series is Kazuyoshi Osawa, who also worked on the WarioWare and Metroid games. The series is known as Rhythm Tengoku (or Rhythm Paradise) in Japan and was produced by Nintendo's internal studio Nintendo SP&D1, who also did work on the WarioWare and Metroid games. The Rhythm Heaven series has recently become familiar to North American shores, but Japanese players have been experiencing the musical legacy for years now. Not a big deal since the wacky stories are entertaining on their own.As you read this feature, Rhythm Heaven Fever for Wii is grooving its way onto consoles around North America. There isn’t much else to multiplayer and after a trying two player mode once you’ll probably go back to watching other people play Rhythm Heaven Fever while waiting your turn. The game rates both players at the end and your combined score determines if you unlock another two player game or not. Each player controls one wrestler and taps A through the same song. Ringside, for example, has two wrestlers instead of one. Rhythm Heaven Fever has a few two player mini-games, which are actually just multiplayer versions of the single player games. At this point, I wondered why doesn’t Rhythm Heaven Fever have a "restart" option in the main menu. For me, remix stages were bottlenecks and I had to repeat one of them over a dozen times just to see the next set of games. Remix stages take elements from the four games you (hopefully!) mastered and mashes them together jumping from catching peas with a fork to hi-fiving monkeys. After playing four games, you have to complete a "boss" level to move on.
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