

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. Ashley makes the generic miss sound when failing on a jump, unlike the Girl who has unique voice clips.As you read this feature, Rhythm Heaven Fever for Wii is grooving its way onto consoles around North America.This game appears in the " Wario.Where?" Challenge Train course, where the girl is replaced by Ashley and her apprentice Red can be seen riding the Giraffe.When playing this game in Rhythm Heaven Fever with the Widescreen Settings set to Standard (4:3), the Giraffe is moved inward so it would still be visible.In Rhythm Heaven Megamix, they are slightly larger. In Rhythm Heaven Fever they are resized to better fit the monkeys of those games. The monkeys appear larger in Rhythm Tengoku, likely to avoid cutting down on details.

They stay in the post-jump pose in Rhythm Heaven Fever and Rhythm Heaven Megamix. At the very end of the game in Rhythm Tengoku, the girl and the monkeys do a jump tap, followed by a head-bob which resets their animation.This game has the most versions out of all the games in the Rhythm Heaven Series, having five different versions in its first appearance alone, and two more introduced in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, which brings the total of variations to 7.
