okay... i think of myself as a decent rhythm tengoku player but for goddamn sake,i can't finish the final mix,it's impossible,it goes so goddamn fast and there are so many transition that you are bound to make 3-4 mistake,and then those 3-4 mistake nets you the scribbles,it wouldn't be so stupidly frustating if the stage wasn't 4 minute long and if the hardest part wasn't right in the end!
anyway i guess i should spoil the rest
5-1
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a fisherman has to hook various fish,red fish requires one timing,yellow fish requires another timing and blue fish requires another timing,the red fish are easy to hook but the blue one requires an incredibly annoying timing... did i mention this game is in the final mix?
5-2
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remember the drill sergeant from the original? he's back and he has trained a bunch of baby seals :3 it pretty much work to the old marching minigame but sometimes you have to press A+B to roll on your back
5-3
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a pitcher throw a baseball ball and you have to strike it,there are no visual clues for when the ball hits so you have to rely on rhythm,at least it's not as bad as the fishing one!
5-4
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a bunch of wingless birds march in line and you have to tap A in rhythm to keep the line,sometimes they mix it up with a jump,simple but fun
5-5
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prehistoric remix,no song
6-1
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you have a launchpad with several different kind of shuttles,the first one has a normal 1-3 count but then you have green shuttles with an instant 1-7 count and another one with a single count that goes slooooooow,could be worse
6-2
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this one is weird to describe... there are a bunch of fork shaped that keeps a balloon afloat by clashing with each other in rhythm,they either go A-A---A-A---A-A or A-A-A-A-A-A-A when they go with the second rhythm it really hurts your finger
6-3
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two little mans bounce balls that come from the sides,on the right side you get 2 balls but the left side only has 1 ball,the man constantly switches so you have something like A-A---A-A---A-----A-----A-A-A---A-A,it's not hard but it feels like it last forever
6-4
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argh! i hate this one! a girl on top of the car says something and then the two rapper with her repeat what she says,the problem is that i have no idea what kind of beat i have to follow as the thing is almost silent barring what the girl says which makes following her incredibly annoying,did i mention this is in the final mix?
6-5
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a theme park themed mix
7-1
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and this one is actualy worse than 6-4,a bunch of dancers tap their feet on the ground and it's pretty much like the marching minigame,but sometimes a female voice tell them to stop and change rhythm but the problem is that it's really hard to follow their next rhythm when they change,the funny thing is that i intentionaly screwed up the last bit since i thought i already made too many mistakes and the game still made me pass... did i mention this game is in the final mix? actualy i think this game is the reason why i can't pass the final mix since if there is a bit that i always screw up it's the one where the mix jump to this game
7-2
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oh this one is awesome,a bunch of shrimp march alltogether to a quite upbeat music where a little kid counts number,sometimes the kid switch to letter so the shrimp have to jump back instead
7-3
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a bunch of glasses wielding girls hold a bunch of books which they flip in rhythm with their song,depending on the strophe they will flip their book with a different rhythm,when they say "don't mind" you have to press A+B to open the book which usualy shows some character from the older rhythm tengoku
7-4
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it's karate house,when they throw you a lightbulb the next one is a string that you have to hit by pressing A+B,i guess the song is pretty boss!
7-5
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i'm not really sure what they were going for here in this remix...
7-4 marks the last game which means that you have in total 28 minigames,the remaining 3 mix contain repeat of older minigames like the 2 previous rhythm tengoku
remix 8 has
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4-4 another samurai stage
3-1 the 2 blobs stage only now the stage has a japan setting
3-2 and it's pretty much the same
1-4 but with a farm theme instead of the school one
remix 9 has
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6-4 but now the rappers have silly hairdo
7-3 and it's pretty much the same
1-1 but now there is a female golfer instead of a male one and the baboon has a silly hairdo
1-2 but you have to do it in the dark
remix 10
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3-4 but now flashes from camera block your visual
4-3 but now the creatures sometimes make a double dash
4-2 it's pretty much the same
7-4 yes it's a repeat of karate house AGAIN
if bebpo is having problem now with the monkey clock minigame i see a dark future ahead of him...
though after playing the remaining game i do think he's right... the first two were cool but this one most of the time just kinda comes off as kinda frustating to play
anyway some other stuff i unlocked
Toy 3
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either 4,8 or 16 spring shaped creature bounce on a cymbal,pressing A+B close the cymbal and let the first 3,7,15 creature bounce on it,if you don't press it the last creature bounce on it,playing for a while with 4 creatures net you the blue bird song,playing on 8 the music of the onion minigame from the original
Toy 4
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actualy this is a 2P minigame so i'm not sure why they put it in the toy section,two players control two robot boxer,the first player attack by inputting a sequence and then the second player tries to dodge by repeating the same sequence
Infinite 3
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this game has 8-bit visuals which are kind of a waste if you ask me,a cherub is armed with a bow and zooms at high speed at the bottom of the screen,he needs to hit a bomb on the top with an arrow,it starts slow enough but it gets quick enough to cause an headache... blergh!
i also dabbled a bit with the 2 player mode... only 8 minigame are playable and they are identic to their single player counterpart,the only difference is that the 2 player play at the same time... why they couldn't add multiplayer to every game instead of 8? it really seems like a throwaway addition
anyway for the curious the multiplayer minigame are 2-1,2-2,4-1,4-3,5-2,6-1,7-1,7-4
getting gold on the multiplayer games unlock multiplayer toys... these are
Multiplayer 1
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a maniquin is going to get hit on the head but he can block the strike with his hands,one player control his left hand and the other his right hand so both player need to press at the same time to block
Multiplayer 2
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the two players have to make some
Mochi by hitting the rice cake,if a single player hits the cake twice in a single row,he breaks it... other than that there isn't any rhythm involved just a lot of button mashing,what the heck?
Multiplayer 3
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two martial artist bounce a ball around,the first player control the martial artist on the left and the second the martial artist on the right,when the ball bounce on center both player have to press A+B to set the ball ablaze
Multiplayer 4
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both players are inside a pirate ship and have to press A at the same time to row the boat,sometimes the boat need to steer so one of the player has to sit out and let the other player steer
Multiplayer 5
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this one is easy,it's 6-3 only both man are controlled by players instead of a single one... for some weird reason while playing you can see some japanese scribble on the background i wonder what they mean