Rhythm Heaven Fever - Set Extra Perfect

Here's a little something I decided to do, as I hadn't covered it in my otherwise immaculate coverage of Rhythm Heaven Fever. It's also a demonstration that I never truly finish YouTube coverage of a game. And that RHF deserved a video in HD. And a good thumbnail under the new system.

In any case, I really hope Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ comes out in North America. I'd get that game, no doubt about it. It's too bad the Rhythm Heaven series looks like shovelware to most people, which I'm sure is why it hasn't sold very well at all. Considering Tsunku♂ came down with throat cancer and can no longer use his voice, this is a franchise that has had no luck in North America. Rhythm Heaven does sell quite well in its native country though, The Best+ being the first game to knock Splatoon off the top spot in Japanese weekly sales.

Even if The Best+ is a compilation game, I've only played one Rhythm Heaven game, so most of it will be new to me (even if I've seen much of the previous games.

In short, I would really like Nintendo of America to bring The Best+ over, even if it's download-only. I'm guessing Rhythm heaven games get long turnaround times thoug, due to being a low-priority series and it needing songs dubbed over (which is much more labor-intensive than just dialogue).

Well, here's a run-down of each of the Extra stages as done perfectly. You not only have no reward for doing them all perfectly, the pink "P" never even shows up for these games, so it was a self-imposed challenge for me.

Extra Stage 1
The Clappy Trio
I hadn't played Rhythm Heaven Fever in such a long time. Rusty is an understatement. This used to be a stage I could do perfectly in one try. In fact, I did just that at the Rhythm Heaven arcade machine that used to be at Super Arcade near Mt. San Antonio College in Diamond Bar, CA. (The arcade has since gone out of business, as is the tendency for arcades.) I had to do this a few tries to get it done perfectly, having screwed up some times missing cues and incorrectly predicting the sequence. But hey, I did it eventually.

Extra Stage 2
Sneaky Spirits
This is the one that took the longest, oddly. I have no idea why. It may be due to the increased surrounding environmental noises as I was playing compared to when I first went through this game. At that point, there wasan't someone in the house who'd walk up and down the stairs fixated on her iPad as sitcoms and dramas streamed on it at maximum volume who doesn't care one nanogram about what you're doing.

Extra Stage 3
Power Calligraphy
On the other hand, this remained easy for me. Maybe I was already dialed in and got the hang of the game again after the Sneaky Spirits ordeal. I also never noticed until now that when this guy flexes his arm, he grips the brush so hard that it bends.

Extra Stage 4
Tap Trial
I heard The Best+ has a variant of this stage where Ashley, from WarioWare, is the player character, and she has to follow Red. I want to play that version so bad. Ashley has been quite the breakout character, hasn't she? I'm sure the WarioWare people like putting her in situations she doesn't want to be any part of. There is no giraffe in the Ashley version of this, unfortunately.