Sometimes the game challenges the player to complete a mini-game flawlessly. A Superb rating awards the player with a medal collecting these allows bonus features such as endless mini-games to be unlocked. If a player gets a Try Again rating, they can't progress to the next mini-game until they can get one of the higher ratings.

Upon completion of each mini-game, the player's performance is evaluated and given a ranking: Try Again, OK, or Superb. The game is divided into sets of four or five music-based mini-games, which are completed by pressing buttons (or flicking and tapping the touch screen) in time with the rhythm. Despite this, the DS sequel (known as Rhythm Tengoku Gold in Japanese) would receive an overseas release to a positive reception, with two more sequels following. Naturally this meant that it would be released only in Japan, not unlike the case with Mother 3. The first game in the series was released on the GBA in late 2006, making it the last game that Nintendo developed for the system, and later in arcades as a joint project between Nintendo and SEGA. Rhythm Heaven, known in Japanese as Rhythm Tengoku and as Rhythm Paradise in European languages, can best be described as WarioWare meets Elite Beat Agents.

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