
Clear each with a passable score, and you can move to the next tier of the tree, and edge Tibby back home. Each of the tree's tiers of branches holds four microgames. You do this, at Tibby's suggestion, by climbing a massive tree. The story - and, as the game points out, with typical irreverence, it's not "one of these big serious stories" ("you won't be quizzed on it") - is that you must help Tibby, a bear with rosy cheeks and pink afro, back to heaven, from where he's fallen.

This series, in which you play, not as Kurt Cobain or Paul McCartney but as a microscopic amoeba, swimming with friends in elegant unison, or as an English interpreter for a Martian octopus, marches on, fortissimo. Rock Band, Guitar Hero and all the other rock-posturing others clutter under-stair cupboards and garages. It's an approach that has served Nintendo's designers well.

Rhythm Paradise is a series that seeks to capture these joyous rhythmic oddities in microgames. There's the ticking of the clock, holding down an unwavering 60bpm till the end of time, or, at least, of batteries. There are the seasons - four beats of the bar that comprise each year. There's the plip-plipping of raindrops on a tin roof, the wobble and throb of a lorry engine idling in traffic, and the wash of timpani whenever a wave hurls itself onto pebbles, fatally.

The game spawned 3 sequels: Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Heaven Fever and now this new release.Listen carefully and you'll soon notice how existence is filled with rhythmic flourishes. The original game featured several mini-games based around rhythm, and each had their own rules and challenges that are required to be met before unlocking more. Rhythm Heaven) for the Gameboy Advance in 2006, this new compilation will feature 100 rhythm games, 70 of which have been “carefully selected from previous titles in the series.”.

Starting with the original game that never made it outside Japan, Rhythm Tengoku (aka. Soon North America will be getting the localization of Rhythm Heaven Megamix ( Rhythm Paradise Megamix in Europe) as Nintendo Direct reveals it will be bringing the game to both regions later this year.
