History YMMV / RhythmHeaven

** Quiz Show in ''Tengoku'', [[ThatOneLevel at least to some people]]. Despite being one of the few mini-games to have insta-fail conditions, you don't actually need any rhythm to pass. Just do as many button inputs as the host. It becomes slightly tougher in ''Megamix'', where you have to follow the host's pattern to get its skill star and higher scores, but it's also easier to perfect thanks to a {{good bad bug|s}}.
** Night Walk in ''Tengoku''[[note]]Ain't it weird how the only games with insta-fail conditions are noticeably easier?[[/note]]. It is literally just pressing A over and over for the entire mini-game. No variation whatsoever. Thankfully, Night Walk 2 actually mixes it up with obstacles.

* DisappointingLastLevel: The last third of the Medal rewards and post-game content in ''Heaven'' are based off of Rockers & its sequel, which involves a ScrappyMechanic. After you unlock Rhythmove Dungeon, there's no real motivation to collect Medals other than that.

** While not common, there are some who tend to ship the normal incarnations of the characters with their incarnations in the remixes.

** Many fans interpret the boy from Kung Fu Ball as being [[VideoGame/WarioWare Young Cricket]], due to their highly similar designs. This would later become AscendedFanon come Young Cricket's character trailer.

* SelfFanservice: Characters like MC Adore and the Wrestler are already {{Fanservice}} material as is, but fans often like to take more [[{{Moe}} modestly cute]] characters, such as Rhythm Girl, the Reporter, Ann Glerr, T.J. Snapper, and Kouhai, and make them more sexually pleasing than they are. Sometimes, characters like the Chorus Kids or the Huebirds will be aged up or redesigned to make them more attractive.

** Replacing the wrestler in Ringside with a random character, celebrity, or meme has become popular since the game launched in Japan in 2011.

* SelfFanservice: Characters like MC Adore and the Wrestler are already {{Fanservice}} material as is, but fans often like to take more [[{{Moe}} modestly cute]] characters, such as Rhythm Girl, the Reporter, Ann Glerr, T.J. Snapper, and Kohai, and make them more sexually pleasing than they are. Sometimes, characters like the Chorus Kids or the Huebirds will be aged up or redesigned to make them more attractive.

* SelfImposedChallenge:

** There is a very good relationship between fans of ''Rhythm Heaven'' and fans of ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'', due to both being quirky Japanese rhythm games with a cast of memorable characters.

* ItsEasySoItSucks: The first third of ''Megamix'' can be a real drag for veterans of the franchise since four of the first five groups of games consist of watered-down versions of games that return in their original form later on, with no Remixes to break up the monotony. It isn't until the sixth group (the group just before the Lush tower) that the easy-mode games permanently end.

** ''Megamix'' is more forgiving for newer players by having explicitly easier versions of some returning games, and by giving certain other games tune-ups in places (most noticeable in Rat Race, which has light signals where there were none in its original incarnation). That said, the game remains challenging for even series veterans, as Challenge Train gets to be several magnitudes more difficult than even ''Tengoku'' at its fiercest.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Chief director [[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Rhythm-Paradise/Iwata-Asks-Rhythm-Paradise/1-Rhythm-Tengoku-Game-Boy-Advance/1-Rhythm-Tengoku-Game-Boy-Advance-238693.html Kazuyoshi Osawa]] was initially nervous and unsure if ''Tengoku'' would do well and assumed that it would only attract a niche audience prior to release. To his relieve and delight, the game turned out to be a hit.

** Yuka, the girl who appears in Tap Trial has been nicknamed "Rhythm Girl" by the fandom due to her frequently being depicted as TheFace in most of the games, particularly by the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fandom.

** ''Megamix'' using the original version of Night Walk from ''Tengoku'' over the updated ''Fever'' version. While many don't have an issue and are happy to see the original version be playable outside of Japan, there are some who are disappointed with the decision, finding the remake in ''Fever'' to be superior to the original. Particularly its music.

** The Pop Star from ''Megamix'''s incarnation of Fan Club is intended to be a redesign of the Pop Star from ''Heaven'''s incarnation. Due to their different designs and voices (in Japanese) however, many fans interpret them as being two separate characters instead.

* {{Fanon}}: The music in ''Heaven's'' Love Lab and ''Megamix's'' Pajama Party are ''extremely'' similar, especially the singing in the two. Thus, it's a popular fan theory that the girl in Pajama Party is the child of the couple from Love Lab.

* CultClassic: The series manages to have a very dedicated audience, despite only having four games and being easily overshadowed by its sister series, ''VideoGame/WarioWare''.

** The girl who appears in Tap Trial has been nicknamed "Rhythm Girl" by the fandom due to her frequently being depicted as TheFace in most of the games, particularly by the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fandom.

** The ''Heaven'' games in ''Megamix'' can now be played with buttons with the flicking mechanic removed (though touch controls can be enabled) and on the 3DS' normal position, mitigating two of the major criticisms some have had with the original DS game, that being that you have to hold the DS in the vertical position and the [[ScrappyMechanic flicking mechanic]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The previous localizations for the soundtracks, especially ''Heaven,'' faced some complaints about [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the English versions being inferior to the Japanese version]]. ''Megamix'' mitigates this by adding a toggle switch between the English and Japanese soundtracks.

** ''Megamix'' using the original version of night walk from ''Tengoku'' over the updated ''Fever'' version. While many don't have an issue and are happy to see the original version be playable outside of Japan, there are some who are disappointed with the decision, finding the remake in ''Fever'' to be superior to the original. Particularly its music.

** ''Megamix'' using the original version of night walk over the updated ''Fever'' version. While some don't have an issue and are happy to see the original version be playable outside of Japan, there are many fans who are disappointed with the decision, finding the remake in ''Fever'' to be superior to the original. Particularly its music.

** ''Megamix'' using the original version of night walk over the updated ''Fever'' version. While some don't have an issue and are happy to see ''Tengoku'''s version be playable outside of Japan, there are many fans who are disappointed with the decision, finding ''Fever'''s version to be superior to ''Tengoku'''s.

* BrokenBase: Is the "Go for a Perfect!" system a [[AntiPoopSocking good way to curb unhealthily obsessive attempts at getting Perfects on stages,]] or is it a ScrappyMechanic that adds much-unneeded pressure?

** There are a group of fans who tend to ship the original pop singer from ''Heaven'' and her redesign from ''Megamix'' together. It helps that even though they're intended to be the same character, they look and sound different enough that they can seen as two different characters (which they're often interpreted as in {{Fanon}}).

** There are a minority of fans who tend to ship the original pop singer from ''Heaven'' and the redesigned pop singer from ''Megamix'' together. It helps that even though they're intended to be the same character, they look and sound different enough that they can seen as two different characters.

* FriendlyFandoms: The ''Rhythm Heaven'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' fandoms tend to be incredibly close and interconnected with each other, due to both being incredibly similar in terms of overall style and gameplay (despite their different genres), on top of sharing the same devs between both games (including Ko Takeuchi, who designs the characters in both games). It helps that both franchises are [[SharedUniverse confirmed to share the same setting]], with characters from both franchises frequently crossing over into each other.