Rhythm Heaven used to be a lot harder…

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[@kopekopekop]

As a once upon a time percussionist, it was really fun watching someone learn syncopation

[@jonathon422]

As a professionally trained percussionist and now music teacher, it is equally fun watching someone learn syncopation. 😁

[@SynoPTL]

What do you mean by syncopation? Which games are you referring to?

[@jonathon422]

@SynoPTL "Syncopation" is a musical term referring to notes that don't line up directly with the beat. So, any games that make you hit a button a little before or after the beat would be classified as a syncopated rhythm.

[@kopekopekop]

@@SynoPTL31:00 learning different polyrhythms might’ve been a better way to put it. But the right and left hand have different patterns, both move evenly but the left hand moves slower so in the span of the right playing 4 beats the left plays 3, creating a fun pattern of: both, R, L, R, both. I remember learning to play the pattern first, then as you play in time you can feel out the different time signature in each hand, in this case the right plays quarter notes on the beat and you groove until you feel an even triplet coming from your left hand.

[@eyebreath6412]

Its actually cool as someone growing up playing this game and the rest of them and now learning drums how easily syncopation and some polyrhythms came to me

[@lorettabes4553]

Seeing the older versions, I can see how they improved the mini-games by making them more straightforward and with added/better cues. Same with the DS version. I wish I could play the Pan-Pan one!

[@PsiVolt]

rhythm heaven silver on a GBA emulator and you can!

[@Se7en2107]

Dondo Pan Pan Dondo Pan Pan Don Pan Pan

[@bastian_5975]

no you do not. You think you do, but it is actually *just* bs. It's not a rhythm game, there is no cue, it's just learning to play a percussion instrument, but you don't get sheet music, you just get a terrible karaoke screen. The song is good. The game is not.

[@ShimaTheGlaceon]

@@bastian_5975 hop off tengoku if you not gonna bounce👹

[@_hollowsky]

why would you watch it if you haven't played it cringe

[@metalapplesus]

Someone might have said this in stream chat offscreen, but The thing about Quiz is, while you don't have to match the pace, he gives you the star at the end if you do so in Megamix. Also, if you don't do anything in the tutorial segment, it automatically gives you the perfect medal if prompted. (definitely in Megamix, I don't remember if it does this in Tengoku), since it kicks you out but you didn't mess up any of the "real game"'s inputs.

[@lemonfork1152]

Losing it over how he just cut out every instance of Wizard's Waltz, Toss Boys, Fireworks (except for the Remix 5 ending) and Night Walk 2 without even acknowledging it

[@croanix2070]

wizard waltz just being entirely skipped is great and i wouldnt of had it any other way

[@Flomsie]

Nahh don’t diss Wizard Waltz like that😭😭 Quiz is way worse

[@waff_less123h6]

Wizard waltz has the worst timing ever and the visuals are so difficult so if someone relies on those it hinder more than it helps

[@m4rcyonstation93]

They also skipped firework LMAO

[@thesemicolon7269]

@@m4rcyonstation93 and Toss Boys

[@emile_jeanne]

I don't think they skipped it per se, just that those games hadn't been made yet

[@Zachafinackus]

The master levels throwing in polyrhythms is wild lol.

[@bastian_5975]

@@Lykish Go play the game yourself. It is NOT easy. holding a polyrhythm is so hard that people actually just have to develop tricks to learn them half the time. Hell, even just holding the 3 and letting a metronome hold the 5 or vise versa is hard. the best part is that because you have to resort to tricks, even developing things further from there is hard. polyrhythm 2 ends with the 3:2 poly rhythm, but I cannot for the life of me hold a 3:4

[@synthetic_creature]

it's named polyrhythm in the original lol

[@avi_mation]

@@synthetic_creatureit’s built to scale but since it contains polyrhythms the fandom calls it polyrhythm

[@elianhg2144]

@@avi_mation its the opposite, the japanese name is "ポリリズム" which literally translates to "polyrhyhm" but since it resembles built to scale the fandom calls it built to scale

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

​​@@bastian_5975 It's easy to hold a 3:4 polyrhythm if you're already good at polyrhythms, which is something only musicians are. Rhythm Heaven as a series really feels like a shibboleth for musicians.

[@PsiVolt]

My friend got me a physical copy of this translation for my birthday and I just finished getting all superbs! Playing through the drum lessons now Bon Odori was the bane of my run

[@skiller5034]

I'm sorry, did you mean Bon *Dance* ?

[@PsiVolt]

@@skiller5034 no, I meant The☆Bon Odori They both were rough just for Superb requiring the weird delayed ones

[@Frappe3621]

I find the lady in the background’s bobbing head a really good indicator of when you’re supposed to hit in that game

[@GamingHole]

Your issue at the Build to Scale 2 was you saw those as separate tracks instead of the sound pattern. Listening to the pattern and not just visuals is key :3

[@somerobloxdude3699]

Honestly i thought he knew getting good at Rhythm Heaven requires listening to audio cues rather than relying on visuals

[@sdsign4229]

If CJ really wants a challenge, with polyrhythms and such, he really needs to play Rhythm Doctor.

[@artisticconfusion8092]

Oh boy, rhythm doctor will get ya, especially in act 5 but it's so addictive as a game none the less

[@sdsign4229]

@@artisticconfusion8092 I'm so glad that CJ actually played through RD on Twitch! Sad that he won't make it into a KZbin video, but I'm thankful that he liked it a lot!

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

Isn't there a 7/8 chart in that one?

[@sdsign4229]

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 Yup, he actually played it on stream a couple months back! Though he said he wouldn't upload it, so as not to hurt the channel algorithm, sadly. Wish he had a second channel.

[@Voidbear_FNaF_and_Undertale]

"It's on the 7th and not the 8th" Barber Shop Remix: Where did you think we got it from?

[@eeveestars3668]

I came for the Mario I stayed for the Rhythm Heaven keep it up I am loving the Rhythm Heaven Content

[@Happy_spider_boi]

I've recently been obsessed with rhythm heaven so i can't wait to watch this fully

[@drrichardew7878]

Idk man, I think rhythm heaven DS is a lot more difficult purely for the complex controls and how absolutely strict it is with scoring

[@milkyuuuu]

RH DS scoring is absolutely cruel

[@m.l.7558]

Wii is more lenient? Whenever I beat remix 6 on Ds and the other ones, I go to tryt

[@wiggletonthewise2141]

As a drummer, watching rh play throughs are so funny, like he struggled so hard over basic polyrhythms lol

[@phaedra._.]

More rhythm heaven is EXACTLY what I needed. Easily my favorite genre of cjya video

[@dakaramotto.]

Shoutout to cjya rhythm heaven videos. One of my favorite genders

[@minecraftmatthew1393]

I tried to research about how the question “Which are best: cats or dogs?” has an answer, but since I don’t speak Japanese, I was kind of stumped. From what I understand, 45 translates from Goroawase to Japanese to “neko”, meaning “cat”, but I would love if someone who understands it could confirm or correct this.

[@lrgogo1517]

This is the first time I’ve ever heard 4 ➡︎ ‘ne’

[@professoryeetus8955]

oh that makes sense, this entire time i thought it was a joke.

[@-themightymittens-]

Spaceball actually plays the first 4 hits over and over until you get it The bon odori one is so hard

[@meep.1ly]

Bro is a Rhythm Heaven God at this point

[@EnheTook50Benadryl]

no he isnt

[@meep.1ly]

@@EnheTook50Benadryl Oh ok…?

[@EnheTook50Benadryl]

also he failed quiz show 💀

[@meep.1ly]

@@EnheTook50Benadryl i meant the Rhythm Heaven series not just this one game

[@mylessolomonperkins4052]

He has ascended *to* the rhythm heaven

[@pppfan103]

With Polyrhythm 2 I usually just try to think of the inputs as like a line of inputs rather than two separate tracks

[@alexread6767]

Glad to see you liked Bouncy Road! A lot of people dont, but i always thought it was cute.

[@somerobloxdude3699]

People hated Bouncy Road?

[@hygiei]

bro im so glad someone else finally had the experience that power calligraphy is weirdly hard, for me it was the hardest in the game lmao

[@Tom-wg6qp]

Loving the rhythm heaven content cjya!

[@blueswitchpalace]

Rhythm Heaven? Nah. CJYA in Heaven of Rhythm.

[@EnheTook50Benadryl]

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[@EnheTook50Benadryl]

not only is gba not the hardest game but 100% means all perfects (so hardest is ds)

[@rm_steele]

CJ playing Polyrhythm Mania would be great but based on how he did here, it would destroy him

[@h3971]

Remember the time I played a custom map for the asriel dreemur fight and I didn't even beat it at the lowest speed

[@JanDe77]

I personally think that the ds one is way more difficult

[@jfurycat]

yea for real it's hard to flick the stylus so quickly sometimes

[@pxlslmy]

Doo-wop

[@ohmygahdbilly]

@@pxlslmy i will track you down for reminding me of the doowop

[@mariotheundying]

I play on emu cuz my DS died long ago (I would've used an R4 card, which literally everyone with a DS had in my country, latin america) so the only one that literally always sucks is the one with the love lizards, hate 'em, literally not capable of doing it perfectly, but I bet it would've been easier on DS

[@SQUAKKC]

The doo-wop one is still in my nightmares

[@ILoveSeaTurtles64]

Yay, I was hoping you would do more Rhythm Heaven! I love your videos!

[@pdg3513]

Ya sadly I don't think there likely will be another rhythm heaven game. Why? Because unfortunately one of main creative people behind the game Tsunku who was a famous Japanese singer and did do some of the Japanese vocals for some of the mini games like Karate Man. Lost his voice due to throat cancer. He is still alive and well but since he is such a big part behind the game and can't sing anymore that is definitely a big obstacle to overcome.

[@ufuemete]

He made a tweet about wanting the fans to voice their want for a new game & he said he wanted to make a new one so there’s still a possibility

[@I_Eated_The_Soap]

35:04 look up "Bits & Bops", it's a spiritual successor to Rhythm Heaven that both looks really cute and, from the demo that includes 3 games, is really fun

[@Jumpy-Dragon]

Anyone else start subconsciously tapping their foot or tapping the rhythm/tapping along to the rhythm?

[@BinglesP]

I don't do it often but yeah I have all 4 Rhythm Heaven games(3 on my physical 3DS, Fever on Dolphin) and I always feel like booting them up whenever I listen to the songs or watch someone else play them

[@user-ff6eg3jy4k]

I started playing it at my PC on 30.10.22 and I still only have 47/48. Skrew you, ninja reincarnate. I still remember my first superb was a space dance, the game was hard at first, but I felt like I can do this one.

[@brysonkemp1544]

I would love to see you go through this game blindfold. YOU WILL SUFFER

[@AnneTipha]

god i want rhythm heaven on switch so bad

[@meldarion]

Now it's time for the blindfolded run against Jaiden 😂

[@aidanzeglis]

i adore observing cj struggle with polyrythms, i love them so much

[@BinglesP]

Same, I also love weird time signatures but there's only one non-toy/endless Rhythm Heaven song that isn't 4/4 or 3/4 unfortunately(and it was in DS which he played offscreen)

[@mikez5648]

2:57 LOOK MA I''M ON TV

[@chiaraislily]

Built to scale 2 melt my brain just by watching it lol congrats on conquering the game! It seemed really fun

[@elianhg2144]

Um actually its called polyrhythm 2, it being called built to scale is a misconception 🤓

[@chiaraislily]

@@elianhg2144 ah, that name is much more self explanatory regarding the difficulty lol

[@reviverec9607]

You did really great! At clipping your mic!

[@thequeenofstaplesmiles]

Nice job, now get all the perfects.

[@MonsieurBro]

Can't remember if you've done the DS one yet, but that one is pure CBT later on. I remember actually needing to skip some games as a kid

[@emil._.9753]

i missed the rhythm heaven videos ngl

[@nakozu5281]

frfr

[@thesemicolon7269]

Yooo let’s go more rhythm heaven

[@IkaraPopsicle]

Love how the most replayed part is the remix 5 cus of the bangin music and how hard it is

[@serenitywingss]

i can't believe this had frickin 4/3 polyrhythms.... my god the kids that got this game must've been BRUTALIZED

[@GamerGenius17]

I first played this game about a year ago after playing the ds and 3ds one and I couldn't get into it. But then I was bored one day so I got all superbs and most of the perfects in like 6 hours of playing the game.

[@kevinistired]

rhythm heaven videos are my favorite

[@kulekid6917]

you should try to beat all the drum lessons in this game theyre very easy and would only add about 10 minutes of playtime🙂

[@nickilew22]

omfg the lil marching space bunnies in remix 7 are the cutest lil guys i’ve ever seen

[@BinglesP]

Yes, I agree! They're originally characters from Rhythm Heaven's sister series, WarioWare, and also play into the East Asian trope of rabbits from the moon like the rabbit in Bunny Hop does. They're in the RH minigame Working Dough 2, which is specifically based on the Japanese fairy tale Tale of the Bamboo Cutter(Lady Dough is the in-universe counterpart of Princess Kaguya) which has been referenced in other media as well. Even Western games reference the trope, like the Ubisoft(from France, like me) game Rabbids Go Home Infodump I know, but I thought I should tell you more about them since we both love them

[@nickilew22]

@@BinglesP i didn’t realize they showed up in working dough 2 as well that’s so fun! they are so precious!! it is interesting to hear ab the origin of the lil guys since i’m not as familiar with the history of the rhythm heaven games. it’s v cool to hear the tales they were inspired by so the info dump is welcome (:

[@lorettabes4553]

What timing! I just got the DS version and it's pretty hard for me with the flick gimmick. At least to get superbs. Like I am not getting a perfect in this game.

[@ThatOneGuy-qw1xx]

you’ll get used to it, it takes practice to master (sounds corny but it’s true)

[@BinglesP]

If you have a 3DS with CFW I'd recommend the Touchless mod, some games are still better with touch controls(Love Lab and Love Lizards' slide inputs especially) but it's always nice to have the option to use buttons It's how I got a Superb on Rhythm Rally actually

[@OctarianSquid]

I hope they add this to GBA nso

[@frostboi77]

32:30 cj on his way to becoming a musician lesgo

[@germanplayz_8073]

everytime that long facial hair got pulled it just shocked my beard, to watch that one hurt on a different way

[@popodumman6816]

cjya i demand you show all the minigames that were skipped on this video. how dare you keep the Toss Boys away from me

[@avi_mation]

to be honest, even tho i wouldn’t say the scoring was stricter, let’s talk about how on power calligraphy if you get ONE miss you get an ok.

[@elianhg2144]

It depends on the input you miss

[@PhoneyX]

you need to get that last input right in order to get a superb

[@nathangottlieb2151]

CJ fell into polyrhythm hell......

[@bigd1O1]

Waiting for them to bring a new one or one with every past mini game in on the switch

[@PeculiarPumpkin07]

bro's yet to even play rhythm heaven paradise, only than shall he be named the rhythm god

[@cjya]

I can’t tell if you’re memeing but that is not a game

[@RaffyTaffy14]

@@cjya nah it's called rhythm heaven paradise tengoku world

[@thatoneguy9582]

rhythm heaven: arkham world

[@PhoneyX]

​@@RaffyTaffy14 +arcade kiosk demo

[@YoloYester94]

YO LET’S GO I LOVE RHYTHM TENGOKU

[@luciekato6383]

RHYTHM HEAVEN VIDEO YEAAAAAAAAAAAH !

[@biancabarnett1984]

CJ having a mental breakdown from build to scale is sad 😢

[@dragonthatshootsboilingtea3884]

RHYTHM FOR THE RHYTHM GODS

[@biancabarnett1984]

I love rhythm heaven content

[@mrutherford1106]

I just replayed remix 6 of this game yesterday. I missed maybe 5 inputs and got a Try Again

[@foen1987]

I AM READY MY BODY IS READY

[@lordknightalex]

oh the face in the calligraphy thing is made out of letters and kanji arranged to form a face! thats neat!!

[@opa-rappa]

So uhh... Tram and Pauline are those Japanese legend animals which can shapeshift between human and foxes (tannokis?). These are my findings.

[@GumshoeClassic]

Tanuki are racoon dogs. These two are Kitsune if I recall correctly, trickster foxes (Kitsune literally just means "fox"). Yokai folklore features quite a few instances of seemingly normal animals having mysterious powers.

[@opa-rappa]

@@GumshoeClassic Ok thanks.

[@Leron...]

I don't know how to explain this, but when he shouts into the mic, it sounds like a 75/25 split between Patton Oswalt and Jerry Seinfeld.

[@blackfangj3251]

That actually seems hard

[@genericfatgoose5329]

25:08 HOW, I messed up nothing on my first attempt of cosmic dance, not a single stink eye from the conductor and I get an OKAY. How CJ. WHAT ARE YOUR TRICKS.

[@SpeedyNinja1152]

At least you're not playing this on an emulator on PC. Doing that would be an absolute nightmare with the *input lag.*

[@aurorasaura5907]

I tried to play this game emulated and it was a little bit off but i was able to adapt for all the other games, but i quite literally could not get past Bon Odori i had to give up

[@viennas2930]

Congrats!

[@adamchuchala3614]

as someone who plays polyrhythm mania, it it HILARIOUS when someone struggles with polyrhythm

[@Flomsie]

Why were Wizard Waltz, Toss Boys and Fireworks completely absent from this video? (Well the icons were there and a little bit of Fireworks was shown during remix 5 but still)

[@ShycoWar]

Gonna throw a wild guess and assume he either thought they weren't interesting enough to watch, or just plain disliked them THAT much. Might even be both.

[@anglerfish8439]

I wish I knew there was a fan-made english translation a few years back. The games are simple but it was a bit annoying to learn with instructions I couldn't understand

[@infernox1099]

now for the DS version

[@waff_less123h6]

You should do ds rhythm heaven!

[@Imamotherfreakingavocado]

Personally I think the hardest Rhythm Tengoku game is the ds version, I hate the flick controls bro

[@Rebateman]

Will next Cjya play next the Arcade version?

[@SimoSanchezOFF]

Rhythm heaven touch was really hard, because you need to get a lot of compliments to get a superb

[@Doyouknowwho]

Now do it blindfolded 😈

[@CatKing.]

Good job

[@CatKing.]

And third

[@lrgogo1517]

“Oh, he’s reached Toss Boys! I can’t wait to see his-” *> cj edits every instance of **_Toss Boys_** out of the video* “😐”

[@ItsMoloko]

Sad rhythm heaven videos underperform :(

[@d4rkshadow826]

I’ve almost entirely superbed this game, just missing the snappy trio, karate man 2 and ninja 2

[@Til_What]

I actually had no idea there was a GBA one and I love the series.

[@nero7467]

Why did you skip tossing boys?

[@thespeedyyoshi]

Wait, why did he completely edit out toss bois? Hahahaha

[@csuki]

Dude I remember you from the death note netflix movie!

[@CansteamHeadcannon]

Watching a non musician learn polyrhythms is always fun :)

[@tjtjtjtjtjify]

Wow, built to scale 2 expecting you to have 3 4 polyrhythm is insane for a silly little rhythm game.

[@jefffromtheoverwatchteam4264]

I got all perfects in all games (except fever remix 10) and if you are going for 100% in any of them then megamix is the hardest one without a doubt. Majority of challenges in that game is harder than getting ANY perfect, looking at you Extreme Sports/ Lockstep Lockout/ Copycats :(

[@SilentRealm6677]

I heard there's ongoing retranslation of RH silver as rhythm heaven advance but it's still work in progress

[@marshall3314]

14:28 bookmark for myself

[@ABHyt]

I cant tell if this guy played megamix or not

[@FlipperFlop]

What did he say at 0:48?

[@happily_blue]

im gonna flex here and say i don't think this would be so hard if i knew Japanese

[@creppruby]

i’ve looked and i wanted to ask where i can watch the vod for this

[@mariobeast14]

Damn didn’t know it existed on the gba🤣

[@Uhm_Ackshually]

My rankings (based on difficulty) 1. Rhythm tengoku 2. Rhythm heaven (DS) 3. Rhythm heaven megamix (just because of tangotronic 3000) 4: rhythm heaven fever

[@donanilao7724]

Now go for a perfect