Rhythm Heaven Fever is the third game in the Rhythm Heaven series, released in Japan for the Wii on July 11, 2011, before being rolled out to the other regions the following year.

Rather than rely on the motion controls of the Wii, the game's input simply consisted of the A and B buttons on the Wiimote. For the endless modes in the game, it is the first time not just that there is an Endless Remix, but there are also two-player co-operative modes. Four games from the Japan-only Rhythm Tengoku can also be unlocked.

Succeeded by Rhythm Heaven Megamix.

Trope for the fans!

• Animal Stereotypes: The pigs in Board Meeting are portrayed as businessmen.
• Anime Hair: Mandrill's hair grows to twice its length in Hole In One 2, and by Remix 9, it's grown past the screen and a monkey is climbing it.
• Asbestos-Free Cereal: Packing Pests has you working for a company that produces "Spider-Free Candy". Your job is to keep it spider-free.
• Astronomic Zoom: This happens during the climax of Flock Step. It's yet another trick the game uses to mess players up.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Clap Trap, one of the endless minigames, plays like this, except the player has to stop a giant hand from karate-chopping them instead.
• Battle in the Rain: Both Samurai Slice and its sequel feature this.
• Big Eater: Forthington, the cat from Air Rally, seems to be one in the reading material.
• Big Little Man: For the entirety of "Tap Troupe", only the Tall Tappers’ feet and faces are visible, until the end when the camera zooms out to reveal that they all have ridiculously long legs.
• Bilingual Bonus: In Kung Fu Ball, the text on the neon sign on the right-hand side of the screen (利頭夢) doesn't say anything intelligible in Chinese (which you might assume given the minigame's theme), but it can be read as "rizumu" ("rhythm") in Japanese.
• Blah, Blah, Blah: The girl in Ringside asks questions of the wrestler and all we hear is "Wubba dubba dubba, 'zat true?" The wrestler is most likely not paying attention to the questions and is yes-ing her to death. Lampshaded in the game's reading material, where the reporter is asking him actual questions, and he still responds to everything with "Eh." It opens up the possibility that we're hearing what the wrestler hears.
• Bland-Name Product: The Cheer Readers in the American version twirl books simply titled "BOOK". In Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise, said books are printed with four circles instead.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: The aptly named "Manzai" endless game exclusive to the Japanese version of Fever.
• Bossa Nova: In "Bossa Nova", players take control of either Bossa (in single player) or his girlfriend Nova (who is assigned to player 2 in the multiplayer mode) and have to bounce away volleyballs that are thrown at them from offscreen. The level takes place in a cloud that slowly ascends towards the top of the screen, so the song fittingly resembles elevator music.
• Bragging Rights Reward: Getting a Superb on Extra Games or Night Walk will not earn you a medal like the other games.
• Brick Joke: The reading material for Monkey Watch shows that it was designed to help keep your spirits up by giving you a cheery way to look at the time. The reading material for Mr. Upbeat suggests he bought a Monkey Watch to act as a therapist for his depression.
• Brutal Bonus Level: After getting a Perfect in all of the games you'll unlock the Endless Remix. The game itself isn't all that hard (in fact, it's arguably the most fun Endless Game in Fever and quite possibly the whole series); what makes it needlessly difficult at first is that, of the five Endless Games used, three of them aren't seen anywhere else, and they don't bother to tell you how they work. This basically forces you to figure it out on your own (or consult a guide) and keep losing until you get it right.
• The Cameo:
  • The onions and beets from Tengoku's Rhythm Tweezers appear on the books in Cheer Readers, as well as the character from Night Walk, DJ Yellow and his student from Heaven's DJ School, and the Space Dancers from Tengoku, as well as the character from Night Walk, DJ Yellow and his student from Heaven's DJ School, and the Space Dancers from Tengoku.
  • Tram from Tengoku can be seen on the rating screens of Figure Fighter 2.
  • The instructor from Tengoku's Marching Orders makes an appearance in Flipper-Flop, this time instructing a bunch of seals.
  • Yagura-chan, the little girl seen in The☆Bon Odori and among the Drum Girls in Tengoku, shows up once again playing drums with a bandmate in the background of Remix 9.
  • Multiple characters from Heaven, such as the scientists from Love Lab and the Blue Birds, can be seen outside the window in Munchy Monk.
  • Pictures of the Rap Men from Tengoku can be seen at the end of Love Rap and its sequel.
• Camera Abuse: At one point in Exhibition Match, the camera zooms out dramatically. If you manage to hit the pitch properly, the ball goes flying and cracks the "glass".
• Cardiovascular Love: During the three newspaper poses in Ringside, the Reporter has five hearts above her head, implying that she has a crush on the Wrestler. However, it's only on screen for one second, and it's masked by camera flashes, making it a Freeze-Frame Bonus.
• Color-Coded Multiplayer: In the multiplayer mode, Player 1 is blue and Player 2 is orange. This applies to both the regular games and the endless games.
• The Comically Serious: The Police Detective looks and acts like a perfectly normal person in a world full of very unusual events and people. He also does his detective work with the assumption that his world works just like our world and denies anything that would be out of place in our world. His overwhelming normalness in a world that's insane causes him to loop back around to being funny.
• Cool Toy: The Muscle Doll in Figure Fighter.
• Co-Op Multiplayer: There are a few games made for co-op, where cues are given to both players and their scores are combined at the end.
• Creative Closing Credits: One that is a remake of the first game's Night Walk, featuring Marshal as the playable character.
• Creator Cameo: Just text "STAFF" on the Police Call toy.
• Crush Blush: Seen at the end of Double Date in Fever among the boy and his crush.
• Deliberately Monochrome: Remix 8 in Fever is sepia-toned, since all the games are being played in old photographs.
• Department of Redundancy Department: The Japanese name for Catch of the Day is literally "Fishing for Fish".
• Destroying a Punching Bag: "Figure Fighter" features a boxing figurine that has to puff up in order to successfully hit a punching bag. As the song progresses, the toy will begin to knock the bags off the chains prompting replacements to be immediately implemented to keep the song going until the end.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Remix 7 has a cosmic Level in the Clouds vibe, with characters having cool shades and spacesuits.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In both Samurai Slice games, The Wandering Samurai slaughters several demons without remorse... just because one of them stole a kid's toy.
• Distaff Counterpart: Hole in One 2 to Hole in One.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Bossa Nova's vocals are... certainly something. They're made worse in the English version, somehow. The "Great bumping!" caption doesn't really help matters... This was apparently an entirely intentional choice, as the sound designer said in an interview that he saw the game's cute visuals and thought they needed an adult edge.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: The police investigator from Police Call. One of his many idle conversations will be to wonder aloud who ate his donut, which will turn out to be the player.
• Dope Slap: In the "Manzai Birds" Endless Game in the Japanese version. If you don't slap your vulture companion whenever he messes up a joke, your run ends.
• Double Date: Occurs in the Rhythm Game of the same name, where a human boy goes on a date with his crush while protecting a weasel couple from stray balls.
• Dramatic Thunder: During the final stretch of Samurai Slice each perfect hit gets accompanied with these.
• Easter Egg: When Samurai Slice finishes, Wandering Samurai can slice the "To be continued..." text that appears on-screen.
• Fake-Out Fade-Out: At the end of Remix 10. Twice.^{note (spoiler)}Astute players will notice that in the original "Packing Pests", they get their paycheck at the end of the song. Here, the two fake-outs don't hand out the paycheck, only the real ending does.
• Funny Background Event:
  • In Double Date, every time a football is kicked up on-time, you can see it fall in the background and get caught. This continues into Double Date 2, where barnyard animals will catch the football in the air.
  • In both versions of Working Dough, the Game and Watch guy leaves, and he can actually be seen in one of the balls that the player bounces. He then commandeers a Humongous Mecha in the background.
  • During the Karate Man portions of Remix 9, a cat can be seen just behind Karate Joe. It can even be seen eating a fish a few times.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: invokedIn-universe example. According to the reading material for Double Date, the female student has a band that's really popular in Japan.
• Gratuitous English: The Japanese version of Cheer Readers ("Let's everybody go!").
• He Who Must Not Be Heard: While Cam does make an audible "Hmm!" sound in the beginning tutorial, he never says anything with a speech bubble.
• Indescribable Object: The rhythm game "Donk Donk" is so weird that the description just gives up, with just "This one's hard to explain." before going onto instructions.
• Interface Screw:
  • "Air Rally" has clouds that will occasionally cover what's going on.
  • Bossa Nova has various things in the foreground cover the titular characters.
  • Halfway through "Monkey Watch", a monkey in a hot air balloon will fly across the screen waving in an attempt to distract the player.
• Internal Homage: During Remix 7, the game briefly shows Karate Joe watching the Karate Man game from Tengoku on a TV.
• Kaizo Trap:
  • The last section of Remix 10 is Packing Pests, and it tricks you into thinking it's finished, only to start up a moment later with a few more beats, then fades to black... and does it again when the music picks up once more for a few final beats. Fake-Out Fade-Out indeed.
  • In Monkey Watch and Flock Step, in which you must continue the beat all the way until the stage fades out completely, with no accompaniment from the music for the last few seconds. People going for a Perfect may be caught off guard when they realize there are a few more inputs at the very end than they expected.
• Kappa: A kappa also appears in the "Kung-Fu Ball" endless game, tossing said ball to start the sequence.
• Level Ate: Remix 3 has a kitchen setting.
• Lost in Translation: "Cheer Readers" in the original Japanese version is noted to have especially glaring and incorrect English ("Let's everybody go!"), but it's very much intentional if the Punny Name of "Cheer Readers" didn't already tip it off to you. In the English localization, however, the cheerleaders speak their English perfectly, so the "Engrish" joke is slightly lost. That's right, something was lost in translation due to the translation being too good.
• Luminescent Blush:
  • Karate Joe lets one out after a successful combo in this game's version of Karate Man.
  • The cheerleader you play as in "Cheer Readers" will give off this whenever you miss.
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: The Donk-Donk game is so weird the English writers don't even try to give it an explanation.
• Masked Luchador: The Wrestler being interviewed at Ringside.
• Meaningful Combined Names:
  • In "See-Saw", the two guys jumping on the see-saw are literally named See and Saw.
  • Baxter and Forthington from "Air Rally" are a pun on the phrase "back and forth".
  • "Bossa Nova" stars a guy named Bossa and a girl named Nova.
• Mini-Game Credits: Subverted. Night Walk plays itself the first time it's shown, then becomes an actual minigame afterwards.
• Moon Rabbit: Remix 2 and the epilogues of Working Dough 2 all feature Orbulon's rabbits from WarioWare.
• Mundane Made Awesome:
  • The samurai's purpose in life in Samurai Slice is battling demons... to retrieve stolen children's toys. The last demon in the portal is always the one carrying it.
  • The mini-game See-Saw involves See and Saw doing acrobatics on a seesaw in order to test it, all while set to blaring metal music. Eventually, the one you control gets launched into the air several times in a row and, if you time the button presses right, he'll fuzz up and land with the explosion on the seesaw. At the end, they'll Air Guitar before exploding from pure awesomeness.
  • Ringside involves a Masked Luchador being interviewed by a reporter in front of the press set to catchy music. The reporter's questions are rendered as "Wubba dubba dubba, 'zat true?" and if done right, he nods to each question. The reporter going "Woah, you go, big guy!" and the crowd going "Pose for the fans!" are both cues to do two different poses, but in the case of the pose for the latter cue, it's either accompanied by dramatic background swirl or a cut to a newspaper article containing a photo of the Masked Luchador performing said pose.
• Musical Nod:
  • The Extra Games menu plays, fittingly enough, a rearrangement of the game selection music from Tengoku.
  • A remastered version of Tengoku's Rhythm Test results music plays in the background of the Police Call toy's "STAFF" screen.
• No Name Given The cast of Donk-Donk also goes unnamed in the North American version, instead simply labeling them as "Uh...these guys?"^note In the British English version, they're known as The Donkers. Then again, it's quite difficult to put a name on such a cast...
• Non-Indicative Name: The last part of Night Walk takes place during the day.
• Noob Bridge: Monkey Watch, a simple keep the beat game. Those generally don't show up until well over halfway into the overall game.^note Tengoku has Marching Orders, but Marching Orders is easy compared to other keep the beat games due to the large amounts of breaks and being shorter than Bunny Hop or Lockstep. While more skilled players can get through Monkey Watch no problem, newer players will likely struggle or give up when they find that they struggle to keep timing.^note Outside of "keep playing it until the game just clicks," the only advice that can be offered is that the game doesn't explain the purple monkies' gimmicks very well. Each monkey is actually high fived on every other beat, but the pink monkies need you to high five them on the offbeat of each beat. Thus, you make an input on the first monkey half a beat earlier than normal, and the second input is made half a beat later than normal, with an overall beat separating the two.
• Nostalgia Level:
  • Karate Man, the first mini-game of Tengoku, makes a reappearance near the end.
  • The Built to Scale game manages to cram two Nostalgia Levels into one by combining the elements from the first two games in the series.
  • There are also four remastered stages from Tengoku as unlockables, and the Mini-Game Credits sequence is a remake of Night Walk, also from Tengoku.
  • The English version, to make up for removing Manzai, remade Mr. Upbeat, an Endless Game from Tengoku.
• Obstructive Foreground:
  • "Monkey Watch" has a hot air balloon blocking the view of the monkeys.
  • "Air Rally" has the obstructive foreground move in from the background.
  • Bossa Nova has tree branches and clouds blocking the view, requiring the player to keep track of the regular and alternate patterns.
• Parental Bonus: Bossa Nova, whose narrators sound very... enthusiastic.
• Perpetual Frowner: Cam could count as this. It's his default expression and, apart from face-signaling in the rhythm test, is only ever seen smiling once.◊
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Miss Ribbon and Cam.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Pirate Crew. They just like to offer boat rides for pigs from island to island.
• Piss-Take Rap: Played for Laughs in Love Rap, with the lyrics amounting to "into you, fo' sho', all about you, crazy over you".
• Player Nudge:
  • In Bossa Nova, if you mess up, the voices briefly say their cues louder before going back to their... normal cues.
  • In Samurai Slice, if you mess up during the part where the story covers the screen, the words and pictures will get knocked out of the way so that you can see yourself.
• Prehistoria: Remix 5 in this game has a prehistoric theme of sorts. For example Catch of the Day in the remix has a caveman in the place of Ann Glerr.
• A Rare Sentence: The description of the "Tap Trial" minigame:
  Think you've got what it takes to tap-dance with the monkeys? (Has anyone ever written that sentence before?)
• Regional Bonus:
  • The European/Australian version has both the Japanese and English soundtracks, as well as the voices.
  • The Japanese version has an Endless Game titled "Manzai". Because it was too difficult to translate properly, localized versions contain a remake of Mr. Upbeat from Rhythm Tengoku instead.
• Retraux: The Endless Game Lady Cupid is a homage to Kid Icarus, down to the graphics.
• The Reveal:
  • Played for laughs in Exhibition Match. The reason it takes so long for the pitcher's ball to reach the batter from behind the curtain? A monkey catches the ball mid-flight, waits, then tosses it out to the batter.
  • Screwbot Factory apparently has you screwing the heads onto tiny robots, but the OK and Superb endings reveal that they're actually Humongous Mechas.
  • Tap Troupe has the troupe's faces at the bottom and their feet at the top. The end reveals that they're actually extremely tall, thus the reason for the frames.
• Rush Boss: Remix 2 has a fast-paced rock track with several difficult segments involving Tamborine and Fork Lifter, especially considering how early it's encountered in the game. It's also the shortest remix (and one of the shortest songs) in the franchise, clocking in at less than a minute.
• Say It with Hearts: During Love Rap 2, a pink heart appears in one of the speech bubbles.
• Seesaw Catapult: The central focus of See-Saw. In the Rhythm Game, playground inspectors See and Saw "test" a see-saw by jumping on it to launch each other into the air.
• Series Mascot: Marshal, Cam, and Miss Ribbon (who are Suspiciously Similar Substitutes to the Chorus Kids) run the Rhythm Test and the credits minigame, Night Walk.
• She's a Man in Japan: Mandrill is called "he" in the English version. The same character is called Mandoriko^note Japanese names that end in "ko" are usually feminine. and uses "atashi"^note a feminine first-person pronoun in the Japanese version.
• Shout-Out:
  • There's a Game & Watch character cameo in Working Dough (the reading material refers to him as Mr. Game & Watch), and one of the baseball players in Exhibition Match looks remarkably like something Shigeru Miyamoto had drawn in the '80s.
  • The 2P Endless Game Kung Fu Ball stars Young Cricket as Player 1.
  • The endless game Lady Cupid, in all of its 8-bit glory, is likely to be a shout-out to Kid Icarus. Her general appearance, including her green hair, could also be a shout-out to Palutena from the same game.
  • The British English version adds one in; the boy and girl from Double Date are namechecked as Romeo and Julia in the credits.
• Smug Smiler: The spiders in Packing Pests sport a smug grin if you catch them instead of slapping them away like you're supposed to.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Remix 8 features the usual silly minigames...all to a song about heartbreak.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Marshal, Cam, and Miss Ribbon are similar to the Chorus Kids from Rhythm Heaven. Marshal in particular looks almost exactly like one.
• Sweet Seal: "Flipper Flop", where four baby harp seals dance by rolling around.
• Swivel-Chair Antics: Board Meeting.
• Take That!: Those pigs in the Board Meeting minigame? They're called "Executives".
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: One would think that a couple of hops would be enough to test the safety of any seesaw, yet See and Saw feel the need to repeatedly launch each other several feet into the air to accomplish this task, making one wonder exactly what these seesaws are being used for. The reading material related to See Saw implies that they might have a motivation besides simple testing, while the one for Working Dough explains See and Saw are also the emergency workers for whenever Rookie misses a fuel orb:
  Rookie: It's a good thing See and Saw were waiting below and ready to fling Mr. Game & Watch onto the ship!
  Veteran: Yeah, I keep them ready in case emergencies like that come up.
  Rookie: That was you? Wow, you are so on top of things! I hope to be half as good as you someday.
• Too Long; Didn't Dub:
  • The Manzai endless game was never put in localized versions because it's centered around a very Japan-specific form of comedy. To compensate this, other versions of the game contain a remake of Mr. Upbeat, an endless game from Tengoku.
  • The game doesn't have any dubs besides Japanese, English, and Korean. To make up for it, the European/Australian version contains the ability to switch between Japanese and English on the fly.
• Totally Radical: The English dub of Love Rap has the rappers spout intentionally corny lines like "Crazy into you!" and "Fo' sho'!"
• Video Game Cruelty Potential:
  • Nothing like swatting candy and catching spiders in Packing Pests.
  • Try getting a high score at Mr. Upbeat. Eventually as the music gets faster, Mr. Upbeat's comments of praise eventually become frantic begging for you to stop because his feet hurt.
    "So... tired... I think I can see through time..."
• Two Guys and a Girl: The mascots, as well as Love Posse ft. MC Adore.
• Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: In Exhibition Match, a cute pitcher girl tries to strike out a homely, mean-looking batter. You play as the latter. You might be thinking you're playing the villain in this case, until it's revealed the pitcher's been cheating with the help of a Mischief-Making Monkey.
• Unwanted Assistance: Double-subverted with the Cheer Readers, in-universe. You'd think obnoxiously cheering in a library would annoy the hell out of people studying there, but their cheering somehow works! The kid in the Double Date game even praises the fact that he got an A on a recent test with the help of their cheering. Of course, this is all assuming that you did it well. If you screw up and get a Try Again, people aren't as appreciative.
  "Would you keep it down?!"
• Visual Pun: Shrimp Shuffle involves shrimp hopping about to the beat in front of the sea, while a voice counts "1-2-3, A-B-C!". In Japanese, shrimp are called "ebi" (pronounced similar to "A B"), making this the Ebi Sea.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: According to the reading material, Baxter and Forthington, who act like a Straight Man and a Big Eater respectively.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Remix 2. The first one was relatively simple to get you used to the "no practice for you" aspect of Remixes. This one hits you with Monkey Watch straight off the mark. And it's short, so there's only a couple of mistakes between "OK" and "Try Again".
• Westminster Chimes: They sound off after Double Date's tutorial is finished, signifying the boy and his crush are meeting just after school gets out.
• You No Take Candle: Mandrill in the British English version. He speaks more normally in the American English translation.