Game:

Rhythm Heaven (2008)

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This game can be found here on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/772260/NitorInc_Touhou_Microgames/
And, it's free, so give it a try if you're at all interested!

So, ever heard of WarioWare, Mega Microgame$? Well, this is basically that, but with Touhou characters instead. You're given a slew of microgames at random, and have just a few seconds to complete the task presented within each one.

Interestingly, in the game, microgames can use either the keyboard or the mouse, but the game will kindly tell you to either "use da keyz" or "use da mouse" before each game, so that you'll be ready for them.

You start with 4 lives (represented by cucumbers here), and lose a life each time you fail a microgame. You gain 1 point per microgame encountered (whether you pass or fail them, and the score even includes the one you lose your final life on).

Of course, they start off nice and easy, but after every 4 games, the game speeds up a bit, and every 13th one will be a boss stage. The first time you play Story mode, the first boss stage is the finale, and the game ends when you complete it.

However, this is not the first time I'm playing Story mode, so I get to keep going after beating the boss stage! Yep, repeating Story mode makes it endless, and after each boss stage, the game speed goes back down, but the microgame difficulty level goes up, and then the pattern repeats for every set of 13 games. Fortunately, you do get a 1-up if you're missing any lives when you complete a boss stage (but you can't go above the starting amount of 4 lives, unfortunately).

After clearing 3 boss stages, the game difficulty can't rise any further, so the game just gets faster and faster instead. Before you know it, everything will be moving at ludicrous speed!

I managed to get through 6 boss stages here before I screwed up too many times due to the speed and my nervousness, ending with a final score of 82. Man, I can't believe I screwed up the shell game once, but a couple of others were very borderline misses (though I had some borderline successes too), and I'm surprised the one that ended my game counted as a failure, because I was sure I timed that right...

At least I nailed all of the boss stages that appeared. In this mode, there are 2 different boss games that can be randomly chosen from. One is sort of like a platformer that turns into a shoot-em-up, and the other one is basically Rhythm Heaven. I'm surprised at how good I am at the Rhythm Heaven one, acing it even at high speeds. I did make one mistake the final time it appeared in this run, but you're generously given 3 HP for it, so I was still able to pass it anyway.

Unfortunately, it looks like HyperCam 2 decided to desync the video footage from the audio of this recording every time the Rhythm Heaven boss stage appeared, and that's a real shame. Really, of all the games it had to do that on... I blame the purple foggy background that appears during that game. At least the video does gradually resync with the audio every time afterwards, and there doesn't seem to be a problem with any other games.

UPDATE (July 27): I've uploaded a video at a smaller resolution where that boss stage doesn't desync:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlhsMoO99g

Now, there are some other modes that can be tried out after clearing Story mode. I might decide to make videos of those later. We shall see...

Also, note that this is technically a demo. Who knows? Maybe they'll add more content to this game in the future, but it'll still be free to play, as far as I know.

Feel free to comment, but just know that I dislike profanity. Any comments containing F-bombs and/or S-bombs will be shot down with Nitori's cucumber gun! (In other words, they'll be deleted.)
(Comments containing other types of inappropriate content and excessively spammy pointless comments may meet this fate as well.)

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