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Widgets (組み立てキット?, Kumitate Kitto) are recurring objects in the Rhythm Heaven Series. A widget is composed of a rod and one or two square nuts.

Story[]

Rhythm Tengoku[]

Epilogue 3DS First Contact OK

While Widgets do not appear in Rhythm Tengoku, rods known as Akai Mono (赤いモノ?, Red Objects) do appear in the Rhythm Game Polyrhythm. They are industry products whose details are kept a trade secret. They are considered hazardous because they explode when colliding with walls[1]. In the game, the rods roll along two raised paths, and the player must press the corresponding button to raise the blocks when they reach a gap.

Rhythm Heaven[]

Widget DS

Widgets make their first actual appearance in Rhythm Heaven in Built to Scale, where they are portrayed as a white rod and nuts. The player must wait for the nuts to roll into place, then launch the rod into them to form the Widget. They later appear in Built to Scale 2, this time colored red. Workers are instructed to follow the rhythm while producing the Widgets, but they get paid the same regardless[2].

Rhythm Heaven Fever and Rhythm Heaven Megamix[]

Widget
Sprite 3DS Rhythm Item Defective Widget

The square mass-produced objects appear again in Rhythm Heaven Fever and Rhythm Heaven Megamix in Built to Scale, where the player must bounce around a rod while waiting for two nuts to come into place, after which the player must launch the rod into them to form the complete Widget. The company sometimes makes defective products, and a worker in product testing accidentally sold the bad parts to collectors for a lot of money[3].

Appearances[]

Akai Mono[]

Widgets[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

In Other Languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Flag jp Japanese 赤いモノ Red Objects
Language Name Meaning
Flag jp Japanese 組み立てキット Assembly Kit
Flag us EnglishNOA Widget
Flag gb EnglishNOE Widget
Flag fr French Le bidule The contraption
Flag es Spanish Cachirulo Cube
Flag de German Herr Utensil Mr. Utensil
Flag it Italian Mr. Congegno Mr. Device
Flag kr Korean 조립 키트 Assembly Kit

References[]

  1. キャラクターアルバム ステージ4 (Character Album Stage 4)
  2. "Slogan for March: Turns out you get paid the same whether you're on the beat or not." ~ Assembly Line Slogans, Rhythm Heaven
  3. "I work in product testing. My company doesn't make a lot of defective products, but when we do, I'm NOT supposed to sell the bad parts to collectors for a lot of money. Oops." ~ Defective Widget, Rhythm Heaven Megamix
  4. "赤いもの" (Akai Mono) ~ comment left in the file "rcad_assembly_parts_labels.h", Rhythm Heaven Fever
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