[1] The player controls a slowly spinning stick, and must maneuver it through a series of mazes without touching the walls.

The game starts with simple training levels, in which players are told how to play and how to get around the first corners.

Teacher Hare trains Kururin in the art of controlling the Helirin, a stick-shaped helicopter that has a slow-spinning propeller.

Piloting the Helirin through the different worlds will be a difficult task, but using Teacher Hare's valuable lessons, Kururin bravely sets out on his adventure to rescue his lost family.

The reviewer praised the game's multiplayer mode, which he described as "an absolute blast", as well as its lasting appeal, but also commented that the "cutesy" characters and music would be a turn-off for "a lot of people".

He stated that the game is "excellent at filling up small periods of free time with its short, level-based nature".

[10] Another sequel was also released only in Japan for the GameCube in 2004, entitled Kururin Squash!, which became the only title of the series to use 3D computer graphics, as well as to appear on a home console.

The Helirin makes a cameo appearance as a trophy in Melee, but is incorrectly referred to as "Heririn" in the American version.