Translated, the title is 'Taiko no Tatsujin: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orbs'. It features another fully-fleshed out Story mode, which seems to have become a staple for console Taiko games. This story involves Don-chan being warped to a different world again, this time tasked with retrieving a princess' lost voice, which has been split into seven orbs, together with a dragon partner, hence the title.
The interface used is the same one on the revamped HD arcade cabinet Taiko no Tatsujin 0, and is the first console Taiko to use it, together with Don-chan's slightly tweaked design, and accurate right down to the changed difficulty, to the scoring methods, to the Taiko 0 style results screen. The bachi-pen given with the game is of a slightly different design from the DS Taiko games, no longer using stickers but solid models of Don-chan and Kat-chan mounted on top.
The menu items and gameplay features are changed from the DS series of Taiko games. All the unlockables are combined into a single achievement list, called a stamp sheet. The Everyday Dojo, Don-chan's room and the mailbox have been axed, and so is the ability to change Don-chan's body colors. Instead, you are able to choose between the four drum characters introduced in Taiko Wii 3 (Don-chan, Kat-chan, Calcutta and Yomogimaru), and the costumes for each of them are differently colored. A large variety of Taiko Sounds are still available, and more can be unlocked through a secret password system similar to Taiko DS3.
Taiko 3DS is the first DS series Taiko no Tatsujin to have Ura modes, and also has the random modifiers Kimagure and Detarame as well as the ability to combine modifiers in one play, introduced on PSP DX. As with other first Taiko games on their respective consoles, Taiko 3DS's songlist consists of a mixture of fan favorites with new songs on a compact songlist, with the main selling point still being the Story Mode.
Full costume list
Treasure list
Boss battles
Story scripts
Stamp album and rank
Password mode
~ Theme song ~
Kimi to Hibiku Harmony (キミと響くハーモニー)
Kimi to Hibiku Harmony (キミと響くハーモニー)
No. of songs | 46 (total 55) |
No. of secret songs | 9 |
No. of songs with Ura | 5 |
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