Closing this May in symmetry, after two Variety features in a row here's a 2nd Namco Original in a row! Those keeing in touch with our alternative social media outlets may already have guessed the reason for it...
Magical Parfait
マジカル・パフェ
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★7 (205) |
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mgpafe (Magical Parfait, as in phonetical pronounciation Pàafé)One of the Session de Dodon ga Don launch's debut songs, Magical Parfait has once again become a relevant topic on the current Taiko front, seeing how it has been included as part of the latest 10-fold digital song collection that was launched just two days prior: the Taiko no Tatsujin Namco Original Soundtrack: Kiteretsu Collection (太鼓の達人 ナムコオリジナルサウンドトラック 「キテレツコレクション」), with the accompanying DJ Fua MV on the official Taiko no Tatsujin channel premiering the day after (link). Just like Metameta☆Universe! and Ai Nandaze from the last month, only this song among the 10-piece collection was left for us to cover up; what better occasion to do so today, I say!?
The -as the 6th digital Namco Original OST dubs its content- 'oddball' tune Magical Parfait has been the first general rhythm gaming tune coming from Maya 'MAYA' Abe (阿部麻弥; Twitter, YouTube channel), a programmer who is self-declaredly proficient into the 'Experimental Electronica' branch of music. Although being the driving force to the song's conception and creation, what we can hear as the end-product has been the labor of three more parties for further refininement: the Jingle BGM Music Company (ジングルBGM楽曲制作株式会社, or 'JBG for short'), Shingo Kamata (鎌田慎吾) and the nicknamed K Masera, the most Taiko-attuned of the three due to his multiple former contributions, the last trio of which being all for PS4-debuting songs between this one, Freeway3234 and Argent Memories.
Yuji Masubuchi (増渕裕二) of the Taiko Team was the drummer in charge of the song's Taiko notecharts, all Don-dominant with the exception of its Oni challenge, one of the few 9* in its launch game to offer a full-accuracy music sheet to play with with no set-hit-indefinite drumrolls of sorts. It's just you, one hitballoon, and the frantic 1/16 charting succession a-la Kurukuru Kurokkuru trying to tilt you off course with its signature 'oddball' rhythms. It's all fun and games for the most seasoned rhythm-catchers out there, sure, but don't let yourself to be lulled by an early sense of security... lest some odd-scrolling single notes and one final 1/24 trickery might trick you of on the second half!
