It's a great day out, your mood is unusually good, and you skip along the streets smiling and dancing (while getting weird looks from people no doubt). A chorus of violins play and the music swells. Are you feeling blessed?
Blessed Bouquet Buskers| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x4 (178) | x5 (289) | x6 (492) | x10 (868) |
Taiko 0 Y, Taiko PS4 1
188
none
??? Spend any prolonged time with this uplifting tune and perhaps you'd feel that way too! Blessed Bouquet Buskers, a song with quite a playful alliteration in its title, is one of several songs that was purchasable in the Don Medal store, a system introduced in the Yellow version of the arcade. Meaning a little grind was needed to grab this song for yourself (either that, or you could shell out a little bit for DLC for its first debut in console Taiko). Specifically, the song was in the Winter season of the Don store, and the swelling violin tune does capture a winter festive feeling quite well. Some have said BBB is very Christmas-like, and they wouldn't be wrong.
The composer is steμ (ste-myu), whom we have covered in much detail in a previous Song of the Week for Taiko Drum Monster. After gaining prominence with that song as the newest hire in NAMCO SOUNDS, this is their second contribution to the game. Very shortly after, steμ would go on to contribute yet another song to Tenkaichi Otogesai, Seiten no Reimei, but that's a story for another time!
Where most 10* Onis around this era are continuously pushing the envelope in technical proficiency, speed, and stamina requirement, it's refreshing sometimes to see an entry-level chart like BBB being introduced in Taiko's highest difficulty level. Indeed, there's not many nasty tricks up its sleeve, except good old 1/16 streams with simple, regular patterns we've been seeing for years but is always satisfying to pull off. It's faster than Kurenai at least, and is a step up from that challenging chart of the old days. Along with mint tears and Haikei Doppelganger, this makes for any player's perfect first foray into 10* Oni. Helps that the song itself is in general very welcoming and happy-sounding, of course!
