Just like in the good ol' days where the Taiko Team had their official blog being updated three times in a single day (and sometimes, even more!), today we're getting a triple serving of official Taiko news, this time around being evenly spread between the official Twitter account, the blog and the Bandai Namco Youtube channel.
See you after the jump for the rest!
Starting with a bit of cold shower, a couple of songs are about to leave the arcade grounds for good. No series perma-removals this time around, so at the very least Lokamp can spare himself from writing another sappy pre-mortem SotW piece!
Green ver. Song Removal: January 22nd, 2020
| Title |  |  |  |  |  | |
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 | Suki na Hito ga Iru Koto 好きな人がいること Also found: Plus/STH | ★3 | ★3 | ★4 | ★6 | |
 | Doctor X Theme Doctor X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon ドクターXのテーマ ドラマ「ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子～」より Also found: Wii U2 (DLC) / 3DS3 (DLC) / Vita (DLC) / PS4 (DLC) / Plus/STH | ★3 | ★5 | ★6 | ★8 |
Other removal details for JP are as follows, with Asian Green Ver. details coming at a later date:
- Usage of these songs in Donder Hiroba tournaments and challenges are terminating earlier, starting December 26th, 2019 00:00
- Scores and rankings on Donder Hiroba will be closed off starting January 21th, 2020 07:00
- If you have set any of these songs as a favourite, the slot will be change back to unspecified as of January 22nd, 2020 07:00
- Crown totals are not adjusted as of now but at a suitable time later.
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【お知らせ（ゲームセンター）】太鼓の達人 グリーンVer.— 太鼓の達人 (@taiko_team) 20 dicembre 2019
2019/12/21（土）から、ナムコオリジナル「モノクロボイス／ｃｏｓＭｏ＠暴走Ｐ ｆｅａｔ．初音ミク・ＧＵＭＩ」が遊べるドーン♪おたのしみに!https://t.co/HUBnEcCyzW#taiko765
Compensating the future loss is the arrival of a brand new week-end warrior moment, for which cosMo@BouSouP pontificates from his AI Battle Performance unlockable song with yet another Miku/GUMI duet song for Taiko gaming. See you tomorrow for this one!
| Title | | | | | | |
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 | Monochrome Voice cosMo@BouSouP feat. Hatsune Miku, GUMI モノクロボイス／cosMo＠暴走P feat.初音ミク・GUMI | ★? | ★? | ★? | ★? |
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ドリカム 中村正人×よみぃ『太鼓の達人』特別対談 超難関曲「あなたとトゥラッタッタ♪」の秘密に迫る https://t.co/7fXyHlvbUU pic.twitter.com/Jx0znCvNhN— Real Sound（リアルサウンド） (@realsoundjp) 20 dicembre 2019
Completing today's trifecta is a nice interlude starring quite the actors: the recently-released J-Pop piece Anata to Tu-lat-tat-ta♪, its composer, Masato Nakamura (中村正人) from DREAMS COME TRUE and independent composer Yomii (よみぃ) of D's Adventure Note and Onigiri wa Doko Kashira fame. Bandai Namco has invited both artists for a public double interview that touched upon many topics that are dear to seasoned arcade players, from the making of Nakamura's Taiko-ported piece to the development of drumroll-based techniques, the most popular of which being the centerpiece of clearing the infamous 1-to-10 rating jump between Anata to Tu-lat-tat-ta♪'s two Oni modes.
We'll surely have the occasion to further expand upon this topic in the future, thanks to the interview being completely typed out and posted on Japanese news site Real Sound (link), but for the time being you can already see the 14-something-minutes session in question with the video below these very lines. We can even get to see Yomii flexing his Taiko drumming skills!
