The music gaming landscape is one who is more than often prone to open its gates in determined gaming series to those who succesfully have their works published due to those being contest-creation winners.
While this phenomenon in Taiko gaming doesn't happen that often (or, like in bemani grounds, with such recurring-artist-commissioning lengths), it sure rings true to select CreoFUGA winners double-dipping with original creations after their past feats. Meet one of them today!
Netemo Netemo (ネテモネテモ) ☆Shoji☆ feat. Honoka♡Erika| Version |  |  |  |  |
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| All | x3 (143) | x6 (245) | x6 (350) | x8 (550) |
Taiko 0 W, Taiko 3DS 3, Taiko +, CD CC-7
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ntmntmClosing another batch of featured song, here's the very last winner from the final CF contest we've had left to cover on our Saturday corner. In the same fashion as other former winners like Hiyokko Fantasy, we got ourselves one track whose final edit differs quite a bit from the original submission!
Netemo Netemo is composed by the nicknamed ☆Shoji☆ (☆しょーじ☆), one creator whose Internet presence has been... shrinking quite a bit in the past few years, so much so that all we can say about the artist is included in his own profile description on CreoFUGA, given how Shoji's Twitter account was deleted and his Youtube channel became completely empty. A singer-songwriter from Nagoya, Shoji dubs himself as 'a free music person' who follows whatever he likes, mostly creating commissioned songs as well as being the vocal lead of the 2-piece-band Nanasino Harmony (ナナシノライブラリー). Given how this act's Youtube page no longer exists, we can possibly assume it has been disbanded at some point in the past.
The composition drive behind Netemo Netemo came to Shoji while playing Taiko no Tatsujin himself, having a mental image of 'I want to keep this tempo!' in mind and molding it in song form for contest means, resulting in a track not only starring himself as the main vocalist, but also playing the overall composition under a different tonal key, all throughout the piece! The final version that is playable in Taiko gaming, of course, isn't the one starring Shoji as the singer, but instead a more-upbeat variant of it with a couple of voice actresses tight-roped into it: Honoka Inoue (井上ほの花) and Erika Kaiho (海保えりか), both with their history of vocal contributions to other CF artists as well as the common trait of landing their latest Namco Original pieces in the Nintendo Switch game.
The song was highly recepted from contest judge Kawamoto 'Kawagen Collagen' Yoshinori (川元義徳) for being fun to sing live and for its universal theme being easy-to-understand, so much so that it would have a really distinctive melody in the judge's ears even by "stripping the song naked" and only leaving the main melody and chords. Such feat was considered by Kawagen himself a hard one to handle (considering the 2015/2016 contest's tourney nature demanding more complex song-making skills in general), to the point that he himself was more than pleased to be its Taiko notecharter.
The most direct notechart comparison we can make is to your average 'old-school' Idolm@ster song's Oni mode, packed with close notes and to the brim under a 180+ BPM to show for it, managing to score the impressive hit ratio of 6.49 hits/second. This chart in particular also features some nasty clusters in the latter half that will require some quickfire hand-eye coordination to perform without errors, so be mindful of these, too!
Tabetemo Tabetemo (タベテモタベテモ) ☆Shoji☆ feat. Honoka♡Erika| Version | | | | |
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| All | x3 (138) | x6 (210) | x7 (355) | x8 (496) |
Taiko 0 G, Taiko Switch, CD CC-7 188 none tabetmWith Netemo Netemo singing the mindset of a sleepy person in such an active way, Shoji's first commissioned Namco Original work takes the same concept and applies it to the inner-workings of a gluttunous person! This console-first 'sequel piece' calls back the same singing duo of Honoka Inoue/Erika Kaiho from the original while also involving an additional artist for its overall arranging direction: Mamoru (マモル) from nhhmbase, the same artist behind the composition of other Namco Original tracks in the past, from Houkago☆Magician to Antonio.
Kawagen Collagen is also back as the charter for this quirky piece, an 8* Oni treat the same but flowing under a base 1/12 main tempo signature instead of the first song's regular 1/16 tempo. Think of it as the sibling to Off Rock (revival) and Knitting High's Oni charts, only with some nasty big notes spliced in-between note couples. Sure, double-input hits are not an issue for arcade goers since Nijiiro Version's scoring renewal, but it still is quite the pickle for Switch players trying to land the highest score possible!
