This ending week marked the dual-3DS Taiko game rerelease in Asian countries for Nintendo Switch, one week ahead the rest of the world.
It's not the first time the greater Asian countries get dibs on advanced Taiko goodness... let alone exclusive playthings that not even Japan had the pleasure to toy with. Meet another of those today!
Gaibian Ziji (改變自己) Wang Leehom| Version |  |  |  |  |
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Taiko 11 Asian, 12 Asian
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a1wan1One of the few exclusive Variety licensesthat appears in both 2nd-gen, Greater Asia-exclusive versions of the 11th and 12th arcade Taiko cabinets is also one of many for those from the very same artist. It's quite the big name in the Chinese-American musical pop scene, too!
Born a son far from the family's home soil (second to a 3-children Taiwanese family household) on May 17th, 1976, Wang Leehom (王力宏) spent most of his life on American soil, with his older brother's passion for playing the violin being the spark of his interest in music. Despite his first label contracts and album releases in the late 90ies not bearing that much of a fruit on the fame persective, the third millennium's early years marked a rise in popularity in both his home land as well as overseas, not only nurturing quite the notable musical carreer -counting 25 albums and 60 million sales combined- but also a prestige position among other Chinese-American celebrities, with over 20 roles in movies from acting to voice acting (The Iron Giant and Ang Lee's Lust, among those), and a huge following on social media channels, totaling over 72 million followers combined. Wang Leehom even had the honor of perform torchbearing duties in two Olympic opening ceremonies in a row, Beijing '08 and London '12!
One of the wordly topics that are hold in high esteem from the multi-musical-genre artist has been world enviroment awareness, with one choice album release peaking such a will to sensibilize the larger Chinese audience on. Wang Leehom's 12th album, Gǎibìan Zìjǐ (lit. 'Change Me'), was released in Taiwan on July 13th, 2007 (and a week later in Thailand), with both its album-namer piece and the album in of itself crafted in such a way it would better convey the message in the song of every individual in the world has the power to act in the world in order of making a better place to live on. Each album's packaging used as little plastic as it could and all paper inserts were made out of 100%-recycled paper, with a short list of 10 things each listener could do in order to save the enviroment enclosed at the end of its booklet. Not only that, limited editions of the same album also included reusable tote bags on top of a set of Wang Leehom's personal set of reusable chopsticks as a means to support the healthier alternative of reusable goods usage instead of disposable shopper bags and
chopsticks found in markets and restaurants.
This enviroment-cautious tale finely translated into a low-flowing chart where the five-hit alternating Don/Kat clusters will be your main enemies to face. With little to no other clusters in the song, however, that's really about it on the difficulty side of things.
