After last week's break from the usual Saturday schedule, we're sure to end the year on a blast with this one!
≠MM| Game | Genre |
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| Taiko PsVita Taiko PS4 (DLC) AC Green |
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★5 (258) |
★7 (344) |
★8 (704) |
★10 (1290) |
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92-252
vt1b2f / vtib2x (Vita1 Boss 2 Final; unique -x ID for the Boss Fight association)Years come and go, Taiko no Tatsujin console games eventually keep to be released with enticing Story setting to do, Linda AI-CUE keeps making devilish 2000-branded original songs... but arguably NOTHING to this day from both camps can hold a candle on the difficulty spectrum with ≠MM, a song from the iconic composer to end all other Story boss songs. It was heavily argued whether or not to make one of the '2000' songs make its debut in such a way with Taiko no Tatsujin V Version but ultimately such an idea idea was declined, which is why the game's proper song in the series, Norudon 2000, is more lighthearted in lieu of some whe earlier entries, while making sure that his final-boss track wasn't mistaken to be part of such a series with is very title. With the 'Not Equal' symbol in full display and the Latin Numeral way of spelling out 2000 (with each M standing for 1000), it's no wonder why most Taiko fans read the song title as 'Not 2000'!
This is the second of the Final Boss tracks to face in the Ps Vita entry's quest-based title, in which Don-Chan and the purple-clad knight Maple finally find her long-lost sister Violia, only to discover that she's been possessed by the monster-generating Ancient Dragon Revolution this entire time, just to try keeping its fiends-procreating powers on check. Knocking some sense on her after one fight, however, was enough for the primal beast to take over her own body to power itself up, resulting in a struggle of control that the same ≠MM reflects in its bits of morse code messaging, played in the Kat-dominant charting stanzas of its Oni mode. Given the intention, it's kind of a shame some of it went into typo territory... Much like the freshly-launched Taiko no 2000, English-worded sentences are handed out as a means to convey Olivia's struggle to reclaim her own self: 'I can no longer make up with you.' and 'I aever accept you !!', with a slight typo on the second for 'never'.
Thanks to one of the soundtrack albums in the 8-fold City Connection cycle, we also know that a couple of returning BNSI talents were also involved in the vocals for the song: the Idolm@ster-versed Shoko -who already was the vocalist for Joubutsu 2000- and Aru☆Majirou (ある☆まじろう), alias for Bandai Namco programmer Ryoichi Kaku (加来量一) who lent his voice in past Taiko lineage for Dorabot (ドラボット) from the second DS game's Dokon Gang and a number of other Linda AI-CUE-powered tracks in Taiko, from Tatakae! T3 Booei-Tai to the Touhou Project in-house arrange Eikyouku/Gyouan. Handling the track-down process was Masanobu Murakami (村上正信) of many a Namco Original's refining process while its devilish charts -like many others originating from V Version- were handled by Matsumoto (マツモト).
You can say how other songs in Taiko no Tatsujin history to date have brought up some of Oni ≠MM's more technical perks on the scrolling speed/tempo change department in more brutal combinations and sometimes, but there's no escaping it- the latter half's commonpace 252 BPM and its erratic 1/16 cluster procession WILL kill most of its players not being able to keep it up due to the high note count's adjusted lower Soul Gauge gain ratio, regardless of how well the slower-flowing half is performed. Being one of Green Version's surprise final Ranking Dojo main course's hidden songs is also kind to be expected, isn't it?
