Saturday, July 2, 2022

[NS2] - Donderful Postcards from Anime Expo '22

 

This ending week has had a surprise news delivery pertaining the next console Taiko entry and it's quite a first-time situation for us to scout, considering that the news on display are actually coming from an official English-speaking source!

Credits to Nedmara and mariochua from the Taiko no Tatsujin Discord server for the screenshots on display/linked for the following post.
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Rather than gazing at the Land of the Rising Sun, a few hours ago a monitor is all it takes to take a look at the Bandai Namco livestream presence for the ongoing Anime Expo convention. Base-game details that were already covered aside, what we got out of this is a confirmation on which of the available songs in the starting song list are going to have the infamous Ura Oni treatment since the very beginning.

I wager that no introductions are needed for the following beneficiary...



Debuting for the first Switch game as a piece of DLC, MEGALOVANIA has been selected to play and unveiled to have a top-starred Ura Oni to reach greater heights!

In addition to that, the entire launch track list was browsed via menu navigation, unveiling another quintet of songs as newly-fangled Ura Oni bearers for home players thanks to the Ura Oni icon tell that is displayed as part of the respective High-Score plates that appear at the bottom-right corner of the Song Selection menu. We don't know the ratings for these, but at least we know they have them! Below is a screen confirming the Vocaloid newcomer villain to have an Ura Oni setting:



The other five songs are the following, complete with links to the affected screenshots:
If you want to see the whole corner for yourself, the broadcast has also been uploaded to the Bandai Namco US Twitch channel, whose link is also right below these lines. If you missed it going live and happen to be one of those V-tuber fans, let's just say that you got another reason to tune in for yourself!

Source (Bandai Namco US Twitch account)