In today's 11th-hour Song of the Week raid, you'll get to learn that -even before this ending week- Taiko gaming is no stranger of giving pirate-themed content an harder-difficulty update treatment down the road! Too bad this also kinda sounds the samey from the original...
Oresama Pirates
オレサマパイレーツ
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w3at22 (Wii 3 Attraction Song no.2-2)Many years before one of the most popular Gen2 Anime licenses in One Piece's We Are! managed to got a difficulty-scale-capping Ura Oni to wink at both Taiko Time (Ura) and Karma (Tatsujin Mix) at the same time, there also was another pirate treatment to receive a peculiar difficulty update of sorts -a Namco Original tune at that, too!- receiving something different than an upgraded chart set. Oresama Pirates is a sequel to the Wii-exclusive Namco Original Ikasama Pirates we already talked about in the past, much in the same tone as a shadow is in relation to the living being/object it originates form... meaning they're basically the same thing, albeit in a slightly distorted form than the original!
As plans for an upgraded chart set for the original song were made in a time where full KFMO Ura chart sets were walking the way of the dinosaur in console Taiko entries, it was most likely opted to slightly arrange the original song to accomodate them in their unique slot instead, with Taiko Team alumni Yuji Masubuchi (増渕裕二) taking Ogami Masako (大上昌子)'s original song from Minna de Party Sandaime and lowering of an octave or so the sonority of the entire track and calling it a similar name. Thus, the pirate-branded song eventually managed to live an arcade life of its own and even star in its debut game as one of its Story mode boss fights; whether on the original 3DS title or in the Nintendo Switch's Rhythmic Adventure 1, the Great Pirate Andrea won't spare any of his crew (and anchors, no less!) to put a stop on your journey by the notes of this slightly-arranged tune!
What lies ahead this revised song's Oni notechart is a rookie-friendly primer to mid-speed chart playing a-la Metal Hawk BGM1, where the average-blowing 1/16 charting warrants many a space where note clusters are compacted into small bursts of quick 1/24-cluster hits to deliver, just as hit-dense as the commonplace 1/16 patterns that are sported in high-star demons like Kita Saitama 2000! A bit of smart handswitching is also required towards the end, although not as intricate as similar oni charts of a timilar timing window, like Le Tombeau de Couperin from the Classic genre.
