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goonya (GO ON YA WAY)The latest gaming-related collaboration the Taiko no Tatsujin franchise has mustered is one from developer MUTAN's second game in the Goonya series, the second after November 2021's Goonya Fighter for PC/PS5/Nintendo Switch.
Released on December of the following years and also for the same gaming platforms, Goonya Monster (グーニャモンスター) marks a jump into a different genre from the former's 3D-fighter antics, as two factions duke it out for either the land's safety or a monster supremacy. The so-dubbed "Busters" have to eliminate enough mobs to reach a certain 'soul' threshold to purify an area, while the "monsters" have to command said mobs and directly work to kill off every Buster before said soul threshold is met. While at some point it was planned to reuse characters from Goonya Fighter for the project, the character art direction was ultimately led by Vocaloid-MV illustrator Terada Tera for a brand-new cast.
The external-contributor helping hand has extended further than it and the Taiko no Tatsujin late-2023 involvment, starting from the game's very own theme song! The Japanese pop duo of rapper TOPHAMHAT-KYO and composer/trackmaker DYES IWASAKI -known together as FAKE TYPE.- were the ones behind the title-calling GO ON YA WAY, with the nicknamed Chogakusei as its singer. The two composers even appear ingame as playable characters for the Monsters faction, nonetheless! Other collaborating parties for Goonya Monster's cause include a lot of different fields, from memory-device companies to fish-paste-related food companies. Even Vtuber cameos like All Guys and Alice have been welcomed for the game's avenue, last year!
While Goonya Monster's end of the collaboration brought a number of collaboration outfits and a mutual giveaway campaign for Goonya Monster merch, Taiko players have received the game's theme song on both arcade and (active) console fronts. Fast-scrolling hitballoons and giant notes aside, it's your average 150BPM-flowing song to drum on, with nothing but 1/16 charting until the very end. This is also one of the songs to have joined-big notes on KFM modes while played with another player at the same time, so if both joined notes are hit precisely, an higher max score ceiling than the regular 1P play can be hit, despite both charts functionally being the exact same if the 2-player gimmick is removed!
