Friday, March 14, 2025

[DF] March '25 Taiko Music Pass Update (2/2) and Crown Point System



The promised delivery for March's latter half has come, revealing two brand new Pops tunes (including the final Strawberry Prince console Taiko tie-in) as well as the lucky revival (for the time being, at least) of the Girls×Heroine tunes of arcade perma-deletion fame, now relocated to the Variety genre. For once, Donderful/Rhythm Festival players will also nab a console-port-first among modern music contests' Namco Originals that was not ported to any of the i-device/mobile games, too!

Taiko Music Pass New Tracks/Notecharts

Title
2025/03/20
Bunny Girl ★? ★? ★? ★?
Strawberry Prince Forever Strawberry Prince
  すとぷり
★? ★? ★? ★?
Fun!Fun!Fun! ~Yume Mugendai~ Bittomo×Heroine Kirameki Powers!
Fun!Fun!Fun! ~夢∞~/「ビッ友×戦士 キラメキパワーズ!」より
★2 ★3 ★5 ★6
Chuwapane! Secret×Heroine Phantomirage!
チュワパネ!/    「ひみつ×戦士 ファントミラージュ!」より
★1 ★1 ★3 ★5
Mirumiru ~Mirai Mieru~ Magical×Heroine Magimajo Pures!
ミルミル ~未来ミエル~/「魔法×戦士 マジマジョピュアーズ!」より
★1 ★2 ★4 ★5
Unlimited Games Ponchi♪ feat. Hachi
アンリミテッドゲームズ
/Ponchi♪ feat. はぁち
★5 ★7 ★7 ★10 ★10
Key: red = series debut; green = subscription/freemium debut


Together with the Music Pass reveals, yesterday also saw the implementation on all DF/RF versions of a crown-count-based feature, one that also got added on the game's official website.

From yesterday's update onward, every unique song clear on any mode that would award a crown of any kind for completion will also award players a variable amount of Crown Points, which in turn will unlock a series of customizable headgear for your Taiko avatar to bask in its glory! The scoring goes by 1 point for Silver crowns (=Normal Clear), 2 points for Gold ones (=Full Combo Clear) and 3 points for the Rainbow ones (=Donder-Full Combo Clear), with crown improvements on a specific song's difficulty performance awarding players the resulting rank difference in points. For those who are already seasoned Donderful/Rhythm Festival players (especially the Switch players), the system will retroactively add every Crown Point for every pre-existing achieved crown play after playing any song once, after the update's implementation... including crowns on the deleted songs from the Taiko Music Pass!

Actually, there's... something else to talk about for the day, but we'll see you after the jump for that course of action!

Welcome back! This is something we inadvertedly got alongside the latest Taiko Music Pass update, but as the source tweet from the official English Taiko no Tatsujin X account got removed, all we can regale you with is a cropped snapshot from the initial TMP update post, which alongside the other 6 songs has also included something more...


What you're looking at is tentatively the name for another WADIVE RECORD song, possibly slated for a future foray for the side label's project such an upcoming WADIVERSE chapter. For some reason, this got displayed alongside all the other regularly-scheduled update tracks and -just as quickly- its source post got removed earlier today. While it's an unfortunate way to reveal a new tune's coming on the series-makers' part, it's nice nonetheless to see the side-label project having legs to stretch into 2025 as well!