In a couple of days, the latest Taiko no Tatsujin music recruitment contest will open its gates for contestants' input. Shall we greet it with another contest-prepped tune from the (near) past?
CHAOTiC BATTLE
YOFUKASHi Sound Team from "Cosmic Radio 2025"
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Nijiiro (Y6) |  | ★4 212 | ★6 444 | ★7 718 | ★10 1053 | - |
145-175
musecb (Muse Dash - CHAOTiC BATTLE)Between the earlier competitions hosted on CreoFUGA and the ongoing Nijiiro-era ones, we're no strangers to seeing an artist/ensemble scoring a win in consecutive contest editions. You'll quickly see how big of a deal is, then, when the PeroPero Games-hosted Cosmic Radio contest line has seen these past two editions with the very same ensemble on top as the Grand Winners... with both picks being Taiko-adopted, no less!
Indeed, the people behind the 2025 edition's winner CHAOTiC BATTLE also happens to be the exact same jolly fray under the YOFUKASHi Sound Team banner that brought us the 2024 edition's winner LUNATiC CiRCUiT, same title-lettering format and all. Being the winner of a contest line held by the company behind the ongoing mobile rhythm game Muse Dash, a playable cut of the song (the same one featured on Nijiiro Version) was made available for said game (link) and also promised to come from PeroPero Games' then-unknown new game to release on Christmas day this year, later to be revealed as a direct sequel to Muse Dash. Speaking of 'direct', the Taiko Team has set a playful homage for the YOFUKASHi Sound Team's latest contest-winning endeavor with the Oni Full-Combo unlockable title 'CHAOTiC DiRECT', due to the song's teaser shared on SNS following the graphical layout of the Nintendo Direct presentations on the company's upcoming titles (link) and the very song in question's official MV, styled after an audio playback from one of Nintendo's dual-screen systems' audio applications.
After the latest years' top-dog Oni trend of steeling the playerbase with fiendishly-hazardous BPM medians, here's a technical channel veering towards the 2nd-gen charting ways of the Taiko 7-14 days, with compound clusters and spliced-in small clusters as far as the eye can see. One big advice for tackling the song is to get ready to hit at a faster ratio once the BPM starts to shift higher while the note density stays as packed- you won't believe how many errors a subtle shift with tons of notes underneath can warrant. After the rough chaos of yestermonth, it may even make the fast-scrolling giant notes spicing action like yesterday's news, by comparison!
