Taiko PSP DX's IDs, take 9

Another couple of old songs are going to be featured in future PSP DX download packs! This time it's the J-Pop classic TRAIN-TRAIN (ID: train) and Crane City (ID: neko2) by Mika Sato, an old song seen on very few places.

Kayou ~Flourishing Blossoms~ first video

In all the excitement surrounding the recent announcement of Taiko no Tatsujin for the 3DS, let's not forget its older PSP cousin! The April 2012 DLC pack is also released today, featuring the new Kikyoku song, Kayou ~Flourishing Blossoms~, from the 2011 Full Combo soundtrack album.

A heavy 7* notechart similar to Chikuzei, with 453 notes on Oni.

Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb song list

This episode of Taiko no Tatsujin is the first game released for the Nintendo 3DS, the successor to Nintendo's dual-screen handheld, and is the tenth and final surprise announced for the Taiko 10th anniversary. A digital version for the game has been released on the Nintendo eShop two years after its release, on September 4th, 2014.

Translated, the title is 'Taiko no Tatsujin: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orbs'. It features another fully-fleshed out Story mode, which seems to have become a staple for console Taiko games. This story involves Don-chan being warped to a different world again, this time tasked with retrieving a princess' lost voice, which has been split into seven orbs, together with a dragon partner, hence the title.

The interface used is the same one on the revamped HD arcade cabinet Taiko no Tatsujin 0, and is the first  console Taiko to use it, together with Don-chan's slightly tweaked design, and accurate right down to the changed difficulty, to the scoring methods, to the Taiko 0 style results screen. The bachi-pen given with the game is of a slightly different design from the DS Taiko games, no longer using stickers but solid models of Don-chan and Kat-chan mounted on top.

The menu items and gameplay features are changed from the DS series of Taiko games. All the unlockables are combined into a single achievement list, called a stamp sheet. The Everyday Dojo, Don-chan's room and the mailbox have been axed, and so is the ability to change Don-chan's body colors. Instead, you are able to choose between the four drum characters introduced in Taiko Wii 3 (Don-chan, Kat-chan, Calcutta and Yomogimaru), and the costumes for each of them are differently colored. A large variety of Taiko Sounds are still available, and more can be unlocked through a secret password system similar to Taiko DS3.

Taiko 3DS is the first DS series Taiko no Tatsujin to have Ura modes, and also has the random modifiers Kimagure and Detarame as well as the ability to combine modifiers in one play, introduced on PSP DX. As with other first Taiko games on their respective consoles, Taiko 3DS's songlist consists of a mixture of fan favorites with new songs on a compact songlist, with the main selling point still being the Story Mode.



Full costume list
Treasure list
Boss battles
Story scripts
Stamp album and rank
Password mode

~  Theme song ~  
Kimi to Hibiku Harmony (キミと響くハーモニー)

No. of songs	46 (total 55)
No. of secret songs	9
No. of songs with Ura	5

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Namco Taiko Blog (12 April 2012)- The final gift

And the curtains fold back on the conclusion of the Taiko 10th anniversary celebrations. Namco's final gift for this year is revealed!

Random: 5 songs for 1 coin?

Alright, we're one day away from the big announcement, and I know you're all waiting to see what it is (the rumor going around is a 3DS version Taiko no Tatsujin) but just as a filler article today, the cheapest, most affordable arcade Taiko in the world?


...not. If only the arcade costs 5 songs for 1 coin, but too bad, the maximum setting on the menu screen is 4 songs for 1 coin. Realizing their epic mistake a little too late, the arcade adds a 'minus one' to the bottom of the giant 5. Talk about false advertising!

Namco Taiko Blog (10 April 2012)- Taiko 0 software update

Namco has been hard at work....barely a month after version 2.03 for Taiko no Tatsujin 0 had been released, they go and up it all the way to 3.13!

SMOKY THRILL lyrics

Artist: Misumi Yuri (みすみゆり)