Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Random: Rainbow Taiko
Look at all the colors of the notes! Well, this is just an old arcade Taiko with a half-broken CRT screen. I'm sure a lot of players will have seen this at least once, especially if you're in Malaysia. Try to figure out whether they're don or kat before they reach the left part of the screen.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Taiko no Tatsujin Mcdonalds Happy Meal toys (2012)
This is cool. Someone actually made videos of the Happy Meal toys that are being given out at McDonalds in Japan right now. Although at first glance they seem to be a slideshow of pictures, they're more than just that; keep watching!
Below is the Don-chan card holder.
And this below is the card holder together with two other toys, the Denden and the square Bachi o Sensei that makes noises.
Lastly, here's the PV for the toys, showing kids playing with the toys as if they were using them as instruments to play Taiko no Tatsujin!
Oh, and as an extra note: there's not one password, but since three toys were released, there are three passwords for Taiko 3DS, and with them, three new Taiko sounds! Who knows, maybe we'll see another set of three when the other toys come out!
The passwords will be published on our blog as soon as possible.
Below is the Don-chan card holder.
And this below is the card holder together with two other toys, the Denden and the square Bachi o Sensei that makes noises.
Lastly, here's the PV for the toys, showing kids playing with the toys as if they were using them as instruments to play Taiko no Tatsujin!
Oh, and as an extra note: there's not one password, but since three toys were released, there are three passwords for Taiko 3DS, and with them, three new Taiko sounds! Who knows, maybe we'll see another set of three when the other toys come out!
The passwords will be published on our blog as soon as possible.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Song of the Week! 3 November 2012
Of all the new songs on Taiko 3DS, it also revived one of the oldest Taiko no Tatsujin original songs ever made. Let's dust it off and see what it is.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Taiko 0.5: First video of junction and other changes
Well that was fast. Two days after the new set of Don Challenge goals came up, players have already unlocked junction, the new Namco Original song (naturally Hello! Halloween from last month is now open to all players). It's a 9* Oni (difficulty set 4/5/6/9) with jazzy vibes similar to Sports Digestdon and very complex rhythm. Namco weren't kidding about its difficulty! 604 notes in total.
Other changes made on November 2 with the new firmware update:
- Burger costume made available in conjunction with Happy Meal promotion
- New titles added, pertaining to the Tamagotchi songs and the unlocking of the three songs below
- dance storm and Lightning Passion, the character theme songs for Fuuga and Mirai (Taiko Wii 4) are unlockable. Both their regular Onis have been downed to 7*, though their Ura Onis remain at 9*.
- For dance storm, full combo Rotter Tarmination using the P1 drum, for Lightning Passion, full combo Samba Alegria on the 2P drum
- Kaze no Fantasy is also unlockable, and downed from 9* Oni to 8*
- To unlock it, full combo Angel Dream while wearing the 'Hero' costume
Namco Taiko Blog (2 November 2012)- McDonalds collab detailed
We saw in the official blog post last week that from today onwards, Taiko no Tatsujin and McDonalds will be collaborating again by giving out toys through Happy Meals. But that's not the half of it; there's loads more things in this collaboration this time!
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Namco Taiko Blog (1 November 2012)- CreoFUGA interviews part 3
The third lot of CreoFUGA user-created songs were made downloadable on Taiko PSP DX from October 25th, 2012 onwards and Namco interviewed the 5th and 6th winners today!
The two people here today are Harunaba, the creator of Hanaoto Urahyoushi, and Ryuwitty, who made Kaze no Kuni no Ryu to Kishi. Both creators feel extremely happy and proud that their creations can be played by everyone on Taiko no Tatsujin.
Harunaba's song...Hanaoto is a Japanese-style song, composed with Taiko no Tatsujin in mind and tries to evoke the beauty of old Japan. Ryuwitty has an 'ethnic, exotic' image in mind when he made his song, and as mentioned before, during the contest the title of the song was completely different (昔むかし、遠き国の王様は) and he wanted lyrics for it. Later he deleted the lyrics.
Both composers found syncing the music for use in a rhythm game to be quite difficult. Getting the rhythm right is definitely a hard thing to do!
Harunaba listens to lots of music, but two bands in particular (Spitz, a J-Pop group and Meshuggah, a Swedish death metal group) stand out. Ryuwitty is a fan of classical music, especially Ravel and Debussy. You can follow both on Twitter, where they talk about daily life, food and music. The last paragraph is their message to Taiko players, to have lots of fun playing their songs.
There was another contest for composing GUMI songs on CreoFUGA, and both of these two have also won that contest, making for a double-sweep! Epic stuff! It's an even greater achievement when you consider than only four finalists were picked from there, as compared to eight here.
Now, for the last two winners! Hope we get to see their songs soon!
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The two people here today are Harunaba, the creator of Hanaoto Urahyoushi, and Ryuwitty, who made Kaze no Kuni no Ryu to Kishi. Both creators feel extremely happy and proud that their creations can be played by everyone on Taiko no Tatsujin.
Harunaba's song...Hanaoto is a Japanese-style song, composed with Taiko no Tatsujin in mind and tries to evoke the beauty of old Japan. Ryuwitty has an 'ethnic, exotic' image in mind when he made his song, and as mentioned before, during the contest the title of the song was completely different (昔むかし、遠き国の王様は) and he wanted lyrics for it. Later he deleted the lyrics.
Both composers found syncing the music for use in a rhythm game to be quite difficult. Getting the rhythm right is definitely a hard thing to do!
Harunaba listens to lots of music, but two bands in particular (Spitz, a J-Pop group and Meshuggah, a Swedish death metal group) stand out. Ryuwitty is a fan of classical music, especially Ravel and Debussy. You can follow both on Twitter, where they talk about daily life, food and music. The last paragraph is their message to Taiko players, to have lots of fun playing their songs.
There was another contest for composing GUMI songs on CreoFUGA, and both of these two have also won that contest, making for a double-sweep! Epic stuff! It's an even greater achievement when you consider than only four finalists were picked from there, as compared to eight here.
Now, for the last two winners! Hope we get to see their songs soon!
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