Wrapping Up: Yuugen no Ran and Huis Ten Bosch

And the Donder that DFCed Yuugen no Ran from yesterday's tweet posted a video of his DFC play. Again 'nuff said, except to marvel at the excellent motor-like hand at work. How much longer after will we have the next exciting first DFC (Donkama I am looking at you)?

 

Group photos reposted from Huis Ten Bosch's official photo set on Facebook

Also as last night's Huis Ten Bosch Cup tournament with the 3D Projection Mapping Taiko no Tatsujin also wraps up, Huis Ten Bosch has released a photo set on Facebook, showing key moments of the event. Check them out!

Song of the Week! 10 January 2015

Today's feature has a special spin into it, as our blog has reached another important milestone: since we put the Visitor Counter add-on, this blog has been visited over a million times!

As a result, here's a Namco Original song that became infamous in recent times for a certain grinding task... possibly taking as long as reaching our first million-view goal!

[Breaking] Twitter Snippets (January 10 2015) - Yuugen no Ran, Donderful-Combo-ed

幽玄ノ乱 全良！！！！！！！！！！！ マジで頑張りました！ pic.twitter.com/edfAWLvZkp
— しゅがらぎ (@nise0616) January 10, 2015

'Nuff said, really. Though it's kinda nice it is achieved on the first (theoretical) day that Asian ver. Donders get to play Yuugen no Ran.

Across Japan: January Facebook Tournament

As with the rest of the Taiko Team crew, the Asian ver. Facebook page is also back and running! The first news of the year is the songs for January's Monthly Facebook Tournament: the AJURIKA duo Evidence of evil Oni (10★) and The Carnivorous Carnival Muzukashii (7★).

As it should have been obvious, Evidence of evil is already opened to Asian ver. players on January 1. And for the purposes of this tournament, The Carnivorous Carnival will be available free of unlocking (which is Full Combo-ing Taiko Time Ura Oni or any diff of Densetsu no Matsuri with Detarame on by the way) during the January 10~18 competing times.

Here's the January schedule again:

• Song candidates Announcement: January 7 (this!)
• Tourney Commences: January 10~18
• Results Announcement: January 21

And while we're at it, let's also check out the February schedule, which is pushed a bit later into the month than before:

• Song candidates Announcement: February 11
• Tourney Commences: February 14~22
• Results Announcement: February 25

By the way, the Team is thinking of songs along the theme of the Chinese New Year. If you have suggestions, you know where to put them! (hint: not here)

And don't you worry about last year-end's Donder Festival in Asia tournament: The results will be in soon. Stay tuned!

Namco Taiko Blog (8 January 2014) - Taiko Tournaments in Early 2015

In line with the last few years, to have some slow news features upon a new year's beginning is a surely-expected trend for gaming by this time, and Taiko games are no exception. Today, for example, Etou's Taiko Blog entry is about the two 'minor' Winter tournaments for Taiko arcades: the Huis Ten Bosch Cup and the elementary school-oriented World Hobby Fair '15 tourney.

Since we already mentioned the former before in our blog, now we're having a quick look to the latter's pre-finals schedule. As stated in the past, there will be five mini-tourneys in four local fairs for the youngest Taiko players, in order to pick the contenders for the Grand Champion prize at the WHF later this February. The tourneys are set in Nagoya (Jan. 18th), Tokyo (Jan. 24th/25th), Fukuoka (Feb. 1st) and Osaka (Feb. 8th) under the Bandai Namco stand, where either Etou or Takemoto will be the main host for the event. Stop by and say hello to these Taiko Team personalities if you happen to visit these stands in the next weeks!

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Made By You: DRAGON KILLER and more

After a long hiatus, the Made By You segment makes its grand return! Made By You will now be coming at you every two weeks, every Wednesday. This week, we'll be looking at another 3 maps.



From Sayaka-, previously known as dialgadu77, we have a hard rock song from bemani game REFLEC BEAT limelight. 96 and Mutsuhiko Izumi, two of the most prominent guitar artists from bemani's in-house stable of artists, team up to give this difficult rock song.

The chart's no slouch, making full use of the frantic percussion to give a nice 10* rock drum chart.



crystalsuicune provides another nice traditional-esque bemani song, with a chart reminiscent of the Kikyoku series. This song originates from beatmania IIDX, and has a chart comprising of simple clusters and makes for a good chart to practice.



A unique chart, as it's 10 minutes long! This song is a remix of the song 'goldenslaughterer' from visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, and provides for a long marathon chart. Will your endurance hold up for the whole song?

Random: Super-Blind Play

You've probably seen a Taiko blindfold play before, where a player puts on a blindfold and attempts to play Taiko using only the music as cues. A test of memorization. But this particular blind play will blow your mind.

In here, the player isn't wearing any blindfold; the SCREEN OF THE ARCADE CABINET IS BROKEN. Everything else, including Banapass network services, work as intended, and the players in the video work out menu navigation through the speaker at the center (hence why the player is seen to be leaning to the center most of the time). Thank god for Don-chan's helpful vocal cues!

Three songs were played. Kita Saitama 2000, Hurtling Boys and Music Revolver (Ura). The last song was an FC. Super skills!

Thanks to Jia Yi from Taiko no Tatsujin Malaysia for the find!