Taiko no Tatsujin for the US

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Namco is releasing Taiko no Tatsujin for the US, which will be called Taiko Drum Master. The interface and game play seems to be the same as the Japanese version, and includes songs such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, and the Soul Calibur II main theme.
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DizzyBum · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Location: Monroe, CT

Awesome. We need more music games that aren't just dance-related.

Right, Konami?
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PenguinMan · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA

Whoa, I did not see this coming. Now I have two drum-type rhythm games to get.

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Spike · Administrator Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Denver

Will this be in the arcade or for home with some fancy controller?
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CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

I'm pretty sure it's a PS2 game.

Noobus Kahn · Trick Member Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Location: CA

I've never heard of this game before, is it like Drummania?

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[TeamSubClub]SuperFred 2k · Trick Member Joined: 23 Dec 2002 Location: RI

I've only played TnT on PS2 so I don't know for sure but the PS2 controller is just a round drum with two sensors on the front (left and right, no visible line just split in two halves), and two sensors on the upper corners.

Arcade is totally different, it's got two huge drums and looks effing awesome. Tell me J Dogg, did they cut ot the uber-cute voices they used in the japanese ps2 version to replace them with american voices? And is there still the two characters I loved so much?
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sherl0k · Maniac Member Joined: 27 Jan 2002 Location: the internet

What 2 characters are you talking about? Because there were some characters in the demo, I just didn't know what to refer to them as.

The game plays just like its Japanese CS counterpart, by the way.
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Rabby250 · Basic Member Joined: 16 Mar 2002

Dong and Katsu - the drum bros., I suppose?

For those who never heard of the game:
Introducing the in-game screen!

Top-left: Life Bar. Starts with zero.
Mid-left: Beat Zone = Step Zone.
Bottom-left: Notes.
Top-right: Norma (Normal) Indicator. A course will be cleared if the player's life level is above the indicator, or failed otherwise.
Norma Indicator's position may vary according to the difficulty chosen.
Mid-right: Score.
Bottom-right: Song Name and Course. Will be shown alternatively.

About the notes:
Red: A hit on the middle of the drum required.
Blue: A hit on the side of the drum required.
Yellow: Continuous hit on either the middle or the side.
No life will be taken for missing yellow notes, but how many times hit will affect score.
Giant Red/Blue/Yellow: Same as their mini (?) cousins, but requires more powerful hits.
Balloon: Indicates a number , and requires that much hits on the middle before the next note comes up.
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Larrikin · Contributor Joined: 17 Feb 2002 Location: Illadelphia

Ive got mixed feelings about this. Its cool that a new music game is coming to America, but in the short time I played it in the arcades I was already up to some of the hardest songs so its really easy and im not sure if i wanna spend money for it at home.

EDIT: Also I find it odd theres no mention of Donkey Konga. It has Sing Sing Sing, which is easily one of the best drum songs you could have,
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KitsuDeXstrosity · Trick Member Joined: 15 May 2004 Location: San Diego, CA

Hi, I'm new to the DDR Freak boards.

Anyway, I was following TnT for a long time (albeit I never really played it before, always wanted to) and I'm really excited about the US release. One thing kind of bugs me though, this game is heavily based on Japanese culture and tradition. For sure I'm going to enjoy it, but I'm not completely sure about the popularity in the US. Hopefully it does well and we get as many sequels as the Japanese counterpart.

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Junior Asparagus · Administrator Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Natick, MA

Aside from the songlist, everything (the graphics, etc.) is EXACTLY like the Japanese versions. It has the little drum dudes and everything. It was really loud though, so I couldn't tell if the cute sounds were the same. I would assume so.
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skie · Vivid Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: olr studios

I think the E3 demo might have been a very early build of the game, as there was still a lot of japanese text in the actual in-game mode. In fact, it felt no different at all to me than the TnT games I've played on import PS2, with the exception of the song select screen, which was totally different than any TnT game I've played... you switched to seperate screens to scroll through the list... there wasn't one screen with 5 boxes that scrolled or anything like that. Most likely because there were only a few songs in the demo.

Ya know, I could see a possibility that a lot of the game could stay in it's original form to add to the "culture" of the game as referenced in an earliler post.

I'm just glad Namco is willing to take a chance on it

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red shoe paul · Vivid Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Location: Location:

i'm really excited on the the TNT coming to america. i have the 2nd taiko for ps2 and i love it. will the same drum be used to play? will it be different? hurry hurry more news!
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kupo4649 · Basic Member Joined: 19 Jun 2004

is the ps2 drum anywhere near as good as the arcade machine's drum? I can't find any in arcades and i've been addicted since I visited japan! Must have Tnt fix.....