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Oct 03 2005
Taiko no Tatsujin Portable Review
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| Summary: Can you be a Japanese Drummer?
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Yet again another game that has flashy backgrounds, hype music, wierd things dancing and fun for all ages. Here it is for those who want a game to exercise your fingers or just to stay active while sitting on the bus. The purpose of this game is basically the same purpose any Dance Dance Revolution game has, you're just suppose to match colors.
Before even starting the game you can tell that this game is a kind of game that is going to be cute. Just by inserting it in your PSP and waiting for the intro will show you even more how this game is going to be cute. The intro starts off randomly with drums running and praying then dogs sweeping the floor and fireworks and everything.
After the title screen, it asks you to create a user account. After making one the game takes you to the main menu. Here there are seven different sections to choose from. The menus will be listed below:
• Single Player
• Mini Games
• Survival Mode - Choose amount of songs and play and play
• Practice
• Multiplayer - 2-4players,Connect to other players, Game Sharing, Stats/Record
• Misc. - User Accounts, History of Awards, Songs for Survival Mode, Intro video, Back
• Options - Sound, Save/Load, Controls, Back
After choosing Single Player, the player gets to choose a wide variety of songs from different difficulties. The first list/color is yellow/orange which is beginner level. Pressing the down button on the D-Pad it will bring you to a aqua/blue list of the same songs but with more stars which means more harder. Pressing down once again and you get green colored songs. These songs are the hardest have have a lot of stars per song.
Controlling is very basic. Every button is for red circles, Except the L and R-triggers which are for blue circles. The analog is to ring a bell. The controlls can be changed in the menu under Options shown above. When pressing a button that corresponds to Red, it will make a low toned thump. When pressing a button that corresponds to Blue, it will makie a higher pitched tink.
Sounds and songs are incredibly amazing. The song variety vaires from Jpop to Jrock to Techno to american songs aswell. Looking through the songs, "We Will Rock You" was found in the list. Just by looking through the list and highlighting a song you can preview the songs before actually playing them.
Graphics are as stated above, cute. Perfect for all ages. There is nothing in here that is 3D. Everything is 2D and basic programming needed. In the background colors change while you play. On the bottom are different animated Characters that dance. If you're doing well more characters will jump up and dance. There is a maximum of four dancing. After you've accomplished all four dancing and still doing well, a crowd of wierd characters will begin to jump up and down as you do continue to acheive a great score, mess up and your crowds and dancers will go away gradually.
The GamePlay is incredibly fun. The first thing you do is listen to the music. Of course the music will go with the circles. Listen to the beat and figure out the rythem in order to play successfully.
• There are two different colors, Red and Blue. When a Red circle appears you must press the buttons that will hit the red spots on the drum and vice versa for Blue circles. There is a Clear circle at the left of the screen, when a colored circle goes to that spot you press the button corresponding to it's circle color.
• The second shape is a Balloon type. It comes just like regular circles come except it has a little uninflated balloon attached to the end of it. Once this reaches the clear circle and you press the corresponding color, you then have to inflate the balloon by pressing buttons rapidly. Different balloons have different numbers you must blow to totally inflate it.
• The third shape is Bigger circles. All you have to do I press more buttons. For example, If there were to be a big Blue Circle, you would press the R-Trigger aswell as the L-Trigger to correctly hit this note.
• The last is a Traveling-Yellow type. It comes along as a yellow line and you must press any button rapidly to get as many points as your can during the line's duration.
Pros
• Cute and fun for all ages
• Never boring, keeps player addicted
• Ability to gain more songs
Cons
• No add-on for drums
• Only two colors therefore only needs two buttons
• "still looking for one more con"
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con #3: too much japanese to understand as an import, most of the other import games i've gotten have had at least a little english in them, but this one is pretty text dependant and its all in japanese 
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I have this game... I think it's great!
No... I canNOT read any Japanese.
I have completed the first two levels of this game and won the certificates.
I also recently download three new songs for it.
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and you're in Japan lol. Anyhow, this game looked fun in the arcade, was gonna get this until they kidna ran out of stock for redemtion from my ISP.
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Pros #4 2 ppl can play with same PSP 
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ridestowe said: "con #3: too much japanese to understand as an import, most of the other import games i've gotten have had at least a little english in them, but this one is pretty text dependant and its all in japanese "
that's basically your fault
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