Otaku Blue

Over the years there has been a lot of Taiko no Tatsujin games and I’ve seen them pop up on various occasions but never thought to buy one. Recently, i stumbled upon the upcoming DS game, Taiko no Tatsujin DS. Upon doing some research a realised that Taiko no Tatsujin games basically revolve around drumming. Similar to the Donkey Konga games but instead of using your hands you use actual drum sticks. How can a game like this work on DS? Well, packaged with Taiko no Tatsujin DS will be two funny looking stylus’. One red, one blue, and with them you must drum to various tunes on the touch screen. Since its a DS game and judging from screen shots I’ve seen, it will revolve around famous Nintendo tunes. The way you play seems to be simple drum beating and I’ve also heard of a new feature exclusive to the DS game that allows you to spin the drum with the stylus. One thing that is worrying me about this game is that, it will be virtually unplayble on the move. The fact that you need two stylus’ to play it makes it hard to play without having something to rest on which i can imagine will be very difficult if your in the car or on the train. Still, theres something about this game that seems very inviting to me and so it will definatley be a game i will be picking up this summer. It’s set to be released on the 26th of this month in Japan so you if you don’t live in Japan you can purchase it from play-asia.