Taiko no Tatsujin Wii - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Taiko no Tatsujin Wii is a rhythm

Music video game

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...

video game developed and published by Namco Bandai

Namco Bandai Games

is an arcade, mobile and home video game developer and publisher based in Japan which is the product of a merger between the video game development divisions of Bandai and Namco. Namco Bandai Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings and specializes in production and sales of...

for the Wii

Wii

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console in 2008, and it was released only in Japan

Japan

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. Like other Taiko
Taiko no Tatsujin
is a series of rhythm games created by Namco. The series has seen releases for the arcade, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, iOS, Advanced Pico Beena, and mobile phones....

games, the player plays the notes of a chosen song's drum part as they are displayed on the screen. The taiko drums can be played using the TaTaCon, the Wii Remote

Wii Remote

The , also known as the Wiimote, is the primary controller for Nintendo's Wii console. A main feature of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via gesture recognition and pointing through the use of accelerometer and...

and/or the Classic Controller

Classic Controller

The is a video game controller produced by Nintendo. It is used to play games on the Nintendo Wii video game console.-Classic Controller:The Classic Controller is plugged into the Wii Remote in order to be used. It features two analog sticks, a D-pad, face buttons labeled "a", "b", "x" and "y",...

. This was also known to be the first Taiko game to ever have lyrics that are seen in songs with vocals.

The Wii version includes extra game settings that uses the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

predecessor, including test configuration, note timing, controller button setups, sound settings, and data settings.

Gameplay

Symbols moving horizontally along a timeline show the player what to hit and when. Blue symbols indicate that the drum should be hit on the rim. Red symbols indicate that the face of the drum should be hit. The drum can be hit on the left and/or right side. The symbols can be either large or small. Large symbols indicate that the drum should be struck on both sides simultaneously , and small symbols indicate that the drum should be hit on either side. A large blue symbol thus means that the left and right rim should be hit at the same time. A yellow note thus means that a drum roll must be hit on either part of the drum. The balloon note and yam note indicates that the drum can only be hit on the face rapidly until the hit count reaches 0.

The Wii version also introduces the giant note which indicates that the player must also hit on both sides of the face of the drum simultaneously, and will make the song more harder.

Subtitles under the symbols give the pronunciation of the sounds (for example, "do don do don") using a traditional system called kuchi shoga

Kuchi shoga

Kuchi shōga , also known as 'kuchi showa' and 'kuchi shoka', is a Japanese phonetic system for 'pronouncing' the sounds of drums, especially Japanese drums ....

(口唱歌).

While its appearance may seem cute, it is actually quite difficult: the player needs to accomplish at least 65% of the drum chart to pass, and the harder levels (hard and Oni mode) and modifiers (eg: hidden mode) will require much skill and chart recognization.

Successful play builds up a life meter, and if the meter is past a certain point by the end of the song, the song is passed.

Other modes

Taiko no Tatsujin Wii introduces a new training dojo mode that unlocks more challenges as players progress throughout this mode.
Oni is unlocked after clearing 30 songs on Hard (Musukashii).

Songs

Songs with a (U) next to them indicate that the songs will need to be unlocked (As seen below).

Category	Song	Artist	TV Show/Game/Album
J-POP		Shuchishin Shuchishin is a Japanese idol vocal group formed as part of the variety show Quiz! Hexagon II produced by Fuji Television Network Incorporated. Originally meant to be a joke group, the trio has released singles that have hit the top 10 on both the Oricon and the Billboard Japan Hot 100 Singles...	We Love Hexagon
		Greeeen GReeeeN is a Japanese pop/rock/hip hop/breakbeat vocal group from Kōriyama city in Fukushima Prefecture, comprising the all-male four members Hide, Navi, 92, and Soh. They made their debut with Universal Music in 2007. Their logo image is of a mouthful of teeth, and the four Es indicate the number of members...	ROOKIES
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		Jero Jero Jerome Charles White, Jr. , better known by his stage name , is an enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent. He is the first black enka singer in Japanese music history.- Biography :...
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		Milky Way	Kirarin Revolution Kirarin Revolution is a Japanese shōjo manga by An Nakahara. The series' title is the supposed name of Kirari's debut single. As of August 2007, it runs in the shōjo magazine Ciao published by Shogakukan...
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| Linda AI-CUE / Takahashi
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| Linda AI-CUE / Yuri Misumi
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| Soroban2000 (十露盤2000)
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| Tenjiku 2000 (てんぢく2000)
| Linda AI-CUE / Gengishine
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| Linda AI-CUE / MC Linn
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| X-DAY 2000 (U)
| Linda AI-CUE
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| The Carnivorous Carnival (U)
| Akitaka Tohyama
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| Akitaka Tohyama
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| Cai Fong Le Fang
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| Masabuchi Yuuji
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| Linda AI-CUE / Yano Yoshihito
| Mekadon's Theme Song
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| Yasugawa Shogo
| Donko's Theme Song
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Gameplay

Other modes

Songs

See also