First look: Taiko no Tatsujin Wii

by David Hinkle on Dec 12th 2008 7:15PM

Taiko no Tatsujin Wii just released in Japan and, as you can imagine, we're incredibly jealous. We fell in love with the series back when Taiko Drum Master released on the PS2. Basically, every installment we see looks great, including the latest DS incarnations.

Thankfully, Josh from Wii Folder has snagged a copy and composed a video for those of us that don't live in the awesome country of Japan. Head past the break to check it out.

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Tags: namco, taiko, taiko-drum-master, taiko-no-tatsujin

Reader Comments (8)

Josh is the best ^.^

Don't worry he'll be covering Tatsunoko VS Capcom soon enough, but that is a popular game among import crowds so it'll probably be last. He should be covering Let's Tap sometime soon, it's not out yet...

He may be the best, but he sure suck at Taiko...

How import friendly is this? (more like how many kanji they use, because I can read kana) Because I doubt is going to be localized, and I still would like to have my anime and game songs instead of what they could put instead of them in a localized version.

And this is with a pair of drums right? or it can be played only with a controller?

a PS2 version of this game has made it to American shores before.

Just got my copy, comes with a drum. You can also play it with controllers. Wiimote and classic (havent tried gamecube). It is pretty straight forward. There are practice levels and then theres the song select menu and thats basically it. You'll be fine with basic katakana/hiragana.