Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! Will Receive Drum Set And Physical Release In Europe

So, uh, what about North America? Can I finally be able to beat on a drum that wouldn't make my neighbors complain (as much)? Bandai Namco is teasing me too hard now ;(

Dope!!

That is me waiting for EU release now.

Yush! Now if only we could get donkey konga 2.

Can Namco release a game physical on the Switch that is not Dragon Ball*, please? *In North America

This sounds like NOE helping with the costs of bringing it over while NOA not bothering

Hmm....
The songlist was same as Japanese version.
Well, actually All the songs are Fine to me (Wow, Yokai Exercise 1 ! ).
Except....
There is Only ONE song that i really Hate most.
If only i can Skip / Ignore completely that one song to being Unplayable....

I was not believing when it was reported here that this wasn’t happening.

It made no sense.

They know what their fan base would want...

I was shot down.

It’s gettimg the full release.

It was the only logical thing for them to do.

@darkswabber I assume you mean 3? NA and EU got Donkey Konga 2.

@Stocksy
"It was the only logical thing for them to do."

FAIRY GOD PARENTS !!!

@asez So far this isn’t being released physically in NA just like Little Nightmeres and the One Piece games weren’t released physically in the NA.

@ElekidDude there was a 2? TIL.

So the lists misses 2 tracks from Japan, 1 namco and the evangelion tune.

I can live with that, my vita import has them both.

time to find a way to have UK/EU stuff to be ship here in america.

@darkswabber Yep, though the song selection wasn't as good as the first game's. There was even a 3rd game, but it was only released in Japan.

You're almost there Namco, just spill the beans for NA and my money is waiting for you once I got out of poverty.

Europe in general has a greater appreciation for Japanese things than US, so I'm not really surprised when releases like this happen.

Good for them. Now just announce a NA release of the drum and we're all good.

Otherwise, I'll be skipping it entirely.

@ieatdragonz import it, I live in the UK and I get plenty of imports from the US for physical editions we don't get. Game beyond borders!

This is lame. I shouldn't have to import from Japan or Europe to get the game physically.

YouTube has a theme song?

Well this is tempting.

Those in the US can import the drum and a physical copy of the game through sites such as Amazon.jp. The process is actually really easy. I don’t know any Japanese and do everything through the app. Even after shipping the game and drum cost approximately $60 each.

Apparently a patch that adds English to the Japanese version will be released soon.

@Anti-Matter You can set songs to favourites so essentially you could favourite them all except that one and show only your favourites

Man, not gonna lie, bit gutted I imported lol but very happy for those that don't have to now! And the drum is the icing on the cake!! This (and the track list) just goes to show that the Switch isn't seen as a purely casual machine.

Still wondering if the Moana and Ghibli stuff will be sung in Japanese or English though.

Excellent, I'll get this if it's not too pricey

@DABYX
Wait, is that any Option to DeSelect Unwanted songs to Not appear during gameplay ??
Oh, btw.
Moana song was Japanese in Japan / Asia version.

@bluemujika Honestly, its mostly annoying the "organization" side of me rather than the gamer side of me. I just want to know if its going to have a physical so I can put it on the list

@MrToad The real weird thing is that a lot of the games from now on are going to be physical. Stuff like Namco Museum Arcade Pac, One Hero's Justice, Dragon Ball FighterZ (which like you said is expected) and Tales of Vesperia. This is the odd one out for the second half of the year, which is a real shame.

Great news, that'll save me a wedge not having to import the drum

@Anti-Matter Yea I know Moana is Japanese in the JP version but curious what it will be for PAL. Looks like probably the same?!

Sort of. It's a kind of strange way of doing it (I'm guessing it works but not tried yet though).
I know you can make the song list show only genres like "pop" "anime" etc and "favourites"
So if you made everything a favourite except that one song it shouldn't show it.

Totally miffed I can’t switch interface language without flopping my system language each time.

And that’s one more copy of the game they have sold with this news.

Wow.. this game went from "completely off my radar" to "MUST BUY!".

I think the Drum controller looks kind of weird (in a good way) and makes for interesting gameplay.

@ieatdragonz I feel you, I too know the insomnia caused by OCD (Obsessive Collectors Disorder)

The one time I want an Amazon affiliate link and there isn't one!

I imported the JPN version and the drum and it’s great. I thought the song list would change when they brought it overseas. I was willing to double dip if that’s the case.

I hope Bandai Namco realizes that North America is the Switch's strongest market, not Europe or Japan.

It's great that the European market will finally get a Taiko game, but missing out of North America will severely limit the series' potential in the west.

@westman98 it looks like Nintendo Europe are behind this considering switch players in North America are in the same boat as PS4 players. NOA and Sony not too bothered.

@kobashi100
If true...

Then curse you, Reggie!!

So can I just use my Gamecube Bongos together with the Gamecube adapter on my Switch?

Same tracks as the Japanese version?
I guess it’s easier for them to just release a straight version but some of the tracks doesn’t make any sense outside Japan.

I mean, tracks like the Japanese version of TT or the song from back number (is that band even known outside Japan?) but specially Hikakin’s YouTube song... they’re all fine in Japan but make little sense outside...

@Rayquaza2510 All the songs are there. Evangelion is on the list.

I'm buying this just so I can play TT <3