Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · November 26, 2024

Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival Review, Welcome to Omiko City, the stage for Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival! A city full of everyone’s favorite Taiko elements is gathered into one town! Together with DON-Chan, meet your new friend, Kumo-kyun, and aim to become a Taiko Master! 76 songs including Gurenge, Feel Special, and Into the Night are available in the game! As well as Improvement Support that helps you with upping your drumming skills!

Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival Review Pros:

Decent cartoon-like graphics.
4.41GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Taiko trophies are the game’s own achievement system.
Rhythm action gameplay.
Drum controller support. Which is good as the controller is for this game exclusively.
Opening tutorial section for your selected control type.
In-game cutscenes and interactions can be fast-forwarded and skipped.
Many note types from blue and red drums, a drum roll, and a balloon and mallet.
Taiko points are earned from Taiko mode and used to buy rewards.
Don coins are a different currency and are used in shops for items.
End of song breakdown showing hit counters for good, OK, and bad timings, your score, and max combo.
Playing on the controller is absolutely fine, in fact, it’s comfortable and easy to grasp.
Excellent vibration integration.
The rewards map looks like a Battlepass bit is actually how the game progresses, landing on squares gives rewards or advances the story.
Three ways to play – Taiko land is a mini-game collection, Thunder Shrine is the main mode, and you have online multiplayer.
The in-game store lets you buy outfits, toys, instruments, and items like name plates and greetings.
Your room is where you can edit your character, use the six-character save slots, change game settings, and change things like greetings and name tags.
Calibration mode for both the controller and the drum controller.
Three controller layouts for each controller and the drum controller.
You have an overall player level and you earn exp from playing songs.
Rewatch any cutscenes or interactions within your room.
Two to four local multiplayer support.
The main game mode supports local co-op play.
Fast loading times.
Four song difficulties – Easy, normal, hard, and extreme.
Five playlist slots each holding a maximum of 100 songs.
Improvement support is a cool feature that lets you select areas of a song to practice.
Best Replay can save up to 300 before it starts over sorting them.
Has a lot of songs from Anime, and many Namco games.
All songs have a star rating based on a 1 to 10 rating with 10 being absolutely insane.
The songs are put into categories – game music, Namco original, pop, Anime, Vocaloid music, variety, and classical.
You can pause mid-game.
The play has many animations and flashes going off, you can see your score, combos, and song timer.
Very accessible even if you have never played these games before.
It can get very addictive.

Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Festival Review Cons:

Not sure if intentional but all trophies are written in Japanese.
Getting disconnected online (your fault or not) gives you a hefty penalty.
A lot of loading screens.
Initially, you have so much to take in as every menu has a series of pop-ups and interactions.
When booting modes for the first time, if you have or buy the music pass you will then get a lengthy in-game download and cannot do anything else until it finishes.
You don’t get a countdown when returning to the game after pausing.

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