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A while back I posted a video of a Japanese drum arcade game that I shot in an arcade in Tokyo. That was in the old Alt+Games site, so here's the re-run.
After that incident a lot has happened in the drum game scene. Taiko no Tatsujin has been available in the western world for a while (athough I like the songs in the Japanese versions more) and more importantly the genre of band games has introduced the plastic drum sets into our living rooms.
I got the chance to play the drums on Guitar Hero World Tour a while ago at my friends Juha's and M's place. While my performance was nothing of the sort featured in the video below, I could immediately see the charm of drum-set-banging gameplay. To me the whole thing seemed to be a lot closer to the real thing than the guitar playingin Guitar Hero. Actually when I think about it the interface is exactly the same as in a digital drum set (minus the quality).
That said, it's really hard for me to get so excited about the drum set games as to actually get a drum set controller myself. The music games are essentially recycling the same concept over and over with only a few changes. I'm getting bored with the basic concept a bit. Something really cool needs to surface for me to sacrifice the space needed for the drum kit in my living room.
But, here's the video, please enjoy. Pretty sophisticated, ain't it?
