oh how i love barely disguised shovelware adpests

this is genuinely one of the saddest things to happen on the taiko no tatsujin franchise and the fact they shut taiko.bui.pm for this absolute cashgrab is really frustrating, this is just the animal crossing pocket camp version of taiko no tatsujin but somehow even worse.

first of all, you can only play for free about 4 limited songs who reset after an certain amount time and if you want to play for more than 10 minutes then fuck you!! you need to sit through a 3 minute ad of an fucking illegal scammy online cassino to earn 3 play-tickets per day!! and if you want more then i bet you have to money to pay for it!!!!!

second of all, i love how it completely fucks over the gameplay and just core mechanics overall, im sincerely curious how namco managed to make a non-gacha rhythm game pay to win, if you want better scores you need to put some clothes on! and how do you earn clothes may you ask, by playing (something you need to pay to do) or by just paying for them with no gameplay involved instead of actually getting good at the game, not only that but now you also have "powerups" who can basically completely erase the drumroll and big notes from the game, two core mechanics for the game to actually be fun to play that have been an staple of the franchise since the very start, but of course you also need to pay for them! because why wouldnt you

i sincerely do NOT understand the point of this game, why would you pay to play an underwhelming watered down version of the game when you can just pay to play it the normal way at the arcade? why was this game even made in the first place? for the poor who want to play taiko no tatsujin portably but dont have the money to pay for the game and consoles?? you can literally just download an taiko no tatsujin portable rom and put it on ppsspp and boommmmm you can play taiko no tatsujin but GOOD for FREE, and also if it was really made for the people who dont have enough money to buy the console games when why would they add an unnecessary amount of microtransactions just to play the game?
i know im going way too deep with this and this was just an obvious attempt at an easy cheap cashgrab by namco by just doing what everyone is doing now (see jubeat and reflec beat by konami way back in 2010, two mobile versions of arcade games that only had 3 songs available for free and if you wanted more you needed to pay for the song packs) but even though it still just makes me sad, atleast it has a cute interface i guess

i genuinely think its funny how everyone collectively switched to the "every 3d pokemon game is le bad!!!" mentality ever since sword and shield was released because "le poketuber said so!!!!" god how about you actually play the games and develop your own individual opinion instead of following the other sheeps, xy is a good and fun game and no one can change my mind, a good gimmick, good map, with a pretty solid dex "b-but story is le bad!!!" yea sherlock like every pokemon game, the story was never the focus and the only mainline game that actually tried to create a solid story (pokemon black and white) got fucking MASSACRED

im a huge fan of the pripara franchise and i would go as far to say that it has changed me as a person, and as a fan i was extremely hyped for this game, waiting for what seemed like neverending release date delays, after FIFTH DELAYS, the game finally releases, and since it was only released 2 years after its original release date one would assume that the game would be polished and at least working properly, like what happened with uma musume, a game that got postponed several times but ever since release has been one of the greatest f2p mobile games and the income it received confirmes so, but of course not, the game released with so many bugs that it was actually unplayable, you had to wait 6 whole minutes on the loading screen to get to a server just so you cant even finish a song because the servers would kick you out on the middle of it, not the mention the amount of bugs that happened during the mvs, my idol would be t posing inside of someones random idol with distorted music during a concert and it would only stop when i closed the game and waited another 6 minutes to get inside of it, the first day experience was absolutely horrendous, so much that they had to follow it with a one week maintenance to fix it, and even so it didnt really do much, atleast we got 1 million coins for the first day problems

this is not really something that actually bothers me but it is great to mention that the graphics and models havent changed and they keep using the 3ds game models even though those games were released on 2015, and its pretty clear that they could improve them based on the waccha primagi arcade models and THAT ALSO the gameplay of the concerts is the exact same as the switch game with little to no difference

not to mention but the game overrall just isnt fun, theres something lacking, it just doesnt feel good to play it at all, its boring and just really ugly, the only good thing to come out of this game is the anime, the other console pripara games are just better overrall and it wouldnt surprise me if the game ended its server after just one year, though i really do hope it has a long life, even if personally dislike it, its still good to see something in the pripara franchise doing good