Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack

Nintendo WireTom Brown

8/10

The Taiko no Tatsujin series has been making noise on consoles, handhelds, and in arcades for almost two decades, and for the most part it's consisted of cute

COGConnectedJames Reid

78/100

About a month or so back I picked up a cute little drumming game called Taiko No Tatsujin: Drum N’ Fun while it was on sale for Nintendo Switch. It was my first introduction to the Taiko series and as a past Guitar Hero/Rock Band fan, I really enjoyed my experience with the game, but felt like one thing was lacking—a story mode. Conveniently enough after a few days of playing Drum N’ Fun, I learned that the next entry in the series was coming out in just a few weeks, and that it would be a full-fledged RPG. Needless to say, I was excited to give the Taiko No Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack a...

Video ChumsMary Billington

7.7/10

Bandai Namco's wacky Taiko no Tatsujin series sees another couple Japanese releases make their way west and this Rhythmic Adventure Pack provides a gameplay experience different to what most fans of the franchise would expect.

RPGSiteJames Galizio

7/10

The latest Taiko no Tatsujin delivers what it sells on the tin, but little else.

GameSpewKim Snaith

7/10

Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack is a lot of fun. It’s a unique combination of rhythm game and RPG, presented in a way that only a Japanese video game series could be. It’s over-the-top, silly and in-your-face, but that’s what makes it so endearing. It would benefit from better tutorials for newcomers to the series, and songs should be more widely randomised so you don’t end up battling to the same tracks again and again. Even so, this pair of games is the sort of thing you can’t help but play with a big, silly grin on your face.

Screen RantLaura Gray

6/10

In both Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack stories, players advance by battling using the rhythm mini-game as a fighting system. Players wander through a map as Don the taiko drum, and when they encounter an enemy or engage in combat, their performance in the rhythm mini-game determines the damage their opponent takes.  The struggle however, is that often a map only contains four songs for the copious random enemy encounters the player will face trying to get from one objective to the next. This quickly becomes grating, especially because Taiko Mode allows players to sample the ample i...

Game SkinnyJosh Broadwell

5/10

Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack is a novelty game, and like most novelties, it's shallow with short-lived appeal.

Nintendo World ReportBrett Posner-Ferdman

5/10

While it is impressive Taiko No Tatsujin Rhythmic Adventure Pack was made available to the Western market for the first time, it ultimately feels like a lackluster package that only a handful of people will get enjoyment out of. The story mode is too simple and repetitive to be worthwhile, while the Taiko mode’s minimal localization and lack of translations feel half baked, especially to those who don’t speak Japanese. While Rhythmic Adventure 2 is clearly the better game, neither one comes with a recommendation, especially on a system that is home to some fantastic RPGs and rhythm games.

GameTyrant Dean Clark

0/10

Definitely a great addition to the Western world’s Switch library!